Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-09
Two Fast Passenger Trains Have a Head End
Collision.
ELEVEN OR TWELVE PEOPLE ARE KILLED.
,,,,,.r. are Seriously Hurt-Mr. Bryan
Helped to Garry out the Dead
and Wounded.

badly hurt
The fast mail train going east. and
,bs Mexico California express. west
hound, colided head-on. The Mexico
and california express was pulled by
,,yo locomotives, and when they struck
,ba engine drawing the fast mail the
boilers of all three engines exploded
and tore a hole in the ground so deep
,bot the smoking car of the westbound
,rsiu went in ON top of the three en-
zines and two wrecked mail cars and
Balanced there without turning over
Tbe pnssengors In the smoking car es-
ropad through the windows. The front
oud of this car was cnveoped in n
,1lurns of sitting smoke and steam
balehlng up from the wreck below and
,be rear door was jammed right with
,bc cnr behind The wreck caught fire
rom the engines. The cars in the hole
and the smoking car burned to ashes
IN NO time In climbing from the
smoking car several men fell through
The riffs in the wreck below. and II IL
impossible TO tell whether they es-
caped ar were burned to death.
in westbound train carried eight
coaches and its passengers included
many excursionists who had been to
hear Hon. W. J. Bryan speak at the
county fair at Burlingame.
MIR. BRYAN THERE.
Mr.. Bryan himself was on the train
hut was riding in the rear Pullman
some 400 feet from the cars which were
wrecked. He states that nothing hut
heavy Jolt was experienced by the
passengers in his coach.
Mr. Bryan was one of the noblcst
men in the crowd of rescuers. He
belped to carry out the dead and
lodi md tho g.
ton to their care. One poor fellow
who was badly MANNED called to Mr..
BRYAN and said: II went to hear YOU
today: J am dying now, and want to
shake your hand and say God bless
YOU II you possibly can. Mr.. Bryan.
get me a drink of water"
Mr. Bryan went into the fast mail
car. one end Of which was burning.
and came out with the drink of water
which he gave to the suffering pas
senger He brought out cushions for
others OF the injured and was every
where present to minister to the wants
Of the suffering.
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
It is feared that nearly all the seven
mail clerks persisted in the disaster,
but so far only six bodies have been
taken from the wreck. Those dead are
Jim Brennan. engineer. Topeka: Nate
HOLSTER fireman, Topeka; j. +. Sours,
Kansas City, express messenger. body
almost consumed by fire: william
Frsbey engineer; II. A. Doran. En-
poria postal clerk; - Gonzales. fire.
man. west-bound train; unknown man,
tramp: - Brangman, Topeka.
Ben Walters, St Joseph. Mo-, fire.
man on the west bound train. is miss
inc.
Among the seriously injured are;
Claude Holiday. Lawrence, express
messenger both legs broken; d. C,
Erter Kansas City, express messen-
ger, legs broken, will die; John Dagan,
Topeka, face smashed: j. II. Butler,
county attorney Chase county, hip
broken. may die: William +. Jones,
Kansas city leg and arms broken; Il.
?. Metlk. AtChison. badly bruised:
Phil Schier, Kansas City, hip crushed;
c. A. NanFleit, brakeman, Kansas
City, badly bruised; William Patrick,
Kansas city. leg and arm broken; G.
D, Adams, city OF Mexico, painfully
bruised; Mike Sweeney. Gainesville,
Tex, back hurt.
HOW TRAINS WERE RUNNING.
The engineers of the westbound
train had received orders to meet the
fast mail mt Emporla and were max
Ing m lost time. The two are the
fastest trains ON the Santa Fe system,
and the westbound train must have
oeen running at speed of at least
ioFty miles an hour. The westbound
express was going around slight
curve and met the fast mail probably
within 200 feet.
OF the seven or eight cars making
up the Mexico and California express,
only the mail, baggage, express and
smoking cars We're destroyed. The
coach following the smoker was badly
Fpntered
There ,vara No. ,,,nro ,bop n 1azap
passengers on the fast mail, all In one
coach, and while none OF them We're
seriously Injured their shaking up
was terrible. Every seat in the coach
was torn from the floor and many
Moor planks came up with the seats
one man. John Sweeney,wns thrown
over three seats and through win
dow hut escaped with only scratches
Eng bruises. The other cars of the
last mail train. baggage and an ex-
press We're totally wrecked.
MISCARRIAGE OF ORDERS.
1t Is stated that the wreck wac
caused by a miscarriage Of orders from
he ueinmaster. At Emporia the
sasteoundtast mail train received or
yyris 10 PASS the California express at
lang seven miles east. Another order
Express to take the siding there, but
ulls order was not delivered and the
m's'e pound train passed IN, the train
n.en expecting TO pass the fast mail
at Emporia
=, Al midnight II becomes apparent
uat INC early estimates Of the number
VI uead We're exaggerated, and II Ia
, n9WW clear that the number of dead
NJ" not cNceed ten or eleven. During
w., rg excitement early in the evening 1t
mas exported that nearly all of the six
tVu3lal clerks on the two trains Were
n Mlleu o. missing, Tive Of the clerks
were Killed. An of the others. save
TTlhe' are more or less seriously Injured
t"e hst OF dead us known at midnight |
Is as follows:
NUMBER OF DEAD.
lanes Rennan, engineer, Topeka;
ii i,,,s Ho.listcr, fireman, Topeka: VII
G 'eil FrEhey, engineer; --Gcnzales
TteIllah ~ S1urs, express messenger. |
iiSSHNshs CITY! RIA. Doran, postal clerk, |
ii;S,,nl"Ila NJ j. McGlnde. postal clerk |
az pnllh' died at II o'clock; |
gas, urlnnn; Daniel McKennon, hoy
Roa yity; unknown man, tramp,
10, ls missing.
y 4r mai clerks who are hurt are w |
H. zones r, o. McGoe and Claude |
bi5 'Yuly' The latter may die. as both |
VIZ. 'yss arg broken and he is other
csc'5.. b5lly hurt Clerk f. c. Fletcher |
TllptI serious injury.
~ u,Hd were brought to Empoiia. |
nort Vlunight n special train left Eni-
in ~ bearing seventeen of the injured |
for top,ka whore they VIII be cared |
wi IN the hospital.
Launched the Roller boat.
Toronto. Sept s.--The much-talked-oc |
t55@iP roller boat was launched here