Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-08-13
RAN INTO A FREIGHT
A Santa Fe Passenger Train Meets
with an Accident.
FIVE PERSONS REPORTED INJURED.


Kansas City, Mo-, Aug. 1.-THE Santa
Fe passenger train from southern Kan
sas, due in Kansas City at $3.50 o'clock
last night, collided with the rear end
of a freight train at Elizabeth, small
station 81 miles east Of Olathe. Kan,
yesterday evening. Five persons were
injured. The passenger train was 40
minutes late and was running to make
up time. The injured were brought to
Kansas City. None was MORALLY hurt.
The fireman and engineer were sent
to st. Joseph's hospital.
The passenger train left Olathe with
no orders. The freight train had been
ordered to 60 on the siding at Elizabeth
to let the belated passenger have
clear track through to Kansas City.
Elisabeth is on low ground and long
grade is to the west. The passenger
train was doing about 80 miles an hour.
The freight had pulled in on the sid
ing, but 1t was too long to get In the
clear. On the rear car Of this train
were three caboose cars and the flying
passenger train struck the foremost OF
these. 1t was thrown to one side and
broken in two and the two remaining
caboose cars were crushed like egg
shells. In the second car was Andy
Byrne, the freight conductor. His es-
cape from death was almost mirac-
ulous.
David Parker and Frank Juleson,
both of Chanute, were the engineer
and fireman on the passenger train.
When their train rounded the curve
Engineer Parker saw the freight cars
on the track short distance ahead.
He reversed his engine and he and the
fireman jumped. They were then but
few feet from the caboose cars ana
when the crash came were struck with
flying timbers. They rolled over and
over as they fell. Engineer Parker's
right arm was crushed and his chest
and shoulder painfully bruised. Fire
man Juleson was injured in the back
and arm. Neither was dangerously
hurt.
After the crash Charles Zorn, the
baggageman, was found lying on the
ground near the wreck. He had re-
ceived q blow on the back. He was
able to 70 to his home at $40 Jeffer-
son street when the train reached
Kansas City.
Andrew Byrne, the freight train con-
ductor, left the train at Argentine and
went to his home He was badly
bruised about the body. Byrne was In
the second caboose. This was being
sent back TO Argentine after the cars
Of his train had been distributed at
various points In Kansas.
Mrs. Sue Goodin, the only passenger
injured, was on the way from her home
at Hazelton, Kan, to Moorehead, Ky.
She was in the second coach from the
rear. When the collision came she was
thrown from her seat against the one
in front and her arm and side were
injured. She was suffering much pain
when she arrived in Kansas City, but
continued on her journey to the south.
I'VE were late" said Engineer Park
or at the hospital last night I'VE
had no orders and was trying to make
up time. Going down that grade
opened the engine and we shot around
the sharp curve into Elizabeth. was
looking out ahead and l saw a nag.
l shut the throttle and right ahead
Of US saw the freight train. II was
too late to stop and I reversed the
lever and we jumped. You see how
landed"