The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-28
TERRIBLE TRAIN DISASTER.
WOMEN CREMATED IN A WRECKED
AND BURNING CAR.
Others Terribly Scalded. and Two
Women VIII Lose Their sight,
Even II They Recover From other
Injuries-AI Wen Known People.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 27-The fast st.
Louis day express. due to arrive in Kan
sas City at 5:45 this evening, was delayed
by a freight train, which stuck in a snow
drift two miles south of independence. Mo-,
about nine miles out of Kansas City. The
st. Louis local passenger train, running
forty minutes behind the fast express.
came on through the binding snow storm
and crashed into the express train ahead,
the engineer having failed through the
driving snow to see the danger signal
which the fast train had sent back.
The parior car in the rear OF the first
train, was literally cut in two. When
Engineer Frank Raymond and his flremen
escaped from the wreck they crawled out
through the windows of the parior car.
Fire added TO the horrors of the wreck,
Goals from the furnace of the shattered
engine having fallen among the debris
of the splintered car and soon the whola
wreck was abaze. Two or more persons,
II is believed were burned.
The Dead and Injured.
A list Of the dead and seriously injured.
so far as known, is as follows:
Mrs. j. G. Schmidlapp. Cincinnati. o..
instantly killed; body recovered.
Unknown woman, body consumed in
wreck.
Injured
J. G. schmidlapp. Cincinnati: win re-
cover
Miss schmdlspp. Cincinnati. scalded; will
lose sight of both eyes
Mrs. J. Balecke Cincinnati, mother of
Mrs. schmidlapp. badly scaided eyesight
lost: may recover.
w. A. Vaughan. Cincinnati newspaper
reporter scalded and right arm crushed
amputation necessary.
l.. F. Sheldon. Sedalia, assistant super
inf nF sata NIB Of ia pa
cific. painfully scalded.
Brakeman Frank McAfee. St. Louis.
badly bruised.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, Kansas City. badly
scalded.
Mrs Elizabeth Lee, Cincinnati. badly
scalded.
All of the injured have been brought to
the University hospital. in Kansas City.
Three Women Probably KILLED.
VIM Rost, a farmer near whose place
the wreck occurred and who was one Of
the first to render any assistance to the
imperiled passengers. is quite sure that
at least three women were burned In the
wreck. When he reached the car flames
were cracking through the splintered
woodwork of the car at one end while
at the other end cloud of hlistering steam
was issuing from the locomotive which
had ripped the coach open from end to
end On every side were men and women
crying for assistane.
Mr.. Rost's first act was to pull from the
wreck a woman whose legs were sticking
out through a broken window. She was
not badly hurt BY the time this had been
accomplished other passengers from the
forward coaches had come back and helped
out all Of those in the burning car who
could be reached
Mr. Rost states that he saw the body OF
one woman tammed in the roof of the
burning coach and that II was not reach
ed by the rescuers.
The body Of another woman was con-
sumed in full view OF the passengers who
gathered about the wreck. Mr. Rost and
Others tried to draw her out but she was
pinned under heavy wreckage. Mr.. Rost
says the young woman was apparently
dead, as he reached her hand and there
was no response to his efforts at rescue.
Were Well known Cincinnati People
CINCINNATI. Feb. Ell @. Schmidlapp
IL president of the Union Savings Bank
and Trust Company in this city. For
years President Mckinley had been his
guest when he visited this city. Mrs.
Schmidlapp was a patron Of literature and
music well as OF nearly all the charit-
able organizations in the city. The
Schmidlapps left yesterday for months
absence at Pasadena, Cal
Mrs Bake. the mother OF Mrs schmidt
OF the Brunswick Bake -Collender COM
pany.