The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-27
TORREY HURT.
Five of His Cowboy Soldiers
Lose Their Lives
And Many are Badly In ured in
a Wreck.
REAR END COLLISION.
One Section of His Train
Crashes Into Another.
Accident Occurred on the II. C..
III. & b.

Tupelo, Miss, June PA railway &C
cident occurred at this place at $40
yesterday afternoon in which five SOL
diers lost their lives and others received
fatal injuries
Colonel Torrey's regiment of rough
riders from Cheyenne, Wyo., reached
this place via the Kansas City, Mem
phis & Birmingham railroad. The first
section had stopped to take water and
had whistled to start on when the Sec
ond section rounded the sharp curve
in the track just before the town is
reached and dashed into 1t. In the rear
Seville" containing Colonel Torrey
and his regimental staff. This car was
completely demolished, yet, strange to
say, every inmate escaped unscathed
though not seriously.
The chief fatalities occurred in a
coach which stood in the center of the
first section, which carried troop G
completely telescoped and the soldiers
within were damned and bruised be-
meath masses of tirnbers, broken car
seats and other debris. In the second
section one baggage car was thrown
into the ditch, but in this train few
were hurt and none dangerously.
Action on the part of the soldiers was
immediate to save their imperiled COM
buckets they worked like demons tear
ing away the wreckage to get at the
wounded and dead and quench the fire
which had started in the sleeper Sc
VILE" which was a. mass of broken
wreckage, covering steaming, Kissing
engine. The wounded were removed to
a vacant building in the town.
The killed are:
Willie B. Wallace, troop c.
Sam Johnson, troop c.
Private Gimmer, troop L.
Gordon, cOlOred porter
Cornelius Lehman, troop c.
Henry S. MapeS, troop G, had both
legs cut off ana was punctured in the
abdomen; he is dying.
The others injured are:
R. D. Staley, troop NJ, elbow dislo-
Gated.
E. Perkins. troop L, both hips
damned.
Wallace Hodge troop G, ankle broken.
George Gardner troop c, hip hurt.
Rudolph Widmar, officers mess cook,
back strained.
Hiram F. Davis, troop c, ankle
sprained.
Henry Steltz, troop c, leg broken.
Will Grovener, troop c, leg bruised.
Joseph Aaron, troop c, back SpraIned.
w. H. Robbins, troop A, anKie dis
located
Arthur Evans, troop E. hip dislo-
Gated.
Joseph Wilkinson. troop I, slightly
injured.
SCHoHCk, troop ~ I0S OdO1S VI uiSCO-
+ Colonel Torrey was in a state room
of the sleeping car,which was separated
from the engine of the second section
by short caboose. The force OIL the
impact carried the first section forward
500 yards. When the train stopped,
Colonel Torrey found himself outside,
beneath the wreckage, and, although
his feet were badly bruised, he man.
aged to Chamber up the embankment.
His other injuries are several bruises
about the head.
The fault of this accident probably
lies with the engineer Of the second
section, who was running too fast and
too near the first section. The name
of the engineer is RaWls. The soldiers
have threatened to lynch him.
He was unable to talk last night He
received internal injuries that have
caused several hemorrhages- He is
completely overcome on account of the
deplorable affair.
Not a horse was injured, although
several of the stock cars were badly
smashed.