Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-09-10
KNOWN DEAD
Probably Correct List Of the Cas-.
ualties in the Terrible Railway
Wreck in Kansas.
ONE OTHER PERSON Is MISSING.
There Is Also a Horrible Apprehension
That Others May Have Been Complesely
1neinerated Some of the Wounded VIII
Die. and They Number Fourteen-Humnn
GhOuls at the Wresk-Hon W. j. Bryan
Tells a Reporter His Experience.

Tells "a Reporter His Experience.
Emporia, ka.., Sept 10.-Twelve
known dead. one missing (probably in
cinerated). and fourteen injured two
OF whom will likely die). Is the record
OF the terrible head-end collision On
the Santa Fe, as now known. The first
lists were mixed because of the con-
fusion attending the wreck, and all
yesterday names on the list of inquired
We're being transferred to that Of the
cead. Even last night It was not posi-
lively known that the LIST given was
complete, as it is believed that several
We're burned to death and nothing left
by which they could be recognized. The
bodies Of eleven have been found in the
deDris-three burned beyond recognition.
Wliiiam Frispee, of Topeka, engineer
of the east-bound fast mail, who was
reported among the injured. expired
during the day, and Michael McGlade
ana r. a. Doran. postal clerks, were
found to have been wrongly placed in
the list Of injured.
Only "a Handful of Charred Bones.
Nothing could be found of the re-
mains of Wells-Fargo Express Messen-
bones taken from the wreck. however.
are supposed to be his. Ne9r them
was found his watch. The dead are:
Michael McGlade, Kansas City. postal
CLERK; y. r. c. Sauer, Kansas City,
Wells-Fargo express messenger; John
Shirley. Topeka. fireman; r. A. Doran,
Emporia, postal clerk: Nate Holister.
Topeka, fireman: James brennan, To-
peka, engineer: C. W. Van Cleve. brake
man; Ben Walters. st. Joseph. fireman:
- Gonzales, fireman: Dan McKear-
nan. tramp: William Frisbee, Topeka.
engineer; an unknown tramp. Missing.
harvey Fowler, a farmer of Emporia.
Names of the Fourteen Injured
Ihe injured: ]. VI. Bell, Florence. hin
bruised; Alex Ferguson, Kansas C
conductor on No. /, hips hurt: Claude
holiday. Lawrence. express messenger.
p6th legs broken; d. o. Etter, Kansas
CITY, express messenger, legs broken.
VIII ole; John Dagan, Topeka. face
manned; j. T. Butler. county attorney.
chase county, hip broken, NAV die:
William +. Jones, Kansas City, leg and
arm broken; II. p. Melick, Atehison.
badfy hurt: Phil Schier. express mes
scnger. Kansas City. hips crushed:
William Patrick. Kansas City, leg
and arm broken; c. D. Adams. Of the
City of Mexico. painfully bruised: Mike
sweeney, Gainesville. Tex, back hurt.
K. Q. MCGEE, Kansas City, postal clerk:
e. c. Fletcher, Kansas Citv. postal
clerk
GhOul- Appear at the Wreck
Human ghouis delved in the wreck
age ard plurdered the mail sacks which
streWed the ground. One tried to snatch
a diamond from the breast OF an En-
porla doctor who. weak and nervous.
was creeping slowly out of the debris
He had strength enough left to hit the
brute "a blow il the face which made
him turn with curse and sneak AWAY
Mail sacks were dragged into the corn
heid and rified. The report at the Kan
sas City Office is that practically all Of
the mail on both Of the wrecked Santa
Fe trains was destroyed. One pouch
however. for southern California. on
west-bound train No I, is said to hay.
been saved. This train. when IL arrived
carried large mail from New York
city to California, Colorado, New Mex
leo and Arizona. No official report has
been received