The Irish standard., 1901-07-13
EIGHT killed IN WRECK.
Twenty-Five Others Injured in
Terrible Disaster on Chicago
& Alton Road.
APAssEAGER AND A FREIGHT COLLIDE.

Disaster Occurs Near Norton, Mo-
Wreck III Partly Burned-Feared
Wreckage Relief Train Sent
Dead Taken to Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo-, July 11.-One of
the worst wrecks in several years on
the Chicago & Alton railroad oc-
CURED shortly after six o'clock
Wednesday morning near Norton,
Mo-, 100 miles east of Kansas City,
when passenger train No. z, west
bound, from Chicago, collided head
on with the second section of
freight train No. ss, going east.
Eight people were killed outright
and about rs more or less injured.
In fire that started from the de-
molished engines the dining car and
one chair car were partially burned.
It is feared that other victims are in
the wreck. The casualty list, as far
as known at noon, follows:
Casualty List.
DEAD-Dan McCanna, conductor of
freight, single, Slater, NO.; D. ]. Anderson,
engineer freight, Slater, Mo-, leaves wife
and three children; two unknown men, sup
posed to be tramps on blind baggage; old
woman. gray hair; young woman. dark
hair; Frank Briggs. engineer passenger
train, body under wreck, Slater, Mo-; I. s.
Rogers, United States Express messenger,
Chicago.
INJURED-E. c. Bray, Chicago, ISL State
street, shoe salesman, bruised about head,
IN MiSSC 10
Golden, Topeka, Ind, right hip hurt, not
serious; Miss Gusta A. Nelson, Topeka,
Ind, slight cuts on head; George B. Hill,
Gillian, Mo-, bad cut on knee; George
Adams. colored, New Frankfort Mo-, hurt
on side, not serious; Joseph Whittle, Gill
liam, Mo-, cut on left arm, head, leg
sprained; Mrs. lola Harry, Hoopeston, ILL.,,
scalded about face and arm, not serious;
Mrs. ]. s. Adsit, Hoopeston, ILL.,, scalded
about head and shoulders; Sidney Jones,
Kansas City, terribly scalded about head
and all over body; DR.. ]. s. Adsit, Hopes
ton, ILL.,, hands badly scalded. head slight
ly; Gus Williams (oolored), New Orleans.
porter on tourist sleeper, hands scalded,
rib broken; Mrs. c. w. Snyder, Jasper,
n. Y, hands and face badly scalded; Mrs.
Frances Walker, Flatbush, Brooklyn, face.
breast and hands badly scalded, inhaled
steam; Mrs. Lottie L. Still, Hornellsville,
N. z, 16 East avenue, face and arms scald-
ed; q. r. Dixon, Fairbury, face bruised,
both legs :scalded, not serious, was In smok-
Ing car; Prof. s. A. D. Harry, superintend-
badly scalded, face slightly, artery in arm
broken; Mrs. 8. A. D. Harry, scalded about
head, arms and chest; Miss Julia M. Hay
slip, Shenoa, ILL.,, face and arms scalded;
M. L. Hayslip, Shenoa, hands and face
scalded, not serious; o. 8. sanborn, shenoa,
Miss Anna Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind,
sca1ded about head and arms, not serious;
Miss Ora e. Tallman, Valparaiso, Ind,
slightly scalded about head and arms;
Miss Lulu Ridor. Kentland, Ind, badly
scalded on face, arms and back; Mrs. J. A.
Miller, Bloomington, ILL.,, scalded about
head. slight cuts on body, not serious: Leon
G. Miller, Bloomington, ILL.,, scalded and
cut, not serious; LIS. Levy Arch, Cromwell,
Ind, broken arm, hurt inside, serious; Miss
Dora Wickwire, Goodland, Ind. hip dis
located, not dangerous; 4. j. Elliott Far
Der, Mo-. slightly cut on head; Mary Bird,
Vandalia, Mo-, rib broken and bruised
about head. not serious; Sadie e. Taylor,
Wilmington, ILL.,, face and arms badly
scalded; Mrs. S. L. Ray, Wilmington, I'LL,
scalded about head and arms; L. S. Col
burn, Paw Paw, Mich, badly scalded on
face and arms, leg and arm broken; Dan
Donnelly, fireman on freight train, double
fracture jaw, eye injured; c. E. Null, Mex
leo, Mo-. United States Express messenger
helper, bruised on back and legs, not Sc
scalded about head and arms; Walter
Walsh and Adolph Kaufman, white cooks
on the diner, scalded. Walsh severely;
d. K. Hooker, Syracuse, N. Y, badly scald-
ed about head and arms, very old, not ex-
pected to recover; Mrs. New Mitchell and
and hands scalded, not serious.
Relief Trains Sent.
Relief trains started from Slater
at ten o'clock and from Kansas City
at 1880, each carrying a corps of
physicians.
The trains collided while going at
rapid rate, the engines being de-
molished and the forward cars tele-
scoped. Both engineers, the freight
conductor and Baggageman Racer
we're killed outright, as were three
other passengers, believed to be
women. Most of the damage appears
to have been done in the combina-
lion smoker following the baggage
ear, these cars being pushed into the
space of one car by the terrific i'm
pact of the collision. e.
A Among the passengers was B. L.
McClain, general agent of the pas
eSaSSA oSHdA o1llCAO LII hduSdS ClUy
Of the Chicago & Alton railroad. Mr..
McClain escaped unhurt and imme-
diately after the crash set about Or
ganizing a systematic relief of the
Injured, personally directing the eff
forts of the rescuers. In message
to the locaNoffice he recites simply
the fact of the wreck, adding that
the train took fire soon after the
collision occurred, and that at the
time his message was sent the cars
were burning. Nothing has been re-
ceived from him since, and at the Of
fee of the superintendent of the
road it is stated that because of the
confusion at the scene it has been
impossible to obtain more than mea-
ger details.
To Bring Dead to Kansas City.
The dead will be brought to Kan
sas City, and the injured taken tenn
porarily to Marshall, the next station
west. The relief train is not expect
ed back in Kansas City before $3.50
or three o'clock.
l. Conrad Eiler Dead.
Pana, ILL.,, July 11.-Conrad Eiler,
pioneer and the wealthiest resident
of Shelby county, died at his home
east of here, aged IS.
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