The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-10
WRECK ON The
SANTA FE ROAD.
Twelve People Are Known to Have
Been Killed,
Beside One Person is Missing and Many
Suffered Injury.
GhouIs DeIve in the Burning
Wreckage and Plumber the
Mail Sacks and Baggage-The
Wreck Costs the Railway One
Hundred Thousand Dollars.

EMPORIA CKan.), Sept. 9. Twelve
known dead, one missing (probapiy in
cinerated) and fourteen seriously IN
jured, two of whom viii likely die, 5
the record of the terrible head-end col
hsion on the Santa Fe as known to-
night. The first lists were mixed be-
cause OF the confusion attending the
wreck, and all day names on the list
of injured have been transferred to that
CT the dead. Even tonight it is not
positively known that the list given
is complete, and it is believed that sew
eral We're burned to death and nothing
left by which they could be recog-
nized. The bodies of eleven have been
taken from the debris, burned beyond
recognition.
William Frisbie of Topeka, engineer
of the bound fast mail, who was
last night reported among the injured,
expired during the day, and Michael
McGlade and K. A. Doran, postal clerks,
were found to have heen wrongly
placed in the list of injured. Nothing
could be found of the remains OF the
Wells-Fargo messenger. J. T. Sauer
A handful Of charred bones taken from
be his. Near them was found his
watch.
Dead: Michael ALcGlade, Kansas City,
postal clerk; ). F. Sauer, Kansas City,
Wells-Fargo express messenger; John
Shirley, Topeka, fireman; r. A. Doran,
Emporia, postal clerk; Nate HOLSTER,
Topeka, fireman; James Brennan, To-
peka, engineer; c. w. Vancleve. brake
man; Ben Walters, st. Joseph, fireman;
- Gonzales, fireman; Dan McKernan,
q tramp; an unknown tramp.
Missing: Harvey Fowler, a farmer of
Emporia.
The injured: J. NJ. Bell Florence, hip
bruised; Alexander Ferguson, Kansas
City, conductor of No. l. hips hurt;
Claude Holiday of Lawrence, express
messenger, legs broken, viii die; John
Dagan, Topeka, face manned; j. T. But
Ter. County Attorney of Chase County,
hip broken; William T. Jones, Kansas
City, leg and arms broken; H. 2. Me
lick, AtchisOn, badly bruised; Phil
Schier, express messenger, Kansas
City, hip bruised; William Patrick,
Kansas City, leg and arm broken; ..
D. Adams, City of Mexico, painfully
bruised; Mike Sweeney, Gainesville,
back hurt; r. O. MCGEE, Kansas City,
postal clerk; E. c. Fletcher, Kansas
City, postal clerk; William Frisbie To-
peka, both legs broken, may die.
Human ghouls delved in the burning
wreckage and plundered the baggage
and mail sacks which were strewed on
the ground. One tried to snatch dia-
mond from the breast of an Emopria
doctor, who, weak and nervous, was
creeping slowly out of the debris. He
had strength enough left to hit the
brute a blow in the face, which made
him turn with curse and sneak away
Mail sacks We're dragged into the cron-
field and rifed.
The report Of the Kansas City Post
office is that practically all of the mail
on both the wrecked Santa Fe trains
was destroyed. One pouch, however,
for Southern California on the west
bound train is said to have been saved.
This train carried a large mail from
New York City to California. Colorado.
New Mexico and Arizona No official
report has been received here.
Trains over the Santa Fe viii be run
by the way of Ottowa for a few days.
The cost of the wreck to the railway is
estimated at 100000 The wrecked
trains were the fast mail, east-bound,
and the California Mexican express,
west bound. Both We're running at the
rate of forty miles an hour or over.
The wreck occurred at 7:30, three
miles east of Emporia, on a small cuI-
vert crossing a dry stream. The culvert
was not more than ten feet wide, and
the foremost engine of the west bound
train had spanned it when the collision
occurred. The embankment approaches
TO this culvert were about ten feet
high This added to the danger.
The conductor of the east-bound train
was ordered to stop at Emporia to meet
the California Mexican train at Lang
seven miles east An order sent
to Lang to the conductor of the west
bound train for him to wait there was
not delivered, and he supposed he was
to pass at Emporia. The east bound
train was hurryfng on to Emporia, the
other to Lang, and met at full speed.
The California train was almost ar
hour late, and owing to Mr.. Bryan's en-
gagement at Burlingame, was crowded
TO the guards with excursionists return
ing home. 1t carried eight passenger
coaches, all crowded.
The conductor and brakeman were
getting their lanterns ready for Empo-
ria, only three miles away. There was
no warning signal. The westbound
train was going around slight curve
when it met the fast mail. There was a
shock, as if the train had been bumped
up against a stone wall. There was ar
explosion, a crashing sound. an uncer-
tain movement Of the coaches. and al
the lights went out Those who were il
the first coach in the westbound train
were left in total darkness, and they
very soon realized the peril OF their Do
sition, for the coach was filled with
steam and smoke.
The westbond train was drawn by
two locomotives. and when the struel
the fast mail all three of the engines
exploded, and tore a hole in the track
SO deep that the smoking car of the
westbound train went on top Of the
wreck Of the three engines and two mai
cars, and balanced there without turn
ing over. Those in this car. who escape
through the windows. came very neal