Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-06-13
A TRAIN IS DERA|LED.
Wreck on Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf Railroad.
DUE TO HEAVY FLOODS.
Between Forty and Forty.five Pas
sengers Are Injured-Taken
to Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo-, June 9.-Between
forty and forty-fve passengers were in
jured, three perhaps fatally, by the de-
railment of sOuthbound passenger
train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg q
Gulf railroad three miles south of Grand
view, Mo-, at $50 last night. The train
left Kansas City late and was running
at a slow rate Of speed on account Of
bad condition of track occasioned by
heavy rains. The injured were brought
to this city today and taken to hospitals
The list of injured follows:
P. H. Williams Moret, Mo, slight Mrs.
S. B. Powell Mena, Ark, Slight; B. C.
Duffy, Fort Smith. Ark, hip sprained; Mrs.
B. c. Duffy, face cut; child OF Mr.. and Mrs
w. L. Adams, Richards, Mo-, slight cut on
leg; C. j. Mars, Christopher, Mo, right
shoulder hurt; Arthur scruggs, Joplin, Mo-,
and side bruised; John Reynolds, Kansas
City, hip bruised Vernon Bigler, Amster-
dam, Mo-, face badly, bruised; H. E. SpeeTr,
IrontOn, Mo-, hip bruised; Mrs. Z. &.
Speeze hand lacerated; August Hulett, As
bury, Mo-, leg bruised; Mrs. NJ. E. Church
man, Colorado Springs, Col, hand injured;
Mrs. J. NJ. Horne, Pittsburg, kaS., face
burned; p. r. Brown, Cleveland, Mo, legs
injured; l. V. C. Moore, Kansas City, head
hurt; Mrs. Frank Down, Kansas City, kas.,
sas City, Kas., head cut; Charles +.
Haines, arm cut and knee hurt; w. L. Nc
Gran, Blair, Neb., cut on head; Mrs. w.
II. Warden, Kansas City, shoulder hurt; j.
body; w. A. Deul, Nashville, Mo, side hurt;
A. j. Gorgenson, news agent Kansas City,
bruised; c. c. Berkey, cleveland, Mo, leg
bruised; G. S. Lacey, Argentine, kas, knee
hurt; George Payne, Argentine, cut on chin;
W. C.. Simons, Drexel, shoulder crusneG'
h
S. Howell, Nebraska, bruised leg; J. B.
Stuart, Drexel, Mo-, ear lacerated; Henry
without, Drexel, Mo, head cut; g. l. X.
Crawford, Drexel, Mo, bruised chest, may
die, A. G. Donovan, Kansas City; HAS
ell, Mo-, face cut; j. NJ. Jackson, lingo,
Kas., head cut and back hurt; John T. Nc
BerfoWSitz, NeW Orleans 'l ankle sprained:
Mrs BerkowitZ head bruised; Euell Stok-
er, Drexel Mo-, back hurt; Melville Stoker,
Rock Vail, has., head cut.
The Rails Spread.
The wrecked train was due to leave
Kansas City last night at 7:30, but it
was nearly 5 before start was made.
Two miles beyond Grandview, a small
station thirty miles south of Kansas City,
the rails spread owing to recent severe
rains and the smoker, which contained
most Of the injured, and the chair car
Immediately following, were turned on
their side into a ditch; the Pullman left
the track, but remained upright. The
engine and combination baggage and
mail car remained on the track.
The accident occurred at $50 during a
heavy downpour Of rain. The crew inn
mediately began the rescue of the passen-
gers in the pouring rain and darkness.
Women and children were dragged from
the windows of the chair car and given
attention first. Before all mao been taken
out the car took fire from the stove. The
porter Immediately cut a hole through
the roof of the car, Quenched the fire and
rescued several women in immediate
danger.
In the well-flIed smoker, passengers
were compelled to crawl the full length
of the car to escape. Exit through the
broken windows was dangerous, the
darkness making it impossible to see
foot ahead. The scene of the wreck was
in the woods, and there were no houses
near to which the injured could be taken.
Torches were improvised and fires We're
built and lent aid to the rescuers and
warmth to the rain-soaked injured.
Word of the wreck was sent to Grand
view, and relief train was sent from
Kansas City, arriving at 3 o'clock a. m.
and took back to Kansas City all Of the
injured.
Engineer Brown, seen after the wreck,
said that he was running slowly around
sharp curve on an embankment eight
feet high. The track was cleared by
noon today and trains were running as
usual.