Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-02-28
Terrible Disaster on the Mis-
SOuri-Pacific Railroad
Last Night.
FAST TRAINS COLLIDE
Flames Add Their Fury to the Hor-
ror of the Wreck--Piti-
full Scenes.
Among the Dead Is the Wife of j.
e.. Sehmidlapp of Cincinnati.
oE Pleasure Tour.

Kansas City. Feb. a freigh,
train stuck in the snow on the Mis-
souri, Pacific road. II miles out of this
city last evening delayed the fast st
Louis express. Blinded by the driy-
ing storm OF snow the engineer OF the
st. Louis local passenger train, run
ming ~ miles an hour, did not see the
signal lights displayed by the delayed
flyer and dashed into the latter.
Such was the force OF the collision
that the parIor car that was in the
rear of the first train was literally
cur in two. When Engineer Frank
Raymond and his fireman escaped
from the wreck. they crawled out
through the windows OF the parlor
car.
Fir, aade to the horors OF the
Y, ret . Goals rom the fu. mace of the
sAatf red Ell ne having fallen among
tie & bris OF he splintered coach and
5 IN ne VII .e wreck was abl se.
Iii. IL Ros a far1 er. near WI sc
pee The w ck occurred. and VINO
was one Of the very 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 We're crack
ling through the splintered woodwork
of the car at one end, while at the
other end cloud of blistering 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.
Mr.. Rost's first act was to pull from
the wreck woman whose legs were
sticking through broken window,
She was not badly hurt. By the time
this had been accomplished other pas
sengers from the forward coaches had
come back and helped out all of those
in the burning car who could be 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 reached into the burn
ing debris and tried to drag her out,
but she was pinioned under heavy
wre,kage. Mr.. Rost says the young
woman was apparently dead. as he
reached her hand and there was no
response to his efforts at rescue. He
describes the woman as about %
anu n ieavner sshare1afne hung from
her waist. The known dead are:
Mrs. ]. G.. Schmidlapp. Cincinnati, in
stantly killed; body recovered.
Unknown woman, body consumed
in wreck.
The injured:
]. G.. Schmidlapp, Cincinnati. will re-
cover.
Miss Schmidlapp. Cincinnati scald-
ed. will lose sight of both eyes.
Mrs. j. Bake Cincinnati mother of
Mrs. Schmidlapp. badly scalded, eye
sight lost. but may recover.
W r. Vaughn. Cincinnati. newspa-
per reporter. scalded and right arm
crushed. amputarion necessary.
l. +. sheldon. Sedalia. assistant
superintendent of telegraph of Mis-
sour Pacific. painfully scalded.
Brakeman Frank McAfee. st. Louis.
badly bruised
Mrs. Elizabeth Peters. Kansas City,
scaided.
Mrs Elizabeth Lee. Cincinnati
scalded
All of the injured We're taken TO the
University hospital in this city.
Mr.. Schmidlapp is president of the
Union Savings Bank and Trust com
paay of Cincinnati: of the Export
Storage company. of the Clifton
Springs Distilling company and of
cher enterprises in that city. He is
connected with very many industries
there and in Ohio and kentucky, and
is considered multimillionaire.
LATER.
KANSAS CITY, February 2S.-Of
the injured in last night 5 wreck all
are reported improving except Miss
Schmidlapp who cannot live The
body of the unknown woman is still
under the wreck. 1t is said the
weather conditions were such that
the wreck could not have been avert
ed
MISS SCHMIDLAPP DEAD.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, February Is
Miss Emma Schmidlapp died at 1913
TODAY. She never was conscious
after the wreck. Her father, in an
adjoining ward, is ignorant of her
A., {. y a. yx-all ~ tho death nf his rife