The Forrest City times., 1903-12-25
NINE LIVES LOST
 TWENTY INJURED
Wreck of the St. Louis & San Fran
 cisco's North Bound Meteor.
DeRAIleD BY AN OPEN SWITCH
The Dead Include Engineer. Fire man. Conductor nn1 Express Messen9er-Thc Sleeper
 Passengers Escaped.

Kansas City. Mo, Dee. 22.-In Mon days wreck at Godfrey. Kas., of Meteor" the St. Louis X San Fran cfsco's fast tram from the south. nine persons were killed and thirty-two oth- CTS injured. Of the injured four prob ably will die. and II were seriously hurt The train ran into a switch and all cars except the sleeper were de- railed and turned over
 The wrecked train was one of the finest and fastest in the service It was made up of two baggage and one mail car, a smoker, two chair cars and sleeper.
 When the train reached Godfrey 1t was behind and 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 slight embankment. All save the sleeper turned over. and so fast was the train running that the engine and the forward baggage car landed nearly sixty feet off the roadbed before 1t stopped. The sleeper remained up right and none of the passengers in this car was injured.
 The baggage cars were completely wrecked, and the smoker was badly damaged. Five of those killed were in the forward end of the smoker, and four of them were killed instantly.
 news agent, who was badly man. gled. died on the relief train that car ried the dead and injured to Fort Scott.
 Engineer Dewees, of Fort Scott. Conductor Roy, of Topeka. and Fire man Bishard, of Fort Scott were all instantly killed, and Express Messen- ger John Bell, of Kansas City. was se- riously injured.
 Others of the crew and almost every passenger on the entire train, except those in the sleeper, who escaped with a severe shake-up, were injured, some of them seriously.
 The Dead.
 James Kirkpatrick, Mosby Mo.
 B. A. Dewees, engineer, Fort Scott, Kas.
 George Hoyt, conductor, Sapulpa. l. T.
 John Bluebacker, news agent, Kan. sas City
 James H. Twyman (colored), Elem ing, Kas.
 Asa Moreland, Lenexa. Kas.
 Lon Corbin, Bessie. Okla.
 Joseph Corbin, Bessie. Okla.
 Those Fatally Injured.
 Sheridan Kenable, Hooperstown, Okla.
 B. F Garroway. Jonesboro, Ark.
 John Bell, express messenger, Kan sas City.
 II. B. Darlington, mail clerk. Kan. sas City
 The Seriously Injured.
 Mrs. E. c. Call. Hobart. Okla
 Henry Mckinley, Snider. Okla.
 Thos Kent. Mountain View, Okla. J. w. Quill. Ottumwa. Ia.
 Henry NJ. Mcdonnell Lodi o.
 L. Howard Lee, Oklahoma City, Okla.
 Joseph H Donohue. Franklin, III. Walter Cosby. Kansas City.
 J. D. Bryan. Davenport, Ia.
 w. H. Farmer. Blackwell Okla
 Elmer Corbin, Bessie, Okla.
 Jacob Roesseller. Parker. Okla.
 c. J. Donovan, Snider, Okla.
 J. w. Adamson, mail clerk. Kansas City.
 Twelve Slightly Hurt.
 Twelve others were hurt slightly. Most of the injured were badly burned as we'll as being maimed
 In the crash the baggage car tele- scoped the engine and landed in corn field, while the smoker and the two chair cars were piled in a mass on top of the engine Most of the injured were in the chair cars, which took fire soon after the accident.
 J. A. Bartley. the freight brakeman, whose failure to flag the passenger train caused the wreck. has not been found The Corbin brothers, two of