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heaVy 5cnalr SIfuCk Qlm ana crushed
| his head out of all semblance Of hui
! mainly, while score, of other people
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
| Beckman & Mcknight, was in the
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 Il
| farmer who had come from Missouri
| City in the evening and was waiting
at the place where the wreck oc-
to have waived flag on the track.
| but, owing to the terrific rain, the
engineer was unable to see the sig
nal Mr. Ennis said the wreck &C.
Cured at 1905 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 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
to flag the train. There were no
trainnen 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 Mt I'M
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
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
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,
were undoubtedly killed.
Edwin Zea, of Kansas City, and c..
w. Harbo1d, a 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, i'll
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.. Yea 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:
-, We hardly felt the shock. I should think
there were at least ten or twelve killed from
the reports l 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 7 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 under it and the EyceIsior
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. heard a passenger who passed
through the chair car early in the evening
say after the wreck that it was filled with
travelling men,"
H T. Dillon, attorney of Topeka. with
his wife and son and servant, were in
the sleeping car en- route to New York
lie said no part Of the sleeping car
was under water in the gorge. It was
standing on end and the passengers
escaped by climbing through the win
cow 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
MI. Dillon was scratched on the face
but the other members of his party
showed no evidence whatever of having
peen three cars deep in train wreck.
with headquarters in St Louis. was on
the Excelsior Springs smoker, the front
enc OF which was smashed UP and two
or the passengers of which were injur-
ed He said one of the passengers in
cured 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
his wife, and both escaped injury He
said:
1t all came so quickly and without the
slightest warning, that it is difficult to give
had reached pont about a mile this side of
Missouri City when, without moments
warning, the bridge gave way in moment
and the train was rWrecks The engine and
the tender passed over the bridge The bag
gage car, the smoker, the mail car and tho
chair car went down.. The sleeper was thrown
under the chair car and the baggage car was
thrown almost on end upon the top of the
other cars at an angle of fully 80 degrees