Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-07-17
ONE SHORT OF A SCORE
Tells the Number of Dead in the
Wreck on the Alton In
Missouri.
TOTAL WILL REACH -FOUR
When the Final Death Roll Is Made Up
Most of the Victims Were
Epworth Leaguers.

Kansas City, Mo, July 11.-Nine-
teen persons are dead and large num-
Der of others severely hurt as a result
of a head-end collision between pas
senger and fast live stock trains on
the Chicago and Alton railroad near
Norton, Mo-, at a. IN. yesterday.
Kansas City, July 12.-Of the TWEEN
ty-four persons injured in the Alton
wreck who are still in Kansas City
hospitals two are close to death, and
three others are fatally hurt but will
probably survive a day or two. Five
yesterday morning. A revised list of
the nineteen dead follows: Mrs. ]. S.
Adsit, aged %, Hoopeston, Ills; Mrs.
Hulda Hayslfp, 81, Chenoa, Ills; Mrs.
S. A. ID. Harry, 60, Hoopeston, Ills;
Rev. u. w. Hooker IL, Syracuse, N.
Y; Mabel Ross, %, Kentland, Ind:
Miss Lulu Ryder, %, Kentland, Ind;
Mrs. Lorena Gilman, 80, Goodland,
Ind; Mrs. S. l.. Ray, 60, Wilmington,
Ills; Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon, 60, Will
mington, Ills.-all excursionists to Ep-
worth League convention, San Fran
cisco; Mrs. Frances Walker, 6S, Brook
iyn, n. Y; Mrs. Rhoda J. Curtis, So,
Simpson, Kan; Daniel Donnelly, fire.
man; Daniel McAnna, conductor Of
freight train; p. j. Anderson, engineer
Of freight train; Frank Briggs, engi
neer of passenger train; l. S. Rogers,
United States Express messenger, Chi
cago; Sydney Jones (probably), 45, Chi
cago; two unknown men, burned and
mangled beyond recognition.
Others Whose Fate Is to Die.
Leslie S. Colburn, aged "a, of Paw
Paw, Mich, and Miss Lottie l.. STILL
&c, of Hornellsville, N. Y, are not ex-
pected to live. Colburn is the "Cole-
man" reported dead in these dispatches
yesterday. He was scalded on face
and arms and his right leg and arm
broken. He is at st. Joseph's hospi-
tai. Miss Stills arms. face and Shout
ders We're badly scalded, and she is
unconscious most of the time. She is
at University hospital. The follow
ing are fatally injured: Mrs. Annie
Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind. aged 81;
Miss Ora L. Tollman, "a, daughter of
Mrs. Morrison, Valparaiso, Ind; Mrs.
C. w Snider. Jasper, Ills. A; Miss
hailed steam.
These will Probably Recover.
Seriously but not fatally injured-E.
G. Bray, Chicago, 80, neck strained and
bruised about head and body; DR.. J. S.
Adsit, Hoopeston, Ills, 40, hands
scalded: Professor s. A. ID. Harry,
Hoopeston, Ills, 49, hands and arms
scalded, artery in left arm cut; Miss
Dora Wickwire, Goodland Ind, %, hip
dislocated and leg broken; Miss Emma
Dixon, Wilmington, Ills, extensive
burns on body.
The following patients left the hos
pitfalls for their homes yesterday: Mrs.
Dora Johnson and her 6-year- old son,
and Mrs. Libbie Elkins, Bloomington,
Ills: C. E. Null, Mexico, Mo-;
e. n. Hayslip, Chenoa. Ills.
The case of Hayslip is ex-
tremely painful. Although badly
burned and in serious condition, the
enormity of his affiiction made it nee
essary for him to leave the hospital
last night. His wife, Mrs Hulda
Hayslip. died Wednesday night at the
University hospital, and his daughter
Miss Julia Hayslip. was, when he left
in a dying condition at st. Joseph's
hospital. He took the body OF his
wife home and will return for his
daughter.
Most of the Hurt Were Epworths.
The hospital attendants report that
the less seriously injured patients are
Improving rapidly. The friends Of
Mrs. S. A. ID. Harry, Of Hoopeston,
Ills. who died early yesterday at St.
Joseph's hospital, have sent numerous
kilograms to the hospital making in
curry about funeral arrangements.
No arrangements will be made until
the arrival of Judge Harry from
Hoopeston Most of the injured were
Epworth League excursionists en- route
to San Francisco, and were in the tour
ist car, in which the greatest havoc
was wrought. Most of the uninjured
and slightly injured leaguers have pro-
ceeded on their journey.