The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-11
SEVENTEEN PERSONS ARE
KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
Terrible Head End Collision on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad in Missouri.
MAN. u the Passengers Are Frighfully Scaded BY
Escaping Steam-CarS Take Fire.

Kansas City. No. July 1O.-Seventeen
persons are dead. two probably fatally
Injured and a number of others less
seriously hurt as a result of a head-end
collision between passenger and fast
livestock trains on the Chicago & Alton
railroad near Norton, Mo- at o'clock
mis- morning.. Six were killed outright,
tnree died or a train conveying them
TO Kansas City, and seven died in hos
pitals in this city.
The Dead.
Daniel NtcA1na. Slater, No, con-
duclor of freight train.
p J. Anderson. Slater, No, engineer
OF freight train.
Frank Briggs engineer OF passenger
train.
l. $. Rogers, Chicago, United States
Express company messenger
Mrs. Gilland OF GOOdland, Ind.
ID. w. Hooker of SyracuS n Y,
died on train.
Mrs. c. w. Snyder, Jasper n. Y.
died on train
~ /. Roy. cashier of the Wilmington
QlsD bank. died on train.
Sydney Jones. Kansas City. died at
st. J0seDn's hospital.
Daniel Donueliy, Mexico, Mo, Ere
man Of freight train, died at Univer-
SHY hospital.
Mrs. r. J. Curtis, Genesee, II. Y, died
at University hospital.
Unidentified young woman, supposed
10 be a daughter Of Mrs. Curtis.
Mrs Dickson, 81 years old, died at
University hospital
Miss Lulu Rider, IS years cid, Kent
land. Ind.
Mrs. Frances Walker, Brooklyn, N.
Y. mother of Arthur Walker, Denver,
died at St Joseph's hosp al.
Mrs. s. A. ID. Harry OF HOCpestOWns
lis.
Aged unidentified woman, died at St.
JOseph's hospital.
Injured.
O. D. Sanborn. Chenoa, Ills, head,
hand ana face scalded,
h. A. Kaufmef, Chicago, back and
arms s4rained.
Mrs Bertha c. Mitchell and Mrs.
Newton Mitchell. Pontiac, Ills, hands
Rnd face Scslded.
Or. j. ID. AIsit, wife and baby.
HoopestOwn. Ills, hands and face
burned.
Mrs Libbie E1Izins. Bloomington, Ills,
hands and face scalded.
Badly Scalded and Hurt.
Margaret Finucane. Troy, Kan.
S1ia Hardy. HooDestown, Ills.
a.. y. Null. Mexico, Mo.
Gus Williams lcolored porter, New
Orleans.
Miss sadie E. Taylor. Wilmington
lis.
Mrs. J. A. Miller. Bloomington. Ills.
Julia NJ Hayslip. ChenOa, Ills.
Le0na Miller, Bloomington. Ills.
Professor S. A. D. Harry, Hopes
town Ills.
Leslie L. Coleman. Paw Paw. Wis.
Mrs. Frances Walker, FlatbuSh
Brooklyn, face and chest and hands
badly scalded; inhaled steam; now un-
conscious a letter from her son. Ar
thur Walker, at Denver, found on her
person
An unidentified elderly woman. IN
conscious.
Those named above are at St. Jo-
Eeph's hospital At University hospital
are the following.
Miss Emma Dickson, Wilmington
Ills. face ana arms burned.
Eli Walker, Louisville, @, slight
bruises.
Mrs. Katherine Walker, Louisville,
O.. limbs and face cut.
G.. P. Dickson, Fairbury, Ills, slightly
bruised
Hiss Ora TOllman. Valparaiso, Ind,
face and arms burned.
Mrs Levi Archer. Cromwell, Ind, left
arm fractured and burned, and face
cut.
Mrs. Mary Mayer. Louisville, o.,
Slightly bruised.
Mrs Anna Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind,
face and arms badly burned.
j. - BRAY. Chicago. neck sprained-
head cut and internal injuries
Miss Lottie sun. HOrnellsville, n. Y,
face, arms and hands badly burned
Miss Hilda Hayslip, Chenoa, MS,
back, shoulders. head and face seri-
Ously scalded.
Mr. f. NJ aayslip. Chenoa, Ills. head
Cut, hands and wrists burned.
Mrs O.. w Snyder. Jasper, Ills, face
and arms burned.
Leslie s. Coleman of Pawpaw, Mich,
Rill not live through the night. nor win
Airs. .. d. Adsit of HOopestOwn, us,
vie Of DR.. Adsit
E.ow the Wreck Occurred.
The Passenger train was travelling in
three sections, on account of the heavy
EpWOrth League business 20 san Fran
CISCO. The wrecked train was the first
section, and contained no ieagUers,
conductor McAuna of the freight frain,
eaSJ-bound, had been ordered to meet
TIE second section of the passenger al
S-ater- the next station east of Nor
ton- bG apparently overlooked the fact