The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-21
KILLED THREE
Missouri Volunteers Meet Death
in a Collision.
Passenger Train Crashed Into
Military Train.
MANY ARE INJURED.
Accident at ROssVille, Near
Chattanooga.
officers Escape, But Their Val
liable Horses We're Killed.

Chattanooga, May 21.-One man Is
dead and two fatally injured as the re-
suit of a wreck this morning on the
Chattanooga, Rome & Southern rail-
way between Chattanooga and the vol
unteer camp at Chickamauga- The
dead and injured all belonged to the
First regiment Missouri volunteers in
fantry. The list of fatalities is:
George Walker artifcer, Company D,
dead.
Albert NJ Lane, private, both legs
broken, will die.
Harvard Barlaski, private, leg bro
ken, internal injuries, will die.
E. R. Richards, first lieutenant, Com
pany H, badly cut about arms and
shoulders.
R. U. Feidell, private, badly cut about
the body.
Private Ed Lavinsburg, three ribs
broken.
VIM. Moffatt, Chattanooga Times re-
porter, badly injured about the body.
The names of number of other
wounded cannot yet be secured.
Jack McCade, a section hand was
killed by a passing military train just
a few minutes before the casualty to
the first Missouri train.
There were many others badly but
not fatally injured. The train on
which the most damage was done was
carrying the first Missouri from Chat
tanooga to the park. The last car of
this train was loaded with horses of the
officers.
The military train was standing on
the Chattanooga, Rome & Southern
track, just beyond the crossing of the
Belt Line about a half mile from Ross
vile. 1t was crashed into by the reg
ular south bound morning Chattanooga,
Rome & Southern passenger train. 1t
was said there was no hagman on the
military train.
The shock was very severe. The To-
comOtive of the regular train was
jammed into the horse car and this car
completely wrecked the baggage car,
which was the next one forward.
The man who was killed and those
badly injured were all on the horse car.
Everything was done to stop the passen-
ger train which was going at great
speed.
The engineer, w. c. Wheeler, stuck to
his post to the last and escaped with
only a MANNED ankle. He and his fire.
man We're at once arrested and placed
under a squad of soldiers. They are
gravely censured by the soldiers for
running so rapidly with special ahead
of them.
All the horses of the officers, valuable
animals, were killed. The forward
coaches of the military train were bad
1y shaken, but no injury was done any
one in them. The damage would have
been much greater had not the train
not been made up exactly the reverse
of the usual order If it had gone in
regular order the sleepers would have
been in the rear and the officers who
occupied them would have been killed
instead of the horses. The wounded,
about u in all, were taken at once in
cherge by Surgeon Willis of the First
battalion of the regiment. Col. Edwin
Baldorf commanding the regiment is
doing everything for the sufferers.
Lieut.. Col. John Jacob Astor of New
York, as we'll a number of officers
were on the regular train, but were not
injured.
Washington, May 21.-Upon receiving
news of the disaster resulting in the
death and injury to a number of the
Missouri troops near Chattanooga to-
day Secretary Alger sent the following
telegram to Gen. Brooke commanding
at Chicgamauga:
"The Associated Press reports disas-
ter to First Missouri volunteers this
morning near your camp, reporting
death of five men and injury of several
others. The secretary of war directs
that every care be taken of the wound
ed and that the dead be buried with all
the honors of war and immediate steps
taken to prosecute those responsible
for the disaster"