The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-10
Santa Fe Collision the Worst
ON that Line in Years.
TEN EMPLOYEES WERE KILLED
Removal of the Dead and wounded Ac-
complished With DifHculty--w.
j. Bryan Tells of His
Experience,

EMPORIA, Kan, sept. S.-LaSC nlgnI'
head-on collision on the Atchison, 10
peka & Santa Fe proves to have been
the worst disaster that has occurred on
that system in many years. Twelve en-
ployes were killed outright or died of
their injuries, and fifteen others were
more or less injured.
Trains over the Santa Fe will be run
by way of Ottawa for few days. The
cost of the wreck to the railway is esti-
mated at 800, 900.
As the passengers and trainmen re-
covered from the shock of the explosion,
they looked for the injured and dead.
Far down in the heaps of the debris
sounded wailing voices of men pleading
for aid. While the rescuers were work
ing to get at the unfortunates, fire broke
out in the wreckage of the forward
coaches, and a cry for water went up,
Water tanks were torn from their tasten-
ings in the coaches that could be entered
and blood besmeared men carried them
over broken timbers to quench the fast
spreading flames. The dead and man
gled bodies of four victims were dragged
to the grass beside the track. After her
culean efforts the flames were finally
subdued, and the work of rescue made
more easy.
Engineer Brannan was found under
his engine, dead. Engineer Nate Hol-
lister was thrown thirty feet from his
engine and was picked up dead. En-
gineer Frisbey was picked up some dis
tance from the track, fatally injured.
Benjaman Walter, his fireman was ter
ribly mangled. Shurley and Gonzalla,
firemen on No. l, were badly injured,
and died after being removed from the
wreck.
The four postal clerks on No. were
ali found. They were R. o. MCGEE, w.
F. Jones, NJ. J. McGlade and Claude
Holiday, all of Kansas City. Holiday g
legs are broken and he is injured inter
nally. NJ. ]. McGlade was crushed and
bruised about the head and body and he
died shortly before midnight. Jones'
legs are mashed and his head is badly
cut. McGee's legs are crushed.
The postal clerks on the fast mail
were A. Dorm and ]. F. Sauer. The ex-
press messenger was killed and G. w.
Van Cleve, a brakeman, is fatally in
jured. After time a reliet train ar
rived and the injured were taken to
Topeka.
William J. Bryan was interviewed as
to his experience in the collision. He
said: 81 have travelled thousands of
miles on railroads and I was never in a
wreck before. did not feel the shock
very severely where was, but from the
way things looked, cannot see why we
were not all killed. The scene here pre-
sented is the most terrible have ever
seen. 1t has made an impression on me
that cannot leave me in my lifetime"
''Is it true you were the first man to
reach the scene from your car and go
to the rescue?' he was asked.
f'Please don't say anything about
that" Bryan replied with deprecating
gesture. From passengers present it
was learned that Bryan was the first per-
son to push forward to the assistance of
the victims; that he assisted to carry
the first body recovered, and that SO
long as there was any necessity he was
foremost in the work of rescue. Mr..
Bryan and David .Leahy, a Topeka news