The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-11
TOURIST CAR TELESCOPED
AND MOST OF ITS OCCUPANTS sCALD-
ED BY ESCAPING STEAM.
Mrs. Gilman, OF GoodIand, Ind, Among
the Dead-Epworth League
Special Trains Safe.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 10.-The full
horror Of the train wreck on the Chicago
& Alton Railroad. near Norton Mo-, this
morning. when a west-bound passenger
train collided with a fast live stock train,
both going at good speed. was not realized
until tonight, when train loaded with
bruised and scalded people arrived here
and transferred its sufferers to the hos
pitals. First reports OF the accident indi-
Gated that four trainmen and two passen-
gers were killed outright. OF the wounded
who started for this city four were dead
before the train arrived, and six passed
away at the hospitals before midnight.
making sixteen deaths up to the present
time. In ST. Josephs and University hos
pitfalls are thirty persons, at least two of
whom are expected to die. The physicians
will not give opinion as to the condition
of the sufferers. Most OF them were
scalded by the steam that issued from the
locomotives. both OF which we're wrecked
and piled up in a heap OF wreckage with
two of the passenger cars. Identification
OF those of the dead who passed away
without regainins consciousness was diff
fcult owing to the fact that clothing had
been hastily stripped from the bodies In
order TO give relief TO the tortured flesh.
Two OF the bodies are unidentified-one a
young woman killed at the wreck and sup
posed to be a daughter OF Mrs. r. j. Cur
tis, Of Geneseo, N. Y, and the other a
gray-haired woman. who died late tonight
at st. Joseph's Hospital. Ten bodies are
at various undertaking establishments. The
bodies of four of the dead trainmen are
at Slater. Mo. The wounds of the victims
are very painful, being severe scalds and
burns They are receiving the best of
treatment. \ man who died tonight at
st. Joseph's Hospital is known to be named
Jones. and 1t is believed he is from Chi
cago. He was first supposed to be from
Kansas City His clothes were destroyed.
The Dead.
DANIEL NJ. MAMMA, Slater, Mo-. con-
ductor OF freight train.
p. J. ANDERSON. Slater. No. engineer
FRANK BRIGGS, engineer of passenger
train.
I. S. ROGERS. Chicago United States
Express Company messenger.
MRS. GILMAN, of Goodland. Ind.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
These six were killed outright.
q. w. HOOKER. OF Syracuse. N. Y. died
train.
MRS. C. w. SNYDER. Jasper N. Y,
died On train.
g. L. ROY. cashier of the Wilmington
GILL Bank. died on train.
SYDNEY JONES. Kansas City. died In
st. Joseph's Hospital.
DANIEL DONNELLY. Mexico Mo-. fire.
Hospital
REV. r. ]. CURTIS. Geneseo, N. Y. died
at University Hospital.
Unidentified young woman, supposed to
be daughter OF Mrs. Curtis.
MRS. DICKSON, sixty-seven years old.
died at University Hospital
MISS LULU RIDER. twenty-five years of
age. Kentland
girl OF twenty. supposed to be Mrs
Dickson's daughter. died at University Hos
pital.
The Injured.
o. ID. SANBORN. Chenoa. ILL.,. head
hand and face scalded.
E. A. KAUFMEFF. Chicago. back and
arms sprained
MRS. BERTHA MITCHELL. Pontiac.
ILL.,, hand and face scalded.
DR. ]. ADSIR, wife and baby. Hoopeston.
Ill. hand and face burned.
MRS. LIBBIE ELKINS. Bloomington,
Ill. hands and face scalded.
The following were badly scalded:
MARGUERITE FINUCANE. Troy Kan
ZOLA HARRY. Hoopeston. ILL.,
c. f. NULL. Mexico. Mo.
GUS WILLIAMS (colored). porter. New
Orleans.
MISS SADIE Z. TAYLOR. Wilmington.
MRS. ]. A. MILLER. Bloomington, III.
JULIA NJ. HAYSLIP. Chenoa. H.
LEONA MILLER. Bloomington. ILL.,
MRS. S A. u. HARRY
PROF. S. A. d. HARRY Hoopeston. Ill
LESLIE L. COLEMAN. Pawpaw. Mich.
MRS. WALKER. supposed TO be from
Chicago. is unconscious.
AN UNIDENTIFIED elderly woman. un-
conscious
MRS. FRANCES WALKER Flatbush
Brooklyn. face. chest and hands badly
scalded; inhaled steam still unconscious
at 81. Joser-l Hospital.
AT University Hospital
MISS EMMA DICKSON, Wilmington. Ill.
face and arms burned
ELI WALKER. Louisville. o., slight
bruises.
MRS, KATHERINE WALKER. Louis
vile. o., limbs and face cut
G. p. DICKSON Falrbury. H.. slightly
bruised
MISS ORA TOLLMAN. Valparaiso Ind.
face and arms burned.
MRS. LEVI ARCHER. Cromwell, Ind,