The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-09
Santa Fe Limited Is Wrecked
at Rothyille, Mo.
Fireman Heavlin, of Topeka,
and Engineer Wise Dead.
PASSENGERS ARE HURT
None Injured Fatally in the
Accident.
Train Left Track While Going
at High Speed.

The Santa F'e Limited, west bound
was wrecked at Rothyille, Mo-, Monday
afternoon and Engineer Samuel Wise of
Argentine and Alexander Heavlin of
1917 Buchanan street. Topeka, were
killed. John McKeon of New York was
the only passenger seriously hurt, bu,
he is not fatally hurt. Five others
were slightly injured.
The entire equipment of the train, ex-
cept the two rear sleepers, was piled up
along the track. The cause Of the wreck
is not known, but it is supposed to be
due to defective switch at the point
where the train left the track
The train left Chicago on time Sunday
evening at o'clock. in charge Of Con-
ductor Walter Stout. but was subjected
to delays from the start. Considerable
delay was caused by a wreck in this
Chicago yards, and another small
freight wreck down the line held it back
still farther. so that it was eight hours
behind schedule time when it reached
Marceline, shortly after noon yesterday.
1t had passed trains No. 1, and 7,
which had left Chicago ahead of it, at
Joliet, and was travelling at very high
rate of speed at the time the wreck oc-
CURED.
When the engine left the track it
Whlrled completely around and both the
engineer and fireman were pinned down
beneath it. Fireman Alex Heavlin suf-
tered fractures of the skull and other
injuries Engineer Samuel Wise was
terribly scalced by the escaping steam
being pinned down by the engine in such
way that he was unable to move, and
suffered fearful agony as the result of
his injuries Wise's home is in Argen..
tine. He is married and has severaa
4 children.
The anpine Wa. fo,Ioprsd % :. ,ae+ -,
/ track. by the mail and baggage cars, the
con bination smoker the diner and one
I sleeper. Most of the injured were walters
and cooks in the dining car.
The only passenger seriously injured
was John McKeon, of New York, who was
seriously bruised about the hips. He was
taken to Kansas City and taken to the
Baltimore hotel, and it was decided that
his injuries were not dangerous.
The engineer and fireman and the other
employees of the company who were in
jured, were taken back to Fort Madison,
in one of the Pullmans which remained
intact, while the passengers, twenty-three
l in number, were brought on in the other
car which was attached to No. 10. the
local train from Fort Madison, Ia, which
is due in Kansas City at 6:35. They left
! the scene of the wreck shortly after four
I clock. A train was made up in Kansas
i City to go on to California, and most of
! the passengers went on with that train
"A few of them stayed over night in Kan
sas City, including Rabbi Emil c. Hirsch
4 Chicago; NJ B. Grubb. Chicago; John T.
! AfcKeon, New York; Mile. Marcelle Soude
/ Chicago.
Among the passengers on the train were
! Congressman G. A. Loud. of Michigan
| and Rabbi Emil Hirsch, the well known
Jewish divine of Chicago. Neither of them
was injured in the wreck Congressman
Loud was in one of the rear coaches, which
did not leave the track and as soon as
the accident occurred he rushed forward
to the engine and lent active assistance
| in extrfcating the engineer and fireman
from the wreckage.