The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-01
Other Two Victims to Have
Been United Sunday.
Maggie Marney and Edward
Smith Find Union in Death.
ONLY ONE is ALIVE.
Mrs. Fred Smith Tells How Ac-
cident Happened.
Young People Returning From
Dance at st. Marys.

Three persons We're instantly killed
and another perhaps fatally injured
shortly after 1 o'clock this morning at
Bonds crossing. about two miles west
of Rossville, by the Union Pacific pas
senger train No. 3, west-bound. The
killed are:
FRED SMITH
EDWARD D. SMITH
MISS MAGGIE MARNEY.
Mrs. Fred Smith may recover, al
though at noon today she was still un-
conscious and was in a delirious con-
dition.
Mrs Smith was a bride of less than
a week, having been married on Sun
day, and Miss Maggie Marney was to
have been married next Sunday to Ed
ward Smith, one of the unfortunate
men.
Edward and Fred Smith were broth
ers. both prosperous young farmers
whose parents also live near Rossville
They had been to st. Marys to attend
a Woodman dance and were return
ing home when the accident occurred.
They were driving a team of horses al
tached to a double-seated carriage,
when they crossed the Union Pacific at
Bonds crossing, and the engine OF the
Union Pacific passenger train crashed
into them.
The bodies Of the killed were terribly
mangled, and Miss Marney's head was
completely severed from her body.
Both the horses were instantly killed,
and the carriage was smashed.
The engineer did not see the carriage
until after the engine had struck It. He
Immediately brought his train to a
sfanHcffn and the hndfEC 7f dead
and Mrs. Smith, who was unconscious
were taken on board and were carried
to St. Marys- They were taken to
Rossville early this morning, accom-
priest Father DeSmedt, and an inquest
was held a 9 o'clock.
Mrs Fred Smith is receiving the best
of medical care and attention She
talks in a rambling manner and knows
nothing of what has occurred. She is
not aware that her husband was killed.
She suffered a severe shock and one
arm and an ankle were broken The
recovery.
Miss Maggie AIarney was the daughter
of William Marney, we'll known farm
er Of that vicinity. She was to have
been married to Edward Smith next
Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Smith the bride of two
days whose husband met a horrible
death at the Bond crossing, gave the
first coherent account Of the accident to
a State Journal reporter this afternoon.
We were married in Topeka at the
home of my sister, Mrs. H. Z. Van
Week at 220 East Fifth street said
she. we went down to Topeka on
Saturday and were married Saturday
evening We were at the home of my
sister until Monday afternoon when we
went to ROssville Ed met US at the
train. He had asked his father for a
team and got double seated carriage
fsr Dose ID h.,
Vane ranch where we got Maggie Mar
ney and we then went to the dance at
St. AIarys
When we We're coming home Fred
and were on the front seat and Fred
was driving We had the side curtains
on. We got on the wrong road and we
had to turn north and were compelled
to cross the tracks again. We had al
ready crossed them once. AS We drove
onto the tracks the train hit us and I
don't remember anything more The
engineer did not whistle"
Mrs. Smith was Miss Nina Vieu. She
is a young woman of prepossessing ap-
pearance. She appears to scarcely re-
alize the terrible fate of her husband,
brother-in-law and friend. 1t was at
first thought that her ankle had been
broken but it now appears that this is a
mistake She is not seriously injured
and viii be able to be out in a few
days.
Engineer Emmett Lewis of the Union
Pacific train that caused the death Of
the three young people was Frustrated.
He went with the train as far as juno
tion City where he turned the engine
over to substitute, being unable to GO
farther. The conductor Of the train was
F. S. Fields and both the engineer and
conductor are attending the inquest this
afternoon.
The parents of Fred and Ed Smith.
the two young men who We're killed,
live two miles from ROssville. They
were worried over the nOn-appearance
of their sons but did not know of the
accident until this forenoon when Floyd
MCPHERSON drove out and informed
then. Mrs smith tainted and was in
serious condition but is better this after
noon. Neither the father nor mother
knew that the young people had been
married.
The bodies of the dead were all fright
fully crushed. Fred Smiths legs and
one arm were broken, his neck was also
broken and one side was crushed.
Ed Smiths side was crushed and his
legs were broken.
The car wheels had passed directly
over Maggie Marney's head and face
and the top of her skull was found ly-
ing beside the track
Claim Agent Peterson, of the Union
Pacific IS on the ground and with hinN
is Photographer John Strickrott who