Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-07-11
WRECK Y IS A Bad SMASH
5Headon Collision on the Chicago and
Alton Road Proves to be .!s..4 .js
a* u Serious Smash. .i"$ $$.5ss' b
Trains Collided at Rapid Rate Of
) Speed and Two Of the Cars were
- EH.@ 1Telescoped. VI. *
Twenty Five Persons Injured Beside
s& the Eight Killed, and More May I.
m be Added. II. -. .,:.>*

II Kansas City, July 11:-Chicago and
Alton passenger train Mo-, west
bound, headon, with the second Sec
tion Of freight train No. SS, going east,
near Norton, Mo-, 100 miles east of
Kansas City. -, ..~,.. ~.
Eight people were killed outright
and about twenty-five more or less in
jured. In a. fire that started: from
the, demolished engines the dining
car and one chair car were partially
burned. It is feared other victims
are in the wreck. The dead, as far as
known, follows:
Daniel Mccain, conductor of freight,
Slater, Mo-; D. J. Anderson, engineer
freight, Slater, Mo-; three unknown
men, supposed to be tramps on blind
baggage; old woman, unidentified;
young woman, dark hair; Frank
i Briggs, engineer passenger train, body
t under wreck; I. S. Rogers, United
States Express messenger, Chicago.
The trains collided while going at a
rapid rate. Both engines were de-
molished and the forward cars tele-
scoped. Both engineers, the freight
conductor and .Baggageman Racer
were killed outright, as were three
passengers. Most of the damage ap-
pears to have been done in the comb.
nation smoker following the baggage
car, these cars being pushed into the
space of one car by the terrific i'm
pact of the collision.
Among the passengers was B. L. Nc.
Claim, general agent. of the passenger
department In Kansas City Of the Chi.
cago and Alton railroad. Mr. McC1ain
escaped unhurt and Immediately after
the crash set about organizing syste
matte relief. 7%7~> -s
"Details Hard to Secure.
In a message to the local Office NC
Claim recited simply the fact of the
wreck, adding that the train took fire
soon after the collision and that al
the time his message was sent the
cars were burning. Nothing has been
received from; him since: and at the
Office Of the superintendent Of the
road it is stated that owing to the con,
fusion at the scene it has been i'm.
possible to obtain details.
The dead will be brought to Kansas
City. The injured will be taken tenn
porarily to Marshall, the next station
west. -: -
The passenger train was due at
Marshall at 6:44 but was 55 minutes
late. The freight, eastbound; left Mar.
shall at 1928, in an attempt to make
Norton, and met the passenger five
miles east Of here. When the crash
came the smoker and diner telescoped.
turned to lone side and went by the
baggage car and then down an en-
bankment. Few in this car were in
jured. In the chair car half a dozen
received scratches but the greatest
number Of victims were those in the
tourist sleeper. This car telescoped
and fell on top of the engine. The
passengers were horribly scaIded by
escaping steam. The chair car piled
up nearby. The Pullman and the OBJ
servation car remained On the tracks.
Their occupants escaped with slight
shaking up and went quickly to the
aid of the injured in the forward cars.
The tourist sleeper and the chair car
soon caught fire and were quickly
burned. Wreckage was piled high and
it is feared several bodies are still
underneath. The baggage car was
completely (, wrecked Freight cars
were piled UP on both engines and
also caught fire. a.; r +, Fy$ ss,>,