The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-28


First Train Delayed I'm the snow
Storm ana the Second Crashes In
to Ii. the Engineer Failing 10 See
the Danger Signnl-J. G. Schmidt
Iapp, Cincinnati MuIti-MilIion-
aire, Badly Hurt.
Kansas City, Feb. 27-The blizzard pre-
vailing throughout Western Missouri was
the direct cause of a train wreck tonight
on the main line of the Missouri Pacific
Road. in which at least two persons, and
possibly more, were killed and several
others were badly hurt
The fast ST. Louis day express, due to
arrive in Kansas City at 5;45 this evening
was delayed by freight train which
stuck in a snowdrift two miles south OF
Independence. Mo, about twelve miles
out of Kansas City. The ct. Louis local
passenger train, running forty minutes be-
hind the fast express, came on through
the binding storm and crashed into
the express train ahead, the en-
gineer having failed TO see the danger
signal which the first train had sent back
Such was the force of the collision that
the parlor car in the rear of the first train
was Utterly cut in two. When Engineer
Frank Raymond and his fireman escaped
from the wreck they crawled out through
the Windows of the parlor 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 coach, and soon the whole
wreck was ablaze. Two or more persons
were burned 1t is believed A list of the
dead and injured so far as known fol-
lows:
Dead
Mrs. ]. G. Schmidlapp of Cincinnati, In
stantly killed. body recovered.
Unknown woman, body consumed In
wreck.
Injured e-IT~Tu
j. G. Schmidapp, Cincinnati: will re-
cover.
Miss Schmidlapp, Cincinnati scalded;
win lose sight both eyes.
Mrs j. G.. Blake, Cincinnati, mother OF
Mrs. Schmidlapp badly scalded. eyesight
lost may recover.
w. r. Vaughn, Cincinnati. newspaper
reporter scalded and right arm crushed;
amputation necessary.
j.. +. Sheldon. Sedalia. assistant super
intendent OF telegraph of Missouri Pacific,
painfully scalded.
Brakeman Frank McAfee, st Louis,
badly bruised.
Mrs. Elizabeth Peters, Kansas City,
scalded.
Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, Cincinnati, scalded.
All of the injured have been brought to
University Hospital in Kansas City.
William Rost, farmer, who came from
his nearby home to assist the imperlled
passengers, Is quite sure that at least
three women were burned in the wreck
Whom ha
cracking through the splintered wood
work at one end, while at the other a cloud
of blisterng steam was belching from the
locomotive, which had ripped the coach
open from end to end. On every side were
men and women crying for assistance.
Other passengers from the forward
coaches came back and helped out all those
In the burning car who could be reached.
The body of one woman was jammed in
the roof of the burning coach and 1t was
not reached by the rescuers, according to
Mr. Rost. The body of another woman
was consumed in fun view of the passen-
gers who gathered about the wreck. Mr..
Rost and Others reached into the burning
debris and tried to drag her out, but she
was pinned under heavy wreckage MIR.
Rost says the young woman was appar-
emily dead as he reached her hand and
there was no response 90 his efforts al
rescue. He described the woman as about
25 years of age; she wore a dark dress
and a leather tihatelaine hung from her
waist.
Mr.. Rost believes that he saw the body
of still third woman wedged between
the timbers of the burning coach, but be,
fore he could get closer, the fire, smoke
and steam obscured his view.
The locomotive OF the first train was
dispatch to Independence for surgeons,
and after returning with these. came ON
to Kansas City with the passengers from
the two trains. The paror car of the ex
press train was the only coach wrecked.