Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-03-01
COLLIDE IN A ASTORM

WRECK NEAR KANSAS CITY DUE TO A
BLIZzARD-TRREEW WOMEN KILLED.
Missouri Pacific Trains Crash Together In
Midst of Fiercely Raging snowstorm.
One of Injured Is Cincinnati E.illion-
aire, Whose Wife Is Killed.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2S.-The blizzard
prevailing throughout western Missouri
was the dire u cause of a train wreck
last night on the main line Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road, in which at least two
persons, and possibly three, were killed
and several others were badly hurt.
The fast St. Louis express, due to ar
rive in Kansas City at 5:45 p. m. was
delayed by a freight train which stuck
in a snow drift two miles south Of In.
dependence, Mo-, about 10 miles out of
Kansas City. The St. Louis local pas
senger train, running 40 minutes behind
the fast express, came on through the
binding snowstorm and crashed into
the express train ahead, the engineer
having failed in the driving snow to see
the danger signal which the first train
had sent back. Such was the force of
the collision that the parlor car which
was in the rear Of the first train, was
literally cut in two. When Engineer
Frank Raymond and his fireman es
capped 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. The
dead:
MRS. j. q. ScHMIDLAPP, Cincinnati, in
stantly killed; body recovered.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, body consumed il
wreck.
Injured:
j. G. Schmidlapp, Cincinnati; will re
cover.
Miss Schmidlapp, Cincinnati, scalded
will lose sight of both eyes.
Mrs. j. Bake, CincipnASi, Inouner ol
Mrs. Sch,.iu1app, badly scalded, eyesight
lost, but may recover.
w. R. Vaughn, Cincinnati newspaper
reporter, scalded and right arm crushed;
amputation necessary.
l.. f. Sheldon, Sedalia, assistant super.
intendent 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 brough
to University hospital in Kansas City
Says Three Women Perished.
William Rost, a farmer, near whose
place the wreck occurred, and who wa
one of the very first to render an,
assistance to the imperiled passengers
is quite sure that at least three wome1
were burned i'll the wreck. When h,
reached the Car flames were cracklins
through the splintered woodwork O
the car at one end, while at the othe
end cloud of blistering steam wa
belching from the locomotive, which
had ripped the coach open from end tt
end. On every side We're men ant
women crying for assistance. Mr.
Rost's first act was to pull from the
wreck 4 woman whose legs were stick
ing out through a broken window. Sh(
was not badly hurt. By the time thi
had been accomplished, other passenger
from forward coaches had come bacl
and helped all of those in the burn
ing car who could be reached. Mr.
Rost states that he saw the body of on
woman jammed in the roof of the burn
ing coachand that it was not reache,
by the rescuers. The body Of anothe
woman pinioned under heavy wreck
age, was consumed in full view of tn
passengers who gathered about tn
wreck. Mr.. Rost believes that he say
the body of still third woman wedge
between the timbers of the burnin
coach, but before he could get closer tn
fire and smoke and steam obscured hi
view.