Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-29
The wreckage was thrown back. upon US
and caught fire.
CharIpa Harp,an said.

The wreckage was thrown back. upon US
and caught fire.
Charles Herman said:
The accident occurred at 6:S5 p. m. l
know this definitely, because / had just
looked at my watch an instant before.
Three persons wedged in the burning wood
slowly burned to death, while the other
passengers were unable to render them aid.
We then quickly tore the seats from the
cars, piled them up against the wreckage
and strove to rescue all of the living we
could. Several of the escapes were re-
markable. Two men were sitting together
in the same seat. One escaped with only
a slight cut on the ear, the other being
terribly mangled
A husband and wife. also sitting together,
were thrown high in the air and altghted
on top of the car. When we reached them
she was holdink up the man, she being
virtually uninjured. but he was in a very
bad way.
sunset Limited wrecked.
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. ga disastrous
collision occurred on the Southern Pa
cihc at 3 this morning between passenger
train No. 9, westbound, and No. s, east
bound. The wreck occurred near Wallis
burg, Ariz, twelve miles east of this city,
as a result Of which twenty are dead.
From the best information obtainable 1t
appears that both trains were running at
full speed and came together with a
terrific crash. The engines and cars piled
up and Immediately took Gre from the ex-
ploding oil tanks Of the engines. The
flames were communicated to the cars,
eleven of which were quickly consumed.
The first news Of the wreck reached
here when a tourist car, which had been
broken away from the eastbound train, ran
down grade to Tucson, where it was
stopped.
Following is a partial list of the dead:
J. NJ. HILTON, Cambridge, Mass.
]. M. HILTON, Cambridge, Mass.
]. w. BRUCE, engineer.
R. S. WILKEY, engineer.
GEORGE MGRATH, fireman.
Among the injured is L. L. Bradford,
Canyon city. Colo. =,
A number OF others were slightly in
jured by broken glass. Both engineersi
Bruce and Wilkey, and Fireman McGrath
were burned to death in the wrecks of
their engines.
Manager A1ger said:
kilograms we have received say the COL
ltsion was eaused-by negligence of the tele-
miles this side of Walls and fourteen miles
keastSod. Tucson. The westbound train, No.
ealleG the sYaset Limited, was two hours
SEoiS :, A oT Us ~ Il C city f ESpPSss, w fhH5R
left the 9hkLaed Mole at 10 o'clock Mon;
should have eat signals, stopped the West
bound train aHe delivered orders to the en-
gineer which Would have caused him to
take a siding at appoint designated BY the
division train dispatcher.
/ do not behave the wrecked cars were
burned on aco4pt' of the bursting of the oil
reservoirs on the engines. Hardly any OF
the companyA locomotives on, the division
S we're ruf S%rnt SuF2 So ,S5f Ss6 ! 6e9eSe , 16e cars a6s
furnaces or ire boxes OF. the engines.
Accidents in st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2s.--As the result of a
heavy fog that overspread the city for
several hours today there were several
street car collisions. Within seventy min
utes two head-on collisions occurred on the
Clayton division Of the transit c~ompany's
lines. Hs
Seven men were seriously injured in the
two wrecks and a number Of others re-
celved bruises apd scratches,
H. Among those seriously hurt %aA w N,
Riley Of Chicago, who received internal in
%juries, in addition to having his face. hands
and left thigh cut. ,
Missouri RacIAc Denver Express.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 2S.-Missouri
Pacific train No. l, which left here. at Gao
tonight for Colorado, crashed into a
switch engine, head on. in the east bot
toms IN THIS Guy. Inree tralnmen on the
passenger train were seriously hbrt, and
both engines and a dining car were badly
damaged. ~
The injured are: g
James Berhreing, fireman, ;osawatomie
Kan: skull fractured and shoulder LAGER
ated.
C. w. Hutton, dining car conductor
Union City, Ind; right hand lacerated
bruised about body.
- Marshall.
The passengers were shaken up, but
none were hurt. After a delay OF tive
hours, another engines was procured, ant
the train proceededFen MS 1SlFney. 4