Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-07-11
ERROR OF CONDUCTOR
Sends Fourteen Souls to Eternity
in a Bad Wreck on the
Alton.
MANY OTHERS AREsEvERELY HURT
Trains Meet on a Curve Top of
High Embank-
ment.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 11.-Four-
teen persons are dead and a large num-
Der of others severely hurt rs Il result
OF Il head-end collision between pas
senger and fast live stock trains on
the Chicago and Alton railroad near
Norton. Mo, at . a. m. yesterday. Six
We're killed outright, four died on u
train conveying them TO Kansas City
and four others died later. The dead
are: Daniel McAnna. Slater. Mo, con
| ductor Of freight train; l.. j. Ander-
son, slater. Mo. engineer of freight
| train; Frank Briggs, engineer of pas
senger train: l. =. Rogers. Chicago,
United States Express company mes
senger; Mrs. Gifland and daughter. OF
Goodland. Ind.-these six killed out
right: ID. W. Hooker. of Syracuse, y.
Y. died on train; Mrs. c. w. Snyder.
Jasper, y. Y. died on train; G.. l.. Roy.
/ cashier of the Wilmington ulls.l bank,
| died on train: Sydney Jones. Kansas
| City. died in st. .Joseph's hospital;
4 Daniel Donnelly. of Mexico. Mo. fire
man of freight train; Mrs. X. J. Curtis.
/ Genesee. y. Y: Mrs. Dickson. "a years
old; Miss Lulu Rider. aged 23. Kent
land. Ind.-these four died at Univer-
sity hospital.
List of Those Badly Hurt.
The following were badly scalded:
Marguerite Finucane. Troy. Kan;
| lola Harry. Hoopeston. Ills; &. T..
Null. Mexico. Mo; Gus Williams (coI-
| oredD. porter. New Orleans; Miss Sa-
die +. Taylor. Wilmington, Ills; Mrs.
]. A. Miller. Bloomington. Ills; Julia
NJ. Hayslip. Chenoa. Ills: Leoua Mil
Ter Bloomington. Ills; Mrs. :. \. ID.
Harry and Professor :. \. II. Harry.
Hoopeston, Ills; Leslie l.. Coleman,
Paw Paw. Mich; Mrs. Walker, sup
posed TO be from Chicago.
Others injured are: c. ID. Sanborn,
ChenOa. Ills, head. hand and face
scalded: +. \. Kaufmeff. Chicago. back
and arm sprained: Mrs. Bertha Mitch
ell, Pontiac. Ills. hand and face scald-
ed: DIR. J. Adsir, wife and baby.
HOopeStou. Ills. hands and faces
burned: Mrs. Libbie ElkinS, Blooming
ton, Ills. hands and face scalded.
No Epworth Leaguers Aboard.
rhe passenger train was travelling
in three sections on account of the
heavy Epworth League business TO San
Francisco. The wrecked train was
tine first section and contained no
leaguers. Conductor McAnna. of the
freight train. eaSt-bound. had been or
dered to meet the second section of the
passenger at Slater. the next station
east of Norton. but apparently over
looked the fact that the first section.
which was fifty-five 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 on
leaving Marshall. and was running the
engine when the collision occurred.
The trains met two miles west of Nor
ton. on curve surrounding a high
embankment.
Escaping Steam Did the Damage.
The trains cOllided while going at
a good rate of speed. The engines
Were pushed TO either side of the
track and practically demolished. while |
the forward ears of the passenger train
telescoped each other. The forward
Pullman and the tourist sleeper in
front were burned. The baggage car |
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 i'm the |
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 and |
were in worse condition than first
examination indicated