Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-02
FLYER LEAVES The TRACK
Northwestern Fast Mail in Ditch at Foot Of
Moingoua Hill.
FIVE PEOPLE DEAD AND OTHERS INJURED
Mail Cars Jump clear over the En-
gine and Land In Reverse order
in the Ditch-CauSe of Ac-
cidcnt Unknown.
FIVE PEOPLE DEAD AND OTHERS lNJURt

BOONE, Ia, Aug. 1.-CSpecial Telegrarn.)
-No 8, the Northwestern fast mail, was
wrecked at the foot of Moingona hill at $40
this morning. Engine No. 902, with thres
cars, in charge of Conductor Rolla Rose,
running sixty miles per hour, jumped the
track at the grade approaching the Des
Moines river bridge. The engine stopped
and the cars passed over it, stripping it
to the boiler, instantly killing the engineer.
fireman, mail clerk and express messenger.
The cars were reduced to fragments. The
killed are:
JOHN MASTERSON, engineer, Boone.
GEORGE SCHMIDT, fireman, Boone.
d. STONE, chief mail clerk, Chicago.
A. w. HOYT, assistant clerk, Chicago.
j. j. o'BRIEN, express messenger. Chi
cago.
A. W.. Hoyt was taken from the wreck to
the city hospital and died at IL 40.
Four other men we're taken to the hospi-
tai, two of whom may die.
The following were injured:
Postal Clerk Fackert. Dixon, III.
Postal Clerk f. H. Shirk, McCausland, Ill.
Postal Clerk c. C. Roorick, Dixon, Ill.
Messenger Helper f. l.. Figafoos, Missouri
Valley, la.
Brakeman Thomas Flannery was slightly
injured internally.
L 'o'u Es " lIu VI SuItdSO was
badly shaken I'D. but not much injured.
The bodies of the killed were brought to
this city in a way car at s o'clock and taken
to Stowell's undertaking establishment,
where they are being prepared for burial.
The cause of the accident is not known.
The engine lies diagonally with the track
and the cars are in reversed order at the
bottom OF a ffteen-foot grade. The wreck
cleared the track and trains were not de-
layed. The engine lies within ten feet of
the track. 1t did not go down the embank-
ment. Tit oars jumped clear over it and
as they fell the hind car was furthest to-
ward the bridge. The engine is stripped
down to the boiler. The roofs of all the
cars were stripped off and the baggage car
looks like a pile Of scraps. The roof of one
car lies far beyond the rest of the wreck,
bottom Ut. with the lamps standing up
ward. A set of trucks of one of the cars
ran on down to the bridge before leaving
the track.
When the wreck occurred hardly a man
was able to go for assistance. In a short
time the brakeman recovered sufficiently to
go to town and give the alarm.
Mail Clerk George Lindell, though badly
bruised, went to work recovering mail from
the wreck and saved nearly all before the
relief train arrived from Boone.
This was Engineer Johnny Jeckson's reg
ular trip. Jackson made his reputation in
running No. 9 in the race against the Bur-
lington, but he was overworked and Master
son took his place. 1t was the dead engi-
neer's first run on the fast mail. A wreck
ing train was sent to the wreck as soon as
possible. Hundreds Of people drove to the
scene Of the wreck, which is one Of the most
disastrous that has occurred for many years.
IF pppi,rrad near Kata Shp1Iay'S home and
near the spot where she saved the train in
the storm nearly twenty years ago.
Associated Press Story.
BOONE, Ia, Aug. 1.-The fast mail train
on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
which left Chicago at 10 O'Clock last night,
jumped the track at Kate Shelly curve"
just east Of the Des Moines river bridge,
at 8 o'clock this morning. The engine and
all the cars were wrecked.
The following were killed:
ENGINEER JOHN MASTERSON, Boone.
FIREMAN ARTHUR SCHMIDT, Boone.
POSTAL CLERK G. G. STONE, Aus
tin, Ill.
j. J. O'BRIEN. a postal clerk living in
Chicago, died after reaching this city.
The following were injured, but the ex-
tent of their injuries cannot be determined
until the surgeons at the hospital here have
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mud. their clothing torn off, badly bruised
and covered with blood:
Postal Clerk Fackert. Dixon, III.
Postal Clerk A. w. Hoyt, Cedar Rap
ids, Ia.
Postal Clerk E. H. shirk. McCaus-
land, III.
Postal Clerk C. C. Roorick, Dixon. III.
Messenger Helper r. l.. Sigafoos, Missouri
Valley. Ia.
Brakeman Thomas Flannery was slightly
injured internally.
Postal Clerk f. c.. Lindell of Chicago was
badly shaken up, but apparently not much
injured.
The others on the train. Conductor Rose,
Brakeman Dorman and Bridge T. McBarnes,
escaped unhurt.
The cause of the derailment Is unknown
at present. Conductor Rose said that he did
not notice that the train was going at other
than the usual speed. The engine rolled
completely over and the body remained
clear OF the track, while the front truck was
thrown $50 feet into a cornfield. All the
cars went over the bank. Nothing was left
of the express car but the wheels. The
postal car was badly wrecked and the stor-
age car and mail car turned over on their
sides.
The dead were placed in charge OF an
undertaken here and the injured are being