The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-05
SIX ARE DEAD.
Result Of Santa Fe Wreck at
StiIIweII, Kansas.
Passenger Trains We're on Mis-
souri, Pacific Tracks.
RAN PAST THE STATION
Pilots on the Trains Didn't Stop
at Meeting Place.
Injured and Dead Taken to
Kansas City.
RAN PAST THE STATION

At1:45 Thursday afternoon westbound
train No. / on the Santa Fe collided
with eastbound train No. 8. a quarter of
a mile cost of Stillwell, Kansas. killing
four passengers and two tramps who
We're riding on the front end of the bag
gage car and injuring many others.
Since the Santa Fe has been having
trouble with washouts on their own
track that road has been detouring its
trains over the Missouri Pacific track
from Ottawa to Kansas City. Most Of
these trains come through by way of
Topeka under normal conditions but
since the flood has prevented the Santa
Fe from using its own track they have
been detoured over other lines.
The cause of the wreck as given
out BY the officials at the Santa Fe
general offices was as follows: Each
train was in charge of a pilot furnished
by the Missouri Pacific. which is usu-
ally the case when a road is detouring
it's trains over another road. These
pilots on account Of being we'll ac-
quainted with the road. are supposed
to be better able to handle the train
than the regular engineer. It is under~
stood here that the pilots on both
Santa Fe trains had received orders to
meet a It StiIweI, but for some unknown
reason the pilot on the east-bound train
ran past the stopping point and the
head-on collision was the result.
The dead and injured We're taken on
into Kansas City.
The following is the correct list of the
killed and injured:
UNKNOWN TRAMP.
FRANK HOOVER, SteubensviIle. O.
E. H. WARD, Newcastle. Pa
CARLOS NJ. FAZARDO, Lawrence.
UNKNOWN NAN
VIM NEWMILLER, Coplandheld.
n. J.
Arthur L. shunade. head and back
Rev John Green. Indianapolis. Ind.
leg broke.
owen Patcher. ottawa. Kan. jaw
VIM. Woods. Mt Forrest. ont. leg
broken.
Thomas Mcdonald. Temple.Tex.. arm
fractured.
Miss Nellie Shoemaker, Kansas City,
No, wrist sprained.
Curtis tlrich, Globe Mills, Pa, arm
and foot sprained.
Chas. NJ Shaw, Leadville, Colo, thigh
bruised.
Andrew Dunlap. engineer on the east
bound Santa F'e train, who lives at ABS
Clay street, arrived at II O. clock today.
He was slightly bruised but is able to
walk He refused to say anything
about the accident or its cause
KANSAS I'll E4fAlolO1N
Kansas City Mo, June 5.-Following
is a revised list of the persons killed in
the Santa Fe trEcn wreck at StillwelI.
Kan:
LINK DAY, Los Angeles. Cal. about
"A years old.
WILLIAM NEWMILLER. PIainheld,
N J.. about so years old
DAN MONAHAN, Prescott, Arizona,
about 80 years old.
E. H WARD, New Castle, Pa, about
&. a. KNIskERN, MQnett, Mo, q
CARLOS NJ. FAzARDO. Porto Rico.
/ 21 years old, student at Kansas univer-
sity, Lawrence
FRANK JOHNSON, conductor Pull
man car, about 35 years old
UNKNOWN MAN, about % years old,
roughly dressed apparently a laborer:
/ UNKNOWN MAN, about 25 years old,
| light mustache and dark brown hair,
hazel eyes.
The most seriously injured are:
Baggageman Owen Patchen, Ottawa,
kan will probably die
A. L. Sellers, North Manchester, Ind,
"A years old; condition serious
John Green, Indianapolis; letS leg
Thomas McDonald. 26. Temple, Texas
right arm broken, three fingers cut off,
/ gashes on head and body.
William Woods, SO, Mount Forest onF-'
leg badly crushed and internal injuries;
serious.
William Groves. Bentonville, O., ankle
sprained and back wrenched.
The dead are at undertakers shops
here and the wounded in the Missouri
4 Pacific hospital.
The trains that collided were the third
section of No. 8. northbound to ChicaSo
and No / southbound for California. At
Q O'Clock today DR. Hamel chief sur
geon Of the Missouri Pacific hospital
said that all the injured were doing
nicely and the indications were tha- 5H
would recover.
through ticket to New York also direc-
tions as to notification Of his relatives
in case of accident.
The unidentified laborer was i've feet
three inches tall and had dark brown
hair and a light rnustache. He HAD no
papers that would Identify him.