The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
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SEY i y ES llST. Z.
e. ppalino Railway Dis aster Near
disso curl City, M ;sS


sen gsrss = receive Severe In ju- i 5S5
ries--D etails Of the Mishap1. 81
- $5f;.
81 Kansas City, N 8. June 60 est.
bound passenger train IN Is. IS ON the
Wabash railway / Wi ich left X ansas CITY
At $3.50 o'clock saturdn night, crashed
through q bridge over Way les creek. 11,
miles west of M issouri CITY. 1T seven
O'clock i 55g 4. S,.
correct list Of the dead ID as fol-
lows: w s.. M Ills, postal clerk, st.
Louis; Q. Smi til. postal clerk ST.
Louis; Gustaye "A. Smith. postal clerk.
ST. Louis; Charles Winters. postal clerk.
st. Louis; -. w. Brink, postal clerk, st.
Louis: Edward Grindroo, bagga gemas-
ter, st. Louis; Charles P. Greasle,yv..
brakeman, ST. Louis. .5 b ..s
The conductor Of the train.G 9,
Copeland, Of st. Louis, who was report
ed among the dead, Il still alive. He
was removed Saturday morning to the
railroad hospital at Moberly. With 4
fractured skull and several broken ribs
ne fingers between life and death. but
the surgeons express hope that he will
recover. Conductor Copeland was sup
posed to be dead when taken from the
wreck and his body, with handker-
chief down over the face, was ranged in
row with the seven, corpses. A few
minutes later some one observed sign
of life and he was quickly transferred
to a stretcher and given every possible
attention. S.,E% = =, = =, .>:ss3 {s r.
All Indications are that death came
to at least four of the five unfortunate
mail clerks almost instantaneouslv.
Their car pitched end first through the
break in the trestle, and thew must
have been drowned in the raging stream
while in an unconscious condition. The
remains of the four were CARRIED fro,,,
the wreck and were recovered some dis
lance down the stream. There were
signs of life ia the body of the f,f+h =, ~
clerk when rescuers DRAGGED him frora
the wreck, but he died few minutes
later on the bank Of the creek =
of the 10 others injured No, o - t. - ,
critical condition. Among a,l thera i.
not one broken limb. thonoh NAM 20 -
them were thrown three-ouartera OF The
length of the coaches in which +bev
were riding. Mrs. w. ii. Wilkinson ~
Kansas City, is the most seriouslv 49,
Two small bones of her left hand 80
broken and she suffered severe lacara~
ton of the Thigh as well AZ hr,,;soo o,ho,,4
the face and neck. The wound. - 800
of the others are trivial. - - : ~''
As the train struck tho +ros+,. -
~ -, 49, SA1oeAS ~
the tremendous yolnme - 1vo+ar 4hot
was flowing beneath u, Tbo a,a,ss
passed over safely. hit tho s+r,af,ns
went down beneath the mail o.rand 49,
tender was broken loose fro,n 80 80.
CINE and fell off the track on it, sida
The mail car went down into tho uo+ar
the express cor followed. each "a ll;nr
on it's side; the chair oar tinneG
down into the chasm, and as the rear
end raised up the front end of the slean.
er went up and It stood m end ~.
lower end rrindinp and cr,,sh;nr ~
mail and baggage cars beneath IL
+ The front end nf.+ho s,a.r.I
over the choln, h,,+ ~ 49, ~, "a ou'
~ -+be conJi,nn 80 ~ 80. ne.u ~ pace
snr;nr. car.s he E hina. ~. IAe a:.lI
hapnened during one - ~ ~. a..
rainstorm. ever seen IN +hat aa,,n.ss.
It was accom- In nied hv . +r.nann l.y
roll Of thunder and tbe n,os+ v,u;d ;sh4
ming. The clements and The horr;h'a
nature, Of the accidan,. 1,;na, -
maks't one OF me most terrifying sights
ize what had happened the cries Of the
injured f3lled 4ho o;r - = =
AS soon as Engineer Carlisle rea1,zad
what had happened he started as fast al
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