The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-27
DOWN IN A CHASM
Continued From - First Page.

/
were piled over him. The brakeman
| and news agent were In the smoker
| and went down with 1t.
SURVIVORS, STORY.
John Ennis travelling salesman for
rear car of the train, which was the
only one which escaped injury. 1t
| was likewise the only car in which
none Of the passengers were injured.
| Mr.. Ennis had an interview with a
farmer who had come from Missouri
! City in the evening and was waiting
at the place where the wreck oc-
CURED to flag the train. He claimed
to have waived a flag on the track.
but, owing to the terrific rain, the
engineer was unable to see the sig
nal. Mr.. Ennis said the wreck oc-
Cured at 7:05 o'clock. The engine
passed over the trestle, which broke
| Immediately afterwards, and the ten
der, together with the front or
backward into the gorge. The farmer
with whom Mr.. Ennis talked, said
that at 8 o'clock there was practically
no water in the gorge, but at the
! time Of the wreck it was a raging
! torrent Of ten feet or more in depth
The farmer said the bridge was clear
ly unsafe, which had impelled him to
stand in the storm in an attempt
1 to flag the train. There were no
trainmen left unkilled on the side Of
the gorge on which most of the cars
were left SO far as Mr.. Ennis knows,
the engineer and fireman being on
the other side. The passengers were
| left to take independent action rescu-
ing the victims.
One of the most important things,
and one which secured the safety of
the remaining passengers on the
train, was the tagging of a freight
! train which followed the passenger
| train about ten minutes. This freight
train was tagged by passengers 800
feet from the wreck. Mr.. Ennis said
! a passenger in the train estimated
that there were at least forty pas
sengers in the smoking car, and that
not more than ten were rescued on
this side of the gorge. Most of the
| smoker passengers, if they were
saved, were found on the other side.
! 1t was generally believed by the pas
| Sengers with whom Mr.. EMS had
| talked that very many Of the passen-
| gers of the smoker had been killed, but
| no one could give an estimate of the
| number. The neWsboy and conductor
/ were both in the front smoking car at
| the time of the wreck and both are
| believed to have been instantly killed.
! Mr.. Ennis thought a conservative esti-
mate of the number killed would be
| twenty, and that it was more likely
| less than that number. The mail clerk
and express messenger, he thought,
We're undoubtedly killed.
Edwin Zea, Of Kansas City, and c..
| w. Harbold, travelling salesman for
Emery, Bird, Thayer & Co., were the
men who tagged the approaching
freight train. Both agreed with Mr..
Ennis in their accounts Of the wreck
and estimates of the number killed. On
arriving at depot both took luncheon
at the depot lunch stand, and neither
seemed to take any credit for having
saved their fellow passengers from the
catastrophe of a double wreck, in
which many must have been killed but
| for the forethought of these two men.
| Both said they did not see a trainman
after the wreck and were of the opin-
! ion that all, except the engineer, fire
man and Pullman conductor were
killed. The freight train, they said, was
about ten minutes behind the passenger
train. Neither Mr.. Zea nor Mr.. Har-
bold would venture any estimate on
the loss Of life, which both agreed
, would probably nearly, If not be as
! great as Ennis had stated
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Lee w. Campbell, Of Kansas City,
| was in the rear car. He said
I'VE hardly felt the shock. 1 should think
| there were at least ten or twelve killed from
! the reports / have from the passengers on
| the other cars. The baggageman and mail
agent were undoubtedly killed. The mail car.
| baggage car and smoker are down in the
water on the other side of the gorge. 1 think
| the gorge was about fifteen feet from the
! top of the trestle. On this side of the gorge
| the sleeper which was behind the chair car
| In the train ran under it and the Excelsior
springs, or second smoker, is over the chair
! car The front of the second smoker is
| broken IN, and two people in that car were
injured. l heard passenger who passed
through the chair car early In the evening
say after the wreck that it was filled with
] travelling men,"
II. T. Dillon, attorney of Topeka, with
his wife and son and servant, were in
the sleeping car en- route to New York.
He said no part Of the sleeping car
was under water in the gorge 1t was
standing on end and the passengers
| escaped by climbing through the win
| DOW NO one in the sleeper was hurt.
| MI Dillon was unable to tell how many
persons were in the sleeper, but said
/ that estimates of five made by other
| passengers were too low and that there
| were at least eight or nine persons
Mr.. Dillon was scratched on the face
| but the other members Of his party
/ showed no evidence whatever of having
| been three cars deep in a train wreck.
! Dennis Sullivan, postcffice inspector
| with headquarters in st. Louis, was on
the Excelsior Springs smoker, the front
| end Of which was smashed up and two
| OF the passengers of which were injur-
| ed. He said one of the passengers in
| Jured is liquor dealer of Excelsior
| Springs, but he did not know the name
! OF the other man. The shock, Mr. Sulli-
van said, was sufficient to throw all the
! passengers of the front Excelsior
| Springs car from their seats Miss
| Nellie Marrick, of Carrollton, Mo-, was
In the first chair car, but escaped unin-
| JUred. Her companion, Miss Alice
! Dusk, also of Carroll, was severely
| bruised about the left side of the head
and arm, and shoulder. Miss Merrick
| said that J. w. Smith, of Brunswick
| was the only man who took any part
In rescuing the ladies in the first chair
| car, so far as she knew, and that he
! carried several of them out of the car,
| including herself and Miss Dusk
| The wife and child of Rev. DR.. North
rup, who were passengers on the train,
| escaped injury. Rev. T. p. Haley, of
Kansas City, was in the last car with
said:
It all came so quickly, and without the
| slightest warning, that it Is difficult TO give
| connected story of the terrible affair. We
had reached pont about mile this side of
| Missouri City when, without moment S
warning, the bridge gave way in a moment
! and the train was a wreck. The engine and
! the tender passed over the bridge. The bag
gage car, the smoker, the mail and the
chair went down. The sleeper was thrown
| under the chair car and the baggage car was
| thrown almost on end upon the top of the
| ether cars at an angle of fully 80 degrees,
+ THE TRIUMPH OF Love