Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-12-24
FATAL KANSAS WRECK.
Fast Train Jumps the Track and Min.
Are Killed.

Fast Train Jumps the Track and Nine
Are Killed.
Kansas City, Dec 23.--The Meteor, a
fast train on the st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, was wrecked at
Godfrey. fifteen miles south of Fort
Scott, Kan, early today. The train
sleeper We're derailed and turned over.
Nine persons We're killed and over
twenty injured. The dead and injured
We're taken to Fort Scott.
The wrecked train was one of the
finest and fastest in the service and
consisted of two baggage cars, one mail
car a smoker, two chair cars and a
sleeper. When the train reached God
frey it was behind and was running at
full speed TO make up time. The crew
of a freight train that had preceded the
Meteor left the switch open and the
passenger train jumped the track and
rolled down a slight embankment.
Cars Were Turned Over.
All save the sleeper turned over, and
so fast was the train running that the
engine and forward baggage car land
ed nearly sixty feet off the roadbed
before they stopped. The sleeper re-
manned upright and none of the pas
sengers i'm this car was injured. The
baggage cars We're completely wrecked
and the smoker badly damaged. Five
of the killed We're in the forward end
of the smoker, and four of them We're
killed instantly. The news agent was
badly mangled and died on the relief
train that carried the dead and injured
to Fort Scott.
Engineer Devices of Fort Scott, Con-
ductor Roy of Topeka and Fireman
3ishard of Fort Scott We're all Instant
ly killed. Express Messenger John
Bell of Kansas City was seriously i'm
jured. Others of the crew and almost
every passenger on the entire train, eN-
cept those in the sleeper, who escaped
some seriously.
The Dead and Injured.
The other dead are:
NEWS AGENT JOHN BRUHAkER
of Kansas City.
JAMES H. TwYMAN, colored, Kan
sas.
ASA MoRELAND of Kansas.
JOHN CORI3IN AND JOE CORBIi{
of Oklahoma.
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
The injured include:
Sheridan 1Ianable Oklahoma. fatally.
b. f. Garrowa, Jonesboro. Ark, fa-
tally.
Among the seriously injured are:
j. ID. Bryant Davenport, la.
j. w. GULL, Ottumwa, la.
Joseph III. Donohue, Franklin. Ill.,
Express Messenger BELL died later,
making the total number of dead ten.
Eighteen persons We're seriously in
jured. two fatally and fifteen others
slightly Most of the injured were bad
ly burned as we'll as MANNED.
Responsibility for the wreck is laid
at the door of the brakeman of the
freight. who failed to flag the passen-
ger train. He has disappeared. The
engine ON the freight had become
dead" and the crew was ordered to
remain on the track and turn the
switch for the passenger, then about
cue The brakeman being ordered to
flag the Meteor. This he neglected to
dc.
In the crash the baggage car tele-
scoped the engine, and landed in a
cornfield While the smoker and two
chair cars We're piled in mass on
top of the engine. Most of the injured
We're in the chair cars, which took fire
soon after the wreck occurred.
1t was still dark when the wreck oc-
Cured, and the utmost confusion fol-
lowed. 1t was some time before those
of the crew who had escaped injury
We're able, with the help of passengers
who We're unhurt to aid the injured.
The wrecking train carrying physicians
did not leave Fort Scott for the scene
until several hours after the wreck &C.
CURED, and it was IL o'clock before the
dead and injured were brought TO Fort
Scott.