Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-28
WRECK ON WABASH ROAD.
a ST. Louis Express PlungeS Through
a ThreSlle.
A niinding Hainstorm with Pools OF
Thundcr Renders the Scene One
of Intense Horror.

OIL hntense Horror.
KANsAs CITY, Mo, June 27.-5even
collins were forwarded to st. Louis
today from Missouri City. They con-
tanned the remains OF the victims OF
last nights wreck on the Wabash
road. A corrected lis. OF the dead
70 llowt:
w. 8. Mills, postal clerk, st. Louis;
o. NJ. Smith. postal Gle rk. Ss. I,oulf;
GustAve A. smith, postal clerk, 81.
LJuis; CnarleS Winters, postal CLERK,
81. Louis; +. w. Brink, postal clerk,
81. Louis; Edward Grindrodo, bag
gageman, ST. Louis; Charles p. Greas-
ley, brakeman, 81. Louis.
The cond uctor OF tue train @. G..
Cope aod OF st. Louis, who was II.
poiteu last night among the dead, Il
stili alive. He was removed this
morning TO the railroad hospital ct
Miberly. With fractured skull and
| several broken ribs, he lingers between
HE and neaib, but the surgeons ex.
press hope that he will recover. Con-
| uucior Copeland was supp ossd to be
| dead when takea from the wreck, and
! his body, with . handkerchief drawn
over the face, was ranged in row
with the seven corpBes. A few min
utes later someone observed sign OF
| life, and he was quickly transferred TO
a stretcher ami given every possible
| attention.
OF the nineteen others injured,
not one ID in critical condition.
Among them all there Ia not a broken
limb. though many of them were
thrown three.quarters of the length OF
the coaches in which they were sit
Ing.
Mrs. w. Ii. Wilkinson o! Kansas
City 10 the most serious hurt. Two
small bones OF her lett hand are broken
anu she suffered severe lacsration OF
the thigh, as we'll as bruises about the
face anu neck. The wounds OF most
Of the others are trivial.
All indications are that death came
= q. least four OF the five unfortunate
mali clerks almost instantly. Their
car pitched end first through the
break in the trestle, and they must
have been drowned in the raging
stream while in an unconscious coudi.
tion. The remains OF the four were
| carried from the wreck and were re-
covered some distance down the
stream. There were signs OF lie in
the body OF the fifth mail clerk W hen
rescuers dragged him from the wreck,
bur he died In few minutes later on
the bank OF the creek.
Last night IL was feared tn ere were
more bodies In the stream, but care
tul search today proved that the ia.
talitles were limited to those already
named.
THE ACCIDENT.
KANSAS CITY, June 26.--The s..
LOUIS express on the Wabash road,
which lett here at $50 this evening,
plunged through trestle at Missouri
City, Missouri, at five minutes alter
Z o'clock, carrying down the entire
train with the exception OF the rear
car. The gorge whicn a few hours
previous was practically empty room
became raging torrent by tremen-
dous downpour Of rain, and the siruc-
ture was weakened.
There were twenty-five passengers
in the chsir.car. In the intense con-
fusion that ensued IL became impossi.
ble to estimate the dead or wounded.
The train left Kansas City at $50
q. m. anu was composed OF mail car,
baggage ami express. smoker, chair.
car, sleeper and two coaches for Ex-
celsior Syringe. The trestle At which
the disaster occurred 10 abou; two
miles south OF Missouri CITY and 10
built on n curve. AS the train struck
the tres,le the framework gave way
beneath the weight, evidently having
been weakened by the tremendous
volume OF water flowing beneath II,
an unusually heavy rain having
swollen the email stream TO torrent.
The engine and tender passed over
safely, but the mail md express cars
topped over, esch falling on the aide.
The chair-par plunged down into tue
chasm end frat, and the coach follow
lug also went Ia end firsi, grinding
and crushing tho mail AMI exp!ess
cara beneath. The front end VI the
,leeper projected out over the chasm,
mt the two Excelsior Springs COACHES
In the rear held II upon the trace.
The accident happened during oEe
oi the heaviest raInstor ms evor seen In
tnat COUNTY,. 1t was accompanied by
a tremendous roll Of thunder and the
most vivid lightning. The elements
anu tho horrible nature OF tho aeci-
dent comliped TO make II one VI the
most terrifying sights Imaginable.
Before anything could realize what
had happened, the ories OF the injured
allied the air. Shrieks and shouts Tor
help came from all sides. sumo ole
sbouted the wreck was on fire ana
n, q her ore snoutsd that a freight
ltr.,n w.s following closely. One oil