Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-09-16
TEN KILLED.
Head End Collision of Santa Fe
Trains Near Emporia.
MANY PERSONS FATALLY INJURED,
Aec'dent Was Due to the Miscarriage NJ
ordrrH-Fire Adds to the Horror-w.
>. Bryan One Of the Passeu.
gers-Loss Over 500, 900,

EMpoRlA, Kan, Sept. 9-Ten mr.
aead and II are injured, some of then
fatally, as the result of head.end col
lision of two of the fastest trains /,
the Santa Fe service at 1880 last NIGHT
The fast mail train, eastbound an,
the California and Mexico EXPRESS
westbound, crashed together on
curve three miles east of Emporia
The engines exploded, tearing an i'm,
mense hole in the earth into which
the baggage and mail ears plunged
ana were consumed by fire. The list
OF the dead are:
James Brennan engineer Toncka Kan
Nate Holister, fireman. Topeka Kan Iulins
=, r. f. sauef' messenger Wells-Fargo express.
Kansas city, Mo-, William, Frisbey engineer
VI last mall train; r. O Niece postal clerl,
hanSas CITY; Doran, postal clerk. En-
poria' = bragman 6.3 Locus, street. Topekn.
Nun - Gonzales, lWman Of wes,bound
'raln; Daniel Mckennon. h wears old e,O Han
COCK Street Topeka, Kan, twounknown tramns
The wreck was caused bv the mis-
carriage of orders from the trainmns.
ter. The conductor of the eastbonnd
tram was ordered at Emporia to meet
ana pass the California flyer at Lang,
seven miles east. An order sent 70
Lang to the conductor of the westbound
Vraiil Tor him to wait there was not
delivered and he supposed he was to
pass at Emporia. Each train was hur.
rylng one to Enporia the other to
Lang-and met at full speed on the
main line. The westbound train was
making not less than 40 miles an hour
when the wreck occurred.
The California train was almost an
hour late and, owing to Mr.. Bryan's
lecture engagement at Burlingame
was crowded to the guards with ex-
'nrslonists returning home. Forth.
'ately this pressure was relieved some.
shat by many of the passengers get
ing Off at Usage City. The express
ram was drawn by two locomotives
ma when they struck the fast mail all
hree OF the engines exploded and tore a
'ole IN the track so deep that the slaok-
hg car OF the westbound train went
n top of the wreck of the three en-.
ines and two mail cars, and balanced
here without turning over Those in
his car who escaped through the win
ows came very near turning the car
Ver' IN which event the fatality would
ave been much greater as this car
'on caught fire from the exploded on.
mes underneath il and burned In
'nes IN no time. In jumping out of
he windows one or two are known IN
ave fallen into the burning debris
1derneath and their fate is unknown
lhere were not more than a dozen
lssengers in the fast mail all in one ,
zach, and while none of them were ,
rlousIy injured, the shaking up was
rrlble. Every seat was torn from its
nor fastenings with such force that
any of them pulled panks from the
or with them
On the west bound train was W. J. 8
van and 7. NJ. Potter Both men a..
| splendid work in the work Of rcs- O.
e. Mr. Bryan assisted in carving a
OF the wreckagc two postal clerks &,
was by the side of Engineer Fris- h
and helped attend him until the Il
tors and relief train arrived from h,
lporia. :;
was some minutes before the peo. ~
realized the full extent of the ~
ident. When IL was realized the ~,
itement was intense, but the cooler h,
$ went to work like trojans and did 60
one work in rescuing the less for rn
ate train crew and passengers d,
re happened to be house near bv. ia,
lpled by u farmer named jackson. nm
water brigade was immediately ~
hed TO prevent conhagration. m
tchers were improvised and as the 10,
and wounded were taken from IN
debris they were passed down from cr,
top OF the ruins by string of men wo
worked nobly WV
lie dead and mangled bodies of four m,
ms were dragged to the grass be-
the tracks. The women passen.
huddled in terror and watched
names grow higher and higher "
lie fire roared and cracked like a T
ace men with blanched faces fla,
ut with the bravery of he To,
to subdue it, but they were fall
ing under .he most nd. bri,
circumstances, and 1t seemed -,
they would be unable to Gun
the course of the fire 6end ace
names at one time rose to such a wal
1t that they could be seen In En-. . con
three miles away. After her. '"e
n work. they were subdued. and w" ~,
loped that no bodies were incin. "a, "'''
1. the
ms over the Santa Fe will be run o ~. =
y OF Ottawa fora few days. The , .'e
, the wreck to the railway is est. , tlva'
at 100000. 'he
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