The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-06-29
SEVEN WE'RE KILLED.
Result Of the Plunge of the Train
Through the Trestle.
ONE MORE SERIOUSLY HURT.
OF the Nineteen Others Injured n II
Believed All WIN Rsoovsr-rhs
wreck Was Complete. De-
stroyiug Much Property.

Kansas City. June 2s.-seyen cofilns
were forward 10 S. Louis yesterday
from Missouri City They contained
the remains Of Saturday nights wreck
on the Wabash road
A corrected list Of the dead IL as fol-
lows:
Joseph Mills. postal clerk. st. Louis.
o. NJ. Smith postal clerk, s. Louis.
Gustave smith postal clerk, st.
Louis.
Charles Winters. postal clerk. ST.
Louis
r. W. Brink. postal clerk. 81. Louis.
Edward Grlndrob. baggage master.
St. Louis.
Charles r. Grostley brakeman. 81.
Louis
The conductor OF the train. @. c.
Copeland Of S. Louis. who was report
ed among the dead. Is stlll alive. lie
has been removed 10 the railway hos
pltal at Moberly With a fractured
skull and several broken ribs he lin
gers between lie and death but the
surgeon expresses a hope that he viii
recover. Conductor Copeland was sup
posed 10 be- dead when taken from the
wreck and his body, with a handker-
chief drawn over the face. was ar
ranged In a row with the seven dead
corpscs. a few minutes later some one
observed a sign Of life and he was
quickly transferred 10 a streirher and
given oyry possible attention.
OF the 10 others injured no one Is
IN a critical condition.
Death probably came 10 al least four
OF the 1--WE unfortunate mail clerks al
most instantly. Their car pitched head
hrst through the break In the trestle
and they must have been drowned
while unconscious
The remains Of the four were car
rIod from the wreck and were recov-
cred some distance down the stream.
There were signs OF life In the body
OF the NTH mail clerk when rescued,
but he died 10 few minutes.
In ordinary weather the creek under
the trestle Is dry. but Saturdays storm
bad greatly swollen e. A floating
bridge struck the trestle carrying away
the supports Ia the center.
A farmer noticed the perilols con
d.tlon 90 the trestle and tried % dag
the train but owing 90 the fercsness OF
the storm the engineer evidently could
not see the signal which the farmer so
funt.Cally waved across the track
The locomotive struck the trcstle. a
moment later the disaster was pre-
teuied Ia al its horrors Tho engine
/ passed over but the tender went
/ through with the iumhinr bridge.
| The baggage car topplod over on its
side while the mail car. which follow
Cd. pitched into the stream. end FIRST
Every llfa in this ear was lost The
smoker. next behind. followed. 10 was
ln This car that Conductor Copeland
was r.dlne The other occupants es-
capped serious injury The chair cor.
next behind. also plunged iLto the
mass of wreckage and an lts passen-
/ gers were thrown 90 the forward end
in an iudescrihablo heap How they
escaped with NO more serious injuries
Is a mystery The front cud OF the
sleeper. next In the rear. jammed into
the prutrudlug end OF the rear chair
car and was thus prevented from fol-
lowing the others into the chafm. The
two Excelsior Springs coaches 10 the
rear remained on the track
Tho postal authorities report that
| probably nearly an OF the mall carried
on the train was lost or destroyed
The pouches are supposed 10 have been
open 90 the time OF the wreck The
car was So broken and splintcred
that most Of the mail ioated On. prob
ably 90 drift into the Missouri river
and be- lost The Wabash train each
evening carries all of Kansas City's
afternoon mail for the east and il Is al.
WAYS heavy and valuable.