Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-11
WORSE THAN REPORTED
Later Reports Show Facts About
the Alton Wreck We're
Suppressed.
Sixteen Persons We're Killed in
the Collision--Others
Will Die.
The List of Injured Numbers
Forty--The Conductor
Is Blamed.

Kansas City. July IL, Tire wreck on
the Alton near Morton, Mo. Was @5i.ss
than al first reported. The aeagh Is,
as reported early this morniae nun
bered sixteen and several Of the insured
Will die.
The greatest number IF he victims
Were those III the tourist sieep.sr, THIS
car telescoped and t=il 81 599 . sile
engine The passengers We're balp4d
and scaldea by escaping steam RE
chair ear piled up Close by The Puil-
man sleeper and CONSERVATION cai r.
manned ON the track, ami the oeeupanls
of theseears ESCAPED With d slighi SHAH
ing up.
The tourist sleeper and The HAIR eai
soon caught tire and Mere burned rhe
baggage car Mas wNecked aile the
freight cars wene pilfd ap OF both en-
gines and burned
Kansas city, Mo. July ll.-Tour-
teen persons are dead and a large uiim
Der of others severely lur, as a result
of head-end collision between pas
senger and fast live stock trains on
the Chicago and Alton railroad Hear
Norton Mo-. at a. u. yesterday SIX
We're Killed outright. four died on u
train conveying them to Kansas City
aud four Others died later Tie dead
are: Daniel McAnna Slater, Mo-. con
ductor Of freight train z. j. Ander-
son, Slater, Mo, engineer of freight
senger train; l. S Rogers, Chicago,
1'nifp1 St.,-pC Ti,,.S
eenger; Mrs liilland and daughter OF
Goodland. lnd.-rhese six killed out
right: p. w. Hooker. of Syracuse. n
Y. died OH train; Mrs G. w snyder,
Jasper, n. y. died on train. q L. Roy,
cashier of the Wilmington lllls, bank,
died on train: sydney Jones Kansas.
City died in ST. .Iesephs hospital.
Daniel Donnely, of Mexico, Mo, fire.
man of freight train. Mrs r. j. Curtis.
Genesee, n Y Mrs Dickson, 81 years
old; Miss Lulu Rider. aged %. Kent
land. Ind.--these four died at Univer-
sty hospital.
List of Those Badly Hurt.
The following were badly scalded:
Marguerite Finucane, Troy. Kan;
lola Harry. Hoopeston, HIS; G. +.
Null. Mexico, Mo; Gus Williams cot
oredl, porter. New Orleans; Miss Sa-
die e. Taylor. Wilmington Ills. Mrs.
j. a. Miller Bloomington. ms; Julin
NJ. Hayslip chenos Ms. I.eona NIL
ler Bloomington, HIS. Mrs. S. A. ID.
Harry and Professor s. A. D. Harry,
Hoopeston, Ills; Leslie L. Coleman,
Paw Paw, Mich; Mrs. Walker sup
posed to be from Chicago.
Others injured are; c. D. Sanborn,
Chenoa. HIS. head. hand and face
ecalded: f A. Kaufmeff Chicago, back
and arm sprnlned; Mrs Bertha Mitch
ell, Pontiac, Ills hand and face scald-
ed; Or. j Adsir. wife and baby.
Hoopeston. Ills. hands and faces
burned: Mrs I.ibbie Elkins blooming
ton. Ills, hands and face scalded.
No Epworth Lenguer, Aboard.
The passenger train was travelling
in three sections on account of The
heavy Epworth League business to San
Francisco The wrecked train was
the frst section and eontained no
leaguers. Conductor McAnna. Of the
freight train. easthound. had been or
dered to meet the second section Of the
passenger nj Slater the next station
east Of Norton. but apparently over
looked the fact that the first section
which was fftv-tve minutes late, had
not passed The front brakeman on
the freight who was about four cars
from the engine. says Conductor Nc.
Anna assumed the throttle himself or
leaving Marshall. and was running tht
engine when the collision occurred
The trains met two miles west of Nor
ton. on a curve surmounting a higt
embankment
Escaping steam Did the Damage.
The trains collided while going a,
good rate Of speed. The engines
were pushed TO either side OF tn.
track and practically demolished whilt
the forward cars of the passenger trail
telsscoped each other The forward
Pullman and the tourist sleeper ii
front we're burned. The baggage On
was wrecked and freight cars were
piled up on both engines and burned
The train which was wrecked was one
of the finest passenger trains il til,
United States. The injured suffered
mostly from scalds due to escaping
steam from the wrecked locomotives
there being no broken limbs Some
Of the victims had inhaled steam aa(
We're In worse condition than a frs,
examin alton Indicated
MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSE
Amphitheatre Falls, Throwing 600 PEG