The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-02
Fatal Wreck ON the Mo. Pacific
at Yates Center.
Engineer Glover Dead and Fire
man Rowan Will Die.
FIVE CARS BURNED.
Freight Cars Run on Main Line
From Siding.
East Bound Passenger Crashes
Into Them.

Kansas City, Aug. z--AS the reSulI
of a wreck on the Missouri Pacific at
Yates Center at O'Clock Sunday morn
ing Engineer Jasper Glover is dead
and Fireman C. Rowan is lying scalded
and mutilated at the Missouri Pacific
hospital here and will probably die.
Baggageman Guy Myers, Conductor
Gus Anderson and Porter Bob Smith
(colored) were badly bruised, though
not seriously injured. Fire caught the
wreck and the baggage car and four
freight cars, that were the cause of the
wreck, were burned. The engine and
tender were ruined.
The wrecked train was passenger.
1t left Wichita in the evening and ran
to Yates Center, where it regularly
meets the train from Coffeyville, and
from which place the two trains come
on to Kansas City as one.
The fault seems to have been with
freight crew that had been switching in
the Yates Center yards about a mile
south of the depot. In some way four
or five freight cars had either been
pushed out on the main line and left
there or had run down from the side
track.
The east bound passenger train was
running at its full speed, about 80 miles
an hour, when the engineer noticed that
the freight cars were on the main line.
He did all he could to stop his engine,
but he was too near the cars, and be-
fore either he the fireman could
jump they had crashed into the cars
and telescoped them.
Passengers ana seat cushions were
piled in heap atthe front ends of the
two passenger coaches The baggage
car was next to the engine, and Bag
gageman Myers was bruised some by
falling baggage. Conductor Anderson
was in one of the coaches, and his head
was driven through a window and his
face and scalp badly cut by the glass.
The car next the baggage car was a
com binatiOn smoking car and mail car
Postal Clerk John Nelson was in the
car, but was not hurt.
Almost Immediately after the acct
dent the cars caught fire from Goals
that had been thrown from the engine
f1rebox, and the baggaeman had hard
work to save the baggage, but managed
to get it all out.
Engineer Clover and Fireman Rowan
were thrown into the air and fell a few
feet from each other on the left side of
Glover was almost disembowled, and
Rowan had lost his left foot just above
the ankle. Both were badly cut and
Scalded- The fireman was able to arise
alone, and. imagining that his foot was
simply hurt, went hobbling about in the
dirt and cinders on the stump of his
left leg until he was helped into the
mail car. which was still upright. and
had sat down on a chair.
He went to look at his foot to see how
badly it was hurt and discovered that it
was gone.
MY Cod" he said; why, my foot is
gomez
The engineer was unable to speak. and
soon after the fireman went into a
state of Inconsistencies.
None of the coaches was upset, and
none of the passengers was hurt be-
yond slight bruises and scratches.
The engineer and fireman both live at
EldOrado. Both are married.
Engineer Clover has seven children
and no longer ago than a week one of
his little boys. while playing about the
railroad yards, fell beneath a car and
had both his legs cut off.
The engineer and fireman were SO
badly scalded and cut that it would be
impossible to recognize them.
The Cofeyville train. which reaches
the main line just this side of the wreck
brought them to Kansas City, and they
were taken to the Missouri Pacific hos
pital at Eighth and May streets, where
Glover died at $3.50 last night. Besides
the engineer and fireman, the rest of
the crew lives at Wichita and went
back there after the wreck was cleared
up.
The train was due to reach Kansas
City at a. M, but was some hours
late. The freight cars that burned con-
tanned grain, -four and coal