Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
A TERRIBLE WRECK.
HEAD END COLLISION ON
THE SANTA FEE.
Eleven Killed, One Missing, and Four
Fatally Injured-The Fast Mall and
California Express COllIde-W. j. Bry-
an In the Wreck, But Not Hurt.

an in the Wreck, But Not Hurt
EMPoRIA, Kan, Sept 10-A revised
list of the victims of the Santa Fe
wreck shows that eleven are dead,
four are so badly injured that they
can not recover and one is missing.
Those dead are;
JAMES BRENNAN of Topeka, en-
gineer
NATE HOLLIsTER of Topeka,
fireman.
JOHN SHIRLEY of 317 Adams
street, Topeka, fireman.
BEN WALTERS of st. Joseph, fire.
man.
EDWARD CONNOLLY, fireman, To
peka
G. A. VAN CLEVE, brakeman, Kan
sas City.
R. A. DORIAN of Emporia, postal
clerk.
j. F. E. SAUER of Kansas City,
Wells-Fargo express messenger
j. M. MGLADE of Kansas City,
postal clerk.
DAN M'KERNAN, Topeka.
One unknown tramp.
Missing - HARVEY FOWLER, a
farmer of Emporia.
Fatally Injured
William Frisbee, engineer, Topeka,
legs broken and injured internally;
will die.
S. c. Erter, brakeman, Kansas City,
will probably die.
William f. Jones, Kansas City, Kan,
leg broken, arm broken, back injured;
will probably die.
Claude Holiday, postal clerk, Law
renee, both legs broken and internally
injured, will probably die.
EMPoRIA, Kan, Sept 10-Two fast
mail and passenger trains, one with
two engines attached and both going
at full speed, met in head end COLI
son on the main line of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad three
miles east of here at Z o'clock last
night and were wrecked and the
debris set on fire.
William j. Bryan was on one of the
trains, but he was in q rear coach and
was not hurt.
Three locomotives, three mail cars
and two passenger coaches were ruined
in the collision and three other pas
senger coaches caught fire from the
wreck and were burned.
The wreck occurred on straight
line of road, when both trains were
running at high rate of speed The
fast mail had been running in
straight line for more than mile, and
the California express, with her two
heavy engines, had just rounded a
curve when the two trains sighted
each other. Down brakes" was inn
mediately whistled, and the air brakes
shot into place, but all too late. The
trains met with horrible crash and
three engines, three baggage cars,
two mail coaches, two smokers and a
passenger coach were piled in one in
discriminate mass.
Not one of the six engineers and
firemen jumped from his cab, but all
heroically faced certain death at the
post of duty. OF the six, but one es-
capped alive. and he is probably NOR
tally injured.
The trainmen state that the acct
dent is due to the negligence of the
agent at Lang, who failed to flag No.
/, the west bound train, as he was in
structed by the dispatcher to do.
Train No. l was one hour late and
was running with two engines in order
to make up lost time, and should have
met the fast mail at Emporia. The
agent at Lang knew the train was
late, and thought he would have time
to eat supper. While he was gone the
train passed the station.
On the west bound train was W. ]
Bryan and 7. NJ. Potter. Both men
did splendid work in the work of res
cue. Mr.. Bryan assisted in carrying
out of the wreckage two postal clerks.
He was by the side of Engineer Fris-
bee and helped attend him until the
doctors and relief train arrived from
Emporia.
Mr.. Bryan was talking to Mr.. Pot
ter when the collision occurred and
was thrown heavily forward.