The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-28
ONLY SEVEN OF THE DEAD.
Conductor of the -Faed Wabash Train Returns to Life

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 27.-Seven
collins were forwarded TO st. Louis to-
day from Missouri City. They contain
ed the remains of Victims of last
nights wreck on the. Wabash road. A
correct list of the dead. is as follows:
W. S. Mills, postal clerk, St. Louis; O. NJ.
Smith, postal clerk st. Louis; Charles Win
ters, postal clerk, st. Louis; F. W. Brink
postal clerk St: Louis; Edward Grindrod,
baggagemaster, st. Louis; Charles P. Greas-
ley, brakeman, st. Louis,
The conductor of the train. c. c.
Copeland, of St. Louis, who was re-
ported last night among the dead is
still alive. He was removed this morn
ing to the railroad hospital at Moberly
With a fractured skull and several
broken ribs he fingers between life and
death, but the surgeon expresses a hope
that he will recover Conductor Cope
land was supposed to be dead when
taken from the wreck and his body,
with a handkerchief down over his
face, was ranged in ROW with the
seven corpseS. A few minutes later
some one observed a sign of life and
he was quickly transferred to
tention.
OF the nineteen others injured not
one is in a critical condition. Among
them all there is not one broken limb.
though many Of them were thrown
three-quarters of the length of the
coaches in which they were riding.
Mrs. w. H. Wilkinson, of Kansas City,
is the most seriously hurt. Two small
Lea
and she suffered a severe laceration Of
the thigh as we'll as bruises about the
face and neck. The wounds Of most
of the others are trivial.
All indications are that death came
to at least four of the five unfortunate
mail clerks almost instantly. Their
car pitched the first through the break
in the trestle and they must have
been drowned in the raging stream
while in an unconscious condition. The
remains Of the four were carried from
the wreck and were recovered some
distance down the stream. There were
signs of life in the body of the fifth mail
clerk, when rescuers dragged him from
the wreck, but he died few minutes
later on the bank of the creek.
Last night it was feared that there
were more bodies in the stream, but
a careful search today proved that the
fatalities were limited to those already
named. Today but small stream was
flowing beneath the trestle where the
wreck occurred. In ordinary weather
it is a dry creek bed. The storm of
last night, which was almost a cloud
burst had swollen the little stream
to torrential proportions. The flood
carried away a wagon bridge short
distance above the Wabash trestle. The
wreck of this bridge hurled down upon
the railroad trestle and carried away
a row of wooden supports in the cen-
ter.
A neighboring farmer noticed the per-
ilous condition Of the trestle, and re-
solved to flag the passenger train, which
he knew to be about due. For near
ly an hour he stood in the terrific
down-pour of rain, only to fail at last
in his good Intentions for when the
Wabash company's New York fast mail
came laundering on the storm was al
most binding, and the engineer evil
IDENTIFY could not see the signal which
the farmer so frantica1Iy waved across
the track.
The locomotive struck the trestle a
momen later the disaster was presented
in all its horrors. The engine passed
over, but the tender went through, with
the tumbling bridge. The baggage car
toppled off on it's side, while the mail
car, which followed, pitched into the
stream end first. Every life in this
car was lost. The smoker, next be-