The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-13
THREE KILLED
IN BAD WRECK
Colored Excursion Train Run
into by Fast Mail.
FIFTY PEOPLE WERE HURT
OCCURRED ON MIS-
SOURI, PACIFIC.

II ANSAS CITY, No. July 12.-Mis-
n souri, Pacific fast mail No. z,
which left ST. Louis at 5 o'clock
this morning for Kansas City, crashed
into an excursion train. No 6. south
bound. from Kansas City, that had
become stalled at Dead Mans curve,
between Little Knob and Lee Summit
at 1925 this morning.
Three persons We're killed outright,
two Of them tramps and fifty others
were injured. With the exceptions OF
one or two Of the crew on the fast
mail. all the injured were on the ex-
cursion train. Most CT them were
Kansas City negroes.
Eighteen were seriously hurt The
injuries Of the others consisted OF cuts
and bruises. None Of the passengers
on the fast mail was hurt. The en-
gines. the mail and the baggage cars
on the fast mail went down an en-
bankment, but the rest OF that train
remained upright. as did the excursion
train. Only the engine, one baggage
and a mail car on the fast mail left
the track.
Killed and Injured.
Dead:
Roy Swain, Kansas City, stealing a
ride.
= winkleman. 1912 Russell avenue,
St Louis.
Unknown man.
Seriously hurt: Walter G. Coleman,
baggageman. Kansas City, badly
bruised and cut: Eugene johnson,
Quincy, Ills. bruised and face cut;
Halle Davey, st. Joseph, Mo, head
cut and back sprained; Charles Rey-
nolds. Sedalia, No. badly bruised;
Stella and Sailie Rice. Independence,
Mo-. sisters, heads cut and bruised; Ar
thur Smith, Kansas City, arm and
head cut; Harry Leidy, boy, Kansas
City, leg broken. bruised about head
and body; Walter Brown, boy, Kansas
City. leg broken. head cut; Charles
Walburn, Kansas City. probably in
ternally; George HickOk. Kansas City.
thigh fractured internal injuries;
Charley Pratt Kansas City. internal.
probably fatal; Thomas Cooper. KAN
sas City, shoulder fractured. body bad
" bruised: Benjamin Robinson. Kan
sas City. Kan. hips wrenched, possible
internal injuries; John n Whitney.
Kansas CITY. badly cut and bruised;
James Lightes. Kansas City. leg
crushed, head hurt; Florence Robinson.
Kansas City. Kan. nose broken, other
injuries; A. II. WinslOw. Kansas city,
artery in leg severed; NJ a Jackson.
Kansas City. travelling salesman, Sc
we're confusion on head; Mrs. I. n
Wells. hips hurt
Responsibility For Wreck.
Responsibility for the wreck seems
to rest with the switchman of the fast
mail, who failed to stop promptly when
tagged. The engine on the excursion
train. which consisted of twelve coaches
haa A
man was sent ahead to stop the fast
mail. then about due. The engineer Of
the fast mail failed to see the foremost
dagman and only slackened up when
warned by the second man, who was
within a short distance Of the excursion
train. The fast mail was running at a
high rate of speed and it was unable
to come to a full stop.
When the fast mail struck it was
making fifteen miles an hour. The en-
CINE the baggage car and the foremost
mail car left the track and rolled down
the embankment The impact badly
damaged the engine and baggage car of
the excursion train, but the cars re
manned upright. Most of the injured
were in the baggage car on the excur-
sion train. This car had been turned
into a refreshment car and in that
were about fifty persons, mostly ne
groes, making merry
The crash came without warning and
they were tumbled into a shrieking,
grooming mass, crushed and otherwise
manned. The injured were cared for
quickly and every attention was given.
When the track was cleared the dead
were taken to Lee Summit and the in
iured brought to the Missouri Pacific
hospital at Kansas City. There it is
stated tonight that all are expected to
recover.