The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-07-26

| slightly mass and the baggage car was
| turned into the ditch and broken to
pieces. The smoker, where the injured
were, was piled up so that many Of the
| injured had to be pulled from under the
| seats.
| From the testimony of witnesses to
! the accident the Santa Fe train crew
receives most of the blame. Nearly every
one Of the Missouri Pacific passengers
who came 10 this city stated that the
Missouri Pacific train stopped and whis-
tied for the crossing. Several saw the
Santa Fe train approaching and say that
it did not stop.
Steve Hayden conductor Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific train stated last night that
! the Santa Fe train struck the other
| while drifting. The engine of the Santa
Fe train was not using any steam when
! the wreck occurred. This statement is
| borne out by the fact that the Santa
Fe engine with eight heavy cars hack
| of it did not GO ten feet after striking
the other train The Santa Fe engineer
! claims that the air failed to work pro-
! perly and he could not stop. The train
was not going more than six miles an
hour when IL hit the Missouri Pacific
smoker, the big engine and the heavy
| cars pushing through by their own mo-
mentum.
NJ. Hayden stated TO the Easle last
night that the Santa Fe engineer M.
! Forester stated that he did not see tne
Missouri Pacific train until just before
/ IL struck
The Santa Fe officials at Topeka last
night denied that their train men were
| to blame for the accident claiming that
the train stopped as usual
! As a result of the wreck two men, Mr..
| Lonnecker ad Mr. Corrington, are not ex-
| pected to live, and twenty other persons
were more or less seriously injured z.
. T. Lonnecker, who is a hardware dealer
! from Bartlett. Kan. and who was re-
/ turning home from Colorado, where he
/ had been for his health, is crushed inter
I nally is in terrible pain ard cannot pos
! sibly live. G.. 3. Corrington, who is a
! Springfield, Mo, man, was crushed in the
! right side and his right arm was so
badly mangled that it was amputated be-
fore noon yesterday. He may recover
with the loss of the arm. although there
! is but little hopes for him. Both of these
men, with the others seriously injured,
are in the Welsh hospital, at Hutchinson.
The others injured, all of whom will re-
cover, are:
J. Y. Niles, of Hutchinson, left shoul-
der sprained.
]. 3. Stratton, who travels for the Peru
Van Zandt Implement company, was
] TI,a ID Sed oil over
the body.
NJ. r. Cain, of Hutchinson, who travels
for the Standard OIL company, was in
jured in the right shoulder and arm and
his left leg bruised.
J. p. Norton, who travels for the Niles
& Moser Cigar company, of SOC Delaware
street, Kansas City, was bruised on his
left arm and his head cut.
Colas Jewell, of Golden City, Mo, had
his right leg sprained.
Pat Murphy was injured in the left
leg, below the knee.
J. NJ Raines, of Independence, Kan.
has bad cut in the head. in the temple,
and his arm and shoulder and leg were
badly strained
r. F. Stidworth was cut in the hand.
R. H. iPerson, of 226 First avenue. west,
Hutchinson. had several fingers smashed,
his left ankle strained and was otherwise
bruised about the body He was standing
on the platform between the two cars
which were in the force of the wreck
and was knocked 10 the ground.
A J. Nelson, of 2OS Seventh avenue,
west, Hutchinson, had his right arm and
hip and shoulder badly mashed.
J. D. Fitzgerald. of Denver, had his
finger mashed and his knee cap dislo-
Gated.
II. NJ. Frease. of Caney. Kan, had his
head and knee and leg bruised.
L. T Mesler Carroll, Ia, thrown
through window and left hip sprained.
Claude Harris, Salina, hip bruised and
hand hurt.
Frank Davis, Winfield, left arm bruised
and cut back sprained.
The wrecking train left Wichita soon
after the news Of the accident was
brought to this city. Doctors Basham.
Mccoy and a trained nurse accompanied
the train from here. When the wrecking
train arrived all of the injured had been
taken from under the debris and were
being cared for by the passengers of the
two trains as well as they were able. \
car brought the injured to Hutchinson
and the doctors of that city aided by the
out of town doctors cared for the injured.
The tracks of the two railroads We're
not injured to any extent and the Santa
Fe had cleared up their portion of the
wreck and had No. going east in an
! hours time.
The Missouri Pacific track was in
bit the worst shape and their tracks
were not cleared at a late hour this
afternoon. This road made up train
/ here however. and the passengers were
! brought to this city early in the after
/ noon.
CONCERT BY TWO BANDS.