The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-07-12
PAYS PENALTY WITH HIS LIFE
Fast Live Stock Train Dashes Head on Against Passenger
Man Responsible for Accident Among
Those Killed Outright.

Kansas City, July 1O-The full hor-
ror of the train wreck on the Chicago
& Alton railroad near Norton, Mo,
this morning, when the west bound
;. passenger train collided with a fast
live stock train, both going at good
speed. was not realized until tonight
when the train loaded with bruised
and scalded people arrived here and
transferred it's sufferers to hospitals.
The first reports of the accident in
Dictated that four trainmen and two
passengers were killed outright. OF
the wounded who started for the city
four were dead before the train an
rived and six passed away at hospit-
ais before midnight, making 16 deaths
mp to the present time.
In st. Joseph's and University hos
pitfalls are 80 persons, at least two of
whom are expected to die. Physi-
clans will not give opinions as to
the condition of the sufferers, most
of them were scalded by the steam
that issued from the locomotives,
both of which were wrecked, and
piled up in a heap with two passen-
ger cars.
Identification of the dead who pass
ed away without gaining conscious
ness was difficult owing to the fact
that the clothing had been hastily
stripped from their bodies in order to
give relief to tortured flesh Two of
the bodies are unidentified, one a
woman killed at the wreck and sup
posed to be the daughter of Mrs. R.
J. Curtis of Geneseo, N. Y, and the
other a gray haired woman who died
late tonight at st. Joseph's hospital.
The dead are:
DANIEL MAMMA, Slater, Mo,
conductor of the freight train.
P. j. ANDERSON, Slater, Mo-, en-
gineer of freight train.
FRANK BRIGGS, engineer of pas
senger.
l. S. ROGERS, Chicago, United
States Express company messenger.
MRS. GILLAND AND DAUGHTER
of Goodland, Ind.
The six were killed outright.
D. w. HOOKER of Syracuse, N. Y,
died On train.
MRS. C. w. SNYDER, Jasper. N. Y,
died on train.
G. L. ROY, cashier of a Whining
ton bank, died on train.
SYDNEY JONES, Kansas City,
died in st. Joseph's hospital.
DAN DONNELLY, Mexico, fireman
of freight train, died at University
hospital.
MRS. R. B. CURTIS, Glenesco, N.
Y, died at University hospital.
MRS. DICKINSON, Wilmington,
Ills, 67 years old, died at University
hospital.
MISS LULU RIDER, Kentland,
Ind, aged Is years.
MRS. FRANCE WALKER of Flat
beach, Brooklyn, died at 1890 to.
hight at st. Joseph's hospital.
Aged unidentified woman taken to
st. Joseph's hospital died at II
O'Clock. She regained con.
seriousness and there was nothing
upon her person to give any hint OF
her identity.
Total deaths 16.
The injured are: O. D. Sanborn
Chenoa, Ills, head, hand and face
scalded; E. A. Kaufman, Chicago
back and arm sprained; Mrs. Bertha
Mitchell, Pontiac, Ills, hand and face
scalded; DR.. J. Adair, wife and baby
Hoopestown, Ills, hand and face
burned; Mrs. Libbie Elkins, Bloom
ington, Ills, hands and face scalded
The following were badly scalded
Marguerite Finucane, Troy, Kansas
Harry lola, Hoopestown, Ills, C. E
Null, Mexico, Mo-, Gus Williams, col
ored, porter, New Orleans; Miss S
e. Taylor, Wilmington, Ills, Mrs. J
A. Miller, Bloomington, Ills; Julia M
Hayslip, Chenoa, Ills; Leona Miller
Bloomington. Ills; Mrs. s. A. D. Har
ry, Prof. s. A. d. Harry, Hoopestown
Ills; Leslie L. Colman, Pawpaw
Mich.
The passenger train was travelling
In three sections on account of the
heavy Epworth league business at
San Francisco. The wrecked train
Waa the first sAction and contained