The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-12-25
FATAL KANSAS WRECK.
Fast Train Jumps the Track and Min,
Are Killed.

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Kansas City. Dec. 23.-The Meteor. 3.
Francisco railroad, was wrecked at
Godfrey, fifteen miles south of Fort
Scot, Kan, early today. The train
ran into q swithc and all except the
sleeper were 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 maii
car, q smoker, two chair ears 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 preaeded~the
Meteor left the switch open and the
passenger train jumped he track and
rolled down a slight eInbankment.
Cars Were Turned Over.
All ave 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 roadbedI
before they stopped. The sleeper re-
manned upright and one of the pas.
sengers in this car was injured. The;
baggage cars were completely wrecked
and the smoker badly damaged. Five,
of the killed were in the forward end.
OF the smoker, and four of them were;
killed instantly. The news agent was
badly mangled and died on the reliefi
train that carried the dead and injured
to Fort Scott.
Engineer Devices of Fort Scott, Con-
ductor Roy OF Topeka and Fireman.
ishar Of Fort Scott were all instant
ely killed. Express Messenger John,
Bell of Kansas City was seriously in,
jured. Others of the crew and almost!
every ma eco OnT- m tho nr${~a %ro{~ W.
cept those in the sleeper, who escaped.
with a sever shakeup, were injured,
some seriously.
The Dead and Injursd.
The other dead are:
NEWS AGENT JOHN BRUHAKER
of Kansas City.
JAMES H. TwYMAN, colored, Kan
1as.
ASA MoRELAND of Kansas.
JOHN CORBIN AND JOE CORB1N
of Oklahoma.
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
The injured include:
Sheridan Kanable, Oklahoma, fatally
B. F.. Garrowa, Jonesboro, Ark, ia
tally.
Among the seriously injured are: >
J. D. Bryant, Davenport, la.
]. w. GULL. Ottumwa. Ia.
Joseph III. Donohue, Franklin, III.
Express Messenger Bell died later.
making the total number of dead ten. p,
Eighteen persons were seriously in
juredt two fatally and fifteen others
slightly. Most of the injured were bad
ly burned as well 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" n the crew vas ordered to
remain on the track and turn the
switch for the passenger, then about
due The brakeman being ordered to
FL. the Meteor. This he neglected to
do. ~
In the crash the baggage car tele-
scoped the engine, and landed in a.
cornf1eld, while the smoker and two
chair cars We're piled in a mass on
top Of the engine. Most of the injured
were in HI chair cars. which took fire
soon after the wreck occurred.
1t vas still dark when the wreck &C.
CURED, and the utmost confusion fol-
lowed. It was some time before those
of the crew who had escaped injury
were able, with the help of passengers
who were unhurt, to aid the injured.
The wrecking train carrying physicians
did not leave Fort Scott for the scene
until several hours after the wreck oc-
Cured, and it was IL o'clock before the
dead, and injured We're brought to Fort
Scott.
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