The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-18
SIXTEEN KILLED IN
WRECK ON ALTON.
Terrible Head-End Collision Near
the Town Of Norton,
Missouri.
AND PASSENGER MEET
Trains Collide While Going at Good
Rate of Speed, and Many Are Killed
and 1njured-List of
Victims.

Kansas City. July 12.-The horror Of
| the train wreck on the Chicago and AL
| ton railroad near Norton, Mo-, yester-
| day morning, when a westbound pas
senger train collided with fast live
stock train, was not realized until last
night, when a train loaded with bruised
and scalded people arrived here and
transferred it's sufferers to the hos
| pitfalls. First reports Of the accident
| indicated that four trainmen and two
passengers We're killed outright. OF
the wounded who started for this city
four were dead before the train ar
rived and six passed away at the hos
| pitfalls before midnight making sixteen
| deaths up to the present time. In st.
Josephs and University hospital are
| thirty persons, at least two Of whom
are expected to die. Most Of them
were scalded by the steam that issued
| from the locomotives, both Of which
Were wrecked and piled up in a heap Of
debris with two of the passenger cars
Identiications Of those of the dead
who passed away without regaining
| consciousness was difficult, owing to
! the fact that the clothing had been
| hastily stripped from the bodies in or
| der to give relief to the tortured flesh.
! Two of the bodies are unidentified
J one a young woman killed at the wreck
| and supposed to be a daughter of Mrs.
! r. j. Curtis, of Genesee, n. Y, and the
i other a gray haired woman who died
| late last night at st. Joseph's hospital.
The bodies are at various undertaking
establishments. The bodies of four of
| the dead trainmen are at Slater, Mo.
The wounds of the patients are pain
full, being severe scalds and burns.
no hac of
:, A man who died last night at St.
Joseph's hospital is,known to be named
Jones, and it is believed he is from
| Chicago. He was at first supposed to
be a resident of Kansas City. His
clothes We're destroyed.
Thirteen slightly injured We're taken
to Marshall, Mo.
The Dead and Injured
The dead:
I DANIEL MAMMA. Slater, Mo-, con
ductor of freight train.
P. j. ANDERSON, Slater, Mo-, en-
gineer of freight train
FRANK BRIGGS, engineer of pas
senger train.
I. S. ROGERS, Chicago, United
Etates Express company messenger.
MRS. GILLAND and daughter. of
Goodland, Ind.
These six were killed outright.
: D. w. HOOKER, of Syracuse, N. Y,
died on the train.
G. L. ROY, cashier of the Whining
ton, Ill, band, died on train.
SYDNEY JONES, Kansas City, died
in ST. Josephs hospital.
DANIEL DONNELLY, Mexico. Ia.
fireman of freight train, died at Uni
yersity hospital.
MRS. r. J. CURTIS, Geneseo, N. Y.
died at University hospital.
| Unidentified young woman, supposed
to be a daughter Of Mrs. Curtis.
MRS. DICKSON, 81 years old, died
at University hospital.
A beautiful girl of 20, supposed to be
Mrs. Dickson's daughter, died at Uni
yersity hospital.
The Injured:
o. D. sanburn, Cheon, ILL.,, head hand
and face scalded.
E. A. Kaufmeff Chicago, back and
arms sprained.
Mrs Bertha Mitchell Pontiac, Ill.
hand and face scalded.
DR.. j. Adsir, wife and baby, Hopes
ton Ill.,, hands and faces burned.
Mrs. Libbie Elkins, Bloomington, Ill.
hands and face. scalded.
Are Badly scAlded.
The following We're badly scalded.
Marguerite Funcane, Troy, AKIN.
Zola Harry, Hoopston, ILL.,
Gus Williams, colored, porter, New
J Orleans.
Miss Sadie E. Taylor, Wilmington
!; Ill.
Julia M. Haysip, Chenoa, H.
n Leona Miller, Bloomington, Ill.
Mrs. S. A. D. Harry and Prof. S. A
D. Harry, Hoopston, III.
Leslie L. Coleman, Pawyaw, Mich
Mrs. Frances Walker Brooklyn, N
Y, face, chest and hands badly scalded
; inhaled steam; still unconscious.
conscious.
The passenger train was travelling il
three sections on account of the heavy
Epworth league business to San Fran
cisco. The wrecked train was the frs
section and contained no leaguers
Conductor McAnna, Of the freigh
train, eastbound, had been ordered t.
meet the second section of the passen
ger at Slater, the next station east O.
: Norton, but apparently overlooked The
fact that the first section, which wa.
fifty-flve minutes late, mad not passed
The front brakeman on the freight
who was about four cars from the en-
CINE says Conductor McAnna assumed
. the throttle himself on leaving Mar
shall, and was running the engin,
when the collision occurred. The train
met two miles west of Norton on ;
curve surmountiag high embank
ment.
A relief train started from Kansa.
City at noon, and returned here will
! the injured at o'clock last evening
Those who died en- route We're taken t
} an undertaker's, while the injured wer,
. distributed among two hospitals.
The six killed outright were left a
Slater.
The trains collided while going at
good rate of speed. The engines were
pushed to either side of the track anc
practically demolished, while the for
ward cars Of the passenger train tele
. scoped each other.
The forward Pullman and the tour
jst sleeper in front We're burned. Tn,
baggage car was wrecked, and freigh
cars We're piled up on both engines ant
burned. The train Which was wrecked
was one of the finest passenger train!
in the United States. The equipmen
was all new. including the sleeping
cars, coaches, baggage car and locomo
, | tive.
: On the arrival at Kansas City of tn,
train bearing the wounded the suf
ferers We're taken TO st. Joseph's hos
pital and University hospital, wher,
everything possible was done for them
On the journey from Slater, Mo-, fou
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