New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-10
THE SANTA FE COLLISION.

TWELVE PERSONS WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT Ok
DIED SOON AFTER THE WRECK
rr,or,a Kan Sent Q (SpeciaD.-rhe collision on
tho Atchison Topeka and Santa re Railroad last
night proves TO have been the worst disaster thdt
has occurred that system In many years
.Twclv, known to be dead. missing tprobably
incncrated, and fourteen injured. two OF whon are
likely to dle-this is the result. so far az can d"
learned. The first lists were incomplete because OF
IN. confusion attending the wreck Even tonight
IL not positively known that the list Is complete
as II Is believed that several persons were burned
TO death ard that nothing was left by when they
could he recognized
The bodies OF eleven have beer found IN the de-
bris three burned beyond recognition. William
Frisbee. OF Topeka engineer CT the eas,pouhd ias'
mail who was last night reported among the IN
jured expired during the day, and Michael NC
Glade and r. A. Doran postal clerks were Iou''u
10 have been wrongly placed in the list OF injured
Nothing could DO found OF the remains OF inc
Wells Fargo express messenger, j. +. I. Sauer.
handful OF charred bones taken from the wreck
however are supposed 10 be hts. Near them was
found his watch
The wrecked trains were the fastest In the SER
yice-the fas. mail eastbound. and the California
and Mexico express. w@stbound. Each was run
ming at least forty miles an hour. The wreck was
caused by "A miscarriage Of orders by the UaIh
dispatcher The conductor OF the oastbound train
fornia flyer at Lang. seven miles enst An ORDER
sent to Lang 10 the conductor OF the westbound
train TO wait there not delivered. ana ne sup
posed they 20 pass at Emporla. Inc ChIl,,
fornia train was almost hour late. IL carried
eigh, passenger coachcf, and all were cro"deu;
Tho train was going around a Sigh; curve. and
met the fast mail without tho least warning;
There was a shock II the trains had pumped
up against q stone wall Then there was an eh-
piosion. = crashing sound. an uncertain movement
o. the coaches. and all the lights went out Inc
cars filled with steam ana smoke ana the
smoklng-car Of the westbound train was con
sumed IN the burning wreck. The wonder If that
the loss OF life not greater.
William Fr!sbec engineer OF the fast mail, whose
home was IN Topeka was conscious until he died.
He said 81 did not tn" other train until came
upon IT, turned on the air and Jumped pre-
sumo canno; recover. but ] VIII die a. bravery
a. ! can. want you men 10 leave IN" ana hep
victims that are more unfortunate than am.
A H. Adams. who IL among the injured. was on
his way Mexico from New-jcrs"y win regis
tered bonds amounting 10 5000 and other val
uahles They all burned In the hre.
Human ghouls delved IN the wreckaBc and plum
dcrcd the mail sacks which strewed the ground.
one man tried to snatch diamond from the breast
Of an Emporia doctor. who weak ana nervous. "''
creeping slowly OF the debris lie had strength
enough left TO hit the brute "A blow In the face.
which made him sneak away. Mall sacks were
dragged into the cornhcld and rifed
The report at the Kansas city ONCE II mat prhc-
tlcaly all the mail on both OF the wrecked trains
was destroyed one pouch. however, for southern
California on the westbound train Is said TO have
been saved. This train carried large mail from
New York CITY to California colorado. NewM eN-
leo and Arizona No ofrcial report has been re-
c,iyed