Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-09-10
TEN EMPLOYEES WERE KILLED
Fifteen Hurt, Some Of Whom will
Probably Die,

worst disaster that has occurred or
that system in many years. Twelve
emoloyes' were killed outright or
died Of their injuries, and Is Others
were more or less injured. The cost
of the wreck to the railway is estima-
ted at 100000.
AS the passengers and trainmen re,
covered from the shock Of the explo
sion, they looked for the injured and
dead. Far down in the heaps of de-
bris sounded wailing voices of men
pleading for aid. While the rescuers
were working to get at the unfortu-
mates, fire broke out in the wreckage
of the toward coaches, and a cry for
water went up. Water tanks were
torn from their fastenings in the
coaches that could be entered, and
blood -besmeared men carried them
oyer broken timbers to quench the
fast-spreading flames. The dead and
mangled bodies of four victims were
dragged to the grass beside the track.
After herculean efforts, the flames
were finally subdued, and the work of
raccna rnada noro aacv
Engineer Brannan was found under
his engine, dead. Engineer Nate
Hollister was thrown 80 feet from his
engine and was picked up dead. En-
gineer Frisbie was picked up some
distance from the track, fatally in-
jured. Benjamin Walter, his fireman,
was terribly mangled. Shuriey and
Gonzalla, firemen on No. were
b adly injured, and died after being re
moved from the wreck.
The four postal clerks on NJ. !
were all found. They were r. o.
Nc Gee, w. E. Jones, NJ. j. McGlade,
Claude Holiday, all Of Kansas City.
holidays legs we're broken and was
injured internally. M. j. McGlade
was crushed and bruised about the
head and body and he died shortly be-
fore midnight. Jones' legs are
mashed and his head is badly cut.
McGee's legs are cruShsd.
The postal clerks on the fast mail
were:A. Dorm and J. f. Sauer. The ex-
press messenger was killed and 9. w.
Van Cleye, brakeman, is fatally in
jured. After time relief train ar
rived and the injured were taken to
Topeka.
William j. Bryan was interviewed
as to his experience in the collision.
He said: 81 have travelled thousands
of miles on railroads and / was never
in a wreck before. l did not feel the
shock very severely where l was, but
from the way things looked, cannot
see why we were not all killed. The
scene here presented is the most ter
rible have ever seen. 1t has made
an impression on me that cannot
leave me in my lifetime"
sis it true you were the first man to
reach the scene from your car and go
to the rescue ?" he was asked.
"Please don't say anything about
that" Bryan replied with a deprecat-
ing gesture. From the passengers
present it was learned that Bryan was
the first person to push forward to the
assistance of the victims, that he as
sisted to carry the first body recoV-
cred, and SO long as there was any ne
cessity he was foremost in the work
of rescue. Mr.. Bryan and David
Leahy, a Topeka newspaper man, were
in the smoking coach of the vest
bound train. The two men jumped
out of the same window without
their hats or baggage, which were af-
terwaIds burned, and escaped practi-
caIly without scratch. Bryan
reached Emporia about midnight and
remained at the hotel until morning,
when he resumed his journey.
Clande Hollister, of Topeka, had
both legs broken and shattered in
half dozen places. When the rescuers
laid him on the grass beside the track