The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
SERIOUS WRECK
 ON TH[ FRISCO Nine Persons Killed and Thhty-
 two Are Injured OCCURRED AT GODFREY, KAN, The Meteor" Was Going at Full Speed Trying to Make Up Lost Time
 When It Ran Into an
 Open Switch.
OCCURRED AT GODFREY, KAN,

Kansas City, December 21.-ln today s wreck at Godfrey Kan. of the Meteor" the St. Louis and San Francisco railway fast train from the south. nine persons were killed and thirty-two others injured Of the injured four probably will die. and fourteen were seriously hurt. The dead :;
 James kirkpatrick Mosby, Mo.
 George Hoyt. conductor. Sapulpa, I. T.
 D. E. Dewese, engineer. Fort Scott, Kan.
 Theodore Bishard, fireman. Fort Scott. Kan.
 James H. wymann colored, Flemins' Kan.
 Asa Morand, Lenox, Kan. Leon Corbin, Bessie, Okla.
 Joseph Corbin Bessie. Okla.
 John Bluebacker, news agent Kansas City.
 Fatally Injured.
 John Brubaker, news agent, Kansas Cit
 Sheridan Kanable. Hoopertown, Okla. E. P Carorway. Owensboro, Ark
 John Bell. express messenger, Kansas City.
 H. P. Darlington, mail clerk, Kansas
 
 City.
 Seriously Injured.
 Mrs. E. E. Gala, Hobart Okla; Henry Mckinley, shider, Okla: Thomas Kent. Mountain View, Okla. J. W. Guil Ot- tumwa, la; Henry Mcdonnell. Lodi O.; l.. Howard Lee, Oklahoma City, Okla; Joseph II. Donehue, Franklin, H.; Wal ter Goldsby, Kansas City; John Bell ex- press messenger, Kansas City; J. D. Bryant Davenport, la; w. k. Farmer Blackwell Okla; Elmer Corbin, Bessie, Okla; Jacob Roessler, Harker Okla; (. J. Donovan, Snyder, Okla; J. w. Adam son, mail clerk, Kansas City; Il. B. Dar- lington mail clerk, Kansas City Ftteen others were hurt slightly. Most or tue injured were, ,bsks bofed a. Tsll as Ye- ing maimed.
 J. A. Bartley, the freight brakeman whose failure to flag the passenger train caused the wreck has not been found- The Corbin brothers two of whom were killed, were on their way home to Okla homa to spend Christmas.
 John Bluebacker. the head news agent. was curled up on a seat in the rear or the smoking car near the stove when the crash came He was taken out alive, but died during the afternoon. Bluebacker was 23 years old.
 Trying to Make Up Time.
 When the train reached Godfrey if was behind and running at full speed to make up time. The crew of freight train that had preceded the Meteor left the switch open and the passenger train jumped the track and rolled down slight embankment. All save the sleep CT turned over and so fast was the train running that the engine and forward baggage car went nearly sixty feet off the roadbed before 1t stopped The sleeper remained upright and none of the passengers in this car were injured.
 The baggage cars were completely wrecked and the smoker was badly dam aged Five of those killed were In the forward end of the smoker The news agent, who was badly mangled, died on the relief train that carried the dead and injured to Fort Scott.
 Engineer B. A Dewees of Fort Scott, Conductor Roy of Topeka, Fireman Bishard of Fort Scott were all instantly killed and Express Messenger John Bell of Kansas City was seriously injured, dying later. Others of the crew and al- most every passenger on the entire train except those in the sleeper, who es- caped with a severe shake-up, were in- jured some seriously.
 It was still dark when the wreck oc- curred and the utmost confusion follow ed. It was some time before the crew who had escaped injury were able with the help of the passengers who were un- hurt to aid the injured. A wrecking crew carrying physicians did not leave Fort Scott for the scene until several hours after the wreck occurred, and it was ii o'clock before the dead and in- iured were brought to Fort Scott.