Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-28
Occurred Near Kansas City
Last Evening.
TWO WOMEN ARE KILLED
And There May Have Been Others
Cremated in the Wreck Which
Caught Fire-A Large Number OF
People Were Injured.

Kansas City, Feb. 27.-The fast st.
1outs dav express. due to arrive i'll KAN
sas City at 5:45 this evening. was delayed
nv a freight train which stuck in a snow
drift two miles south of independence,
Mo, about twelve miles out OF hansas
Civ The st. Louis local passenger
rain, running forty minutes behnho the
fast express. cane on through the pima
ing snow storm and crashed into the eX-
nress ahead. the engineer having failed
in the driving snow to see the danger
signal which the fast tran had sent pack'
The parlor car. in the rear OF the hrst
train was literally cut in two. When En-
giueer Frank Raymond and his fireman
ESCAPED from The wreck they craWled out
through the windows Of the parlor car.
Fire added to the horror Of the wreck,
GOALS from the furnace from the shatter-
ed engine having fallen among the deoris
Of the splintered coach and soon the Whoie
wreck was abiaza. Two or more persons
it is believed. We're burned. a list OF the
dead and seriously injured. SO far as
known. is as follows:
MRS. j. G. SCHMIDLAPP, Cincinnati,
instantly killed, body recovered.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, body consumed
in the wreck.
Injured: ]. G. Schmidlapp. Cincinnati;
will recover; Miss Schmidlapp, Cincin-
natl, scalded, will lose sight OF both eyes.
Mrs. ]. Baiecke. Cincinnati. mother or
Mrs. Schmidlapp, badly scalded, eyesight
lost, may recover; w. A. Vaughn. Cincln-
natl, newspaper reporter, scalded ana
right arm crushed. amputation necessary;
L. F.. Sheldon. Sedalia. assistant superin-
tendent telegraph Of Missouri Pacific,
: painfully scalded: Brakeman. Frank Nc
Afee, ST. Louis, badly bruised; Mrs.
Elizabeth Peters, Kansas City, scalded;
Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, Cincinnati. scalded.
All of the injured have been brought to
the University hospital in Kansas City.
William Rost, a farmer, near whose
place the wreck occurred and among the
first to render assistance to the inperiled
passengers, is quite ure that at least
three women We're burned in the wreck
When he reached the car flames were
cracking through the splintered wood
work of the car at one end. while ait the
other end a cloud of biistering steam was
issuing from the locomotive. which had
ripped the coach open from end to end.
On every side were men and women cry
ing for ass stance.
Mr.. Rost's first act was to pull from
the wreck a woman whose legs We're
striking out from 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 hose in the burning cal
who could be cached.
Mr.. RS states that he saw the body OF
one worna jammed in the roof of the
BURNING coach. ard that it was not reach
ed by the resclers.
The body Of another woman was con-
sunled IN full view Of the passengers who
gathered about the wreck. Mr.. Rost and
others tried to drag her out. but she was
pinned under heavy wreckage. Mr.. Ros1
avs the young woman was apparently
dead, as ha reached her hand. and there
was no response to his efforts at rescue.