Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-07-13
CRASHED into
EXCURSION TRAIN
Three People Killed Outright, Fifty
Wounded,
MOST Of THEM NEGROES
Responsibility for Disaster Appears
To Hest with Crew Of the
Fast Wall.

Kansas City, Mo-, July l2.-Mlssour
Pacific fast mail No e. which left ST.
Louis at o'clock this morning for
Kansas City, crashed into an excursion
train, No. G, southbound from Kansas
city, that had become stalled at Dead
Mans Curve" between Little Knoch
and Lee Summit, at 1925 this morning
Three persons were killed outright,
two Of them tramps, and 80 others
We're injured. With the exception Of
one or Two OF the crew on the fast
mail, all the injured We're on the eX-
cursion train. Most Of 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 man
was hurt
The engine, the mail and the baggage
cars on the fast mail went down an
embankment but the rest OF that tram
remained upright. as did the excursion
train.
DEAD,
Roy Swain. Kansas ely; stealing
ride.
- wInkleman, 1912 Russell avenue,
ST, Louis.
Unknown man.
SERIOUSLY HURT.
Walter G.. Coleman. baggageman,
Kansas City; badly bruised and cut,
Eugene Johnson. Quincy, ILL.,; bruised
and face cut
Halle Dayey. St. Joseph, Mo-; head
cut and back spralned.
Charles Reynolds. Sedalia. Mo-; bad
" bruised.
Stella and Salle Rice, Independence,
MO, sisters: heads cut and bruised,
Arthur Smith, Kansas city; arm and
head cut.
Harry Lady, boy, Kansas city; leg
broken and bruised about head and
body.
Walter Brown, boy, Kansas CITY, leg
BROKEN and head Tut
Chas. Walburn, Kansas city; prob
ably internally.
George Hickok, Kansas city; thigh
fractured and internal injuries
Charley Pratt, Kansas city Internal.
probably fatal
Thomas Coope. Kansas City; Shout
der fractured and body badly bruised
Benjamin Robinson, Kansas City,
Kas.; hips wrenched and possible in
ternal injuries
John n. Whitney, Kansas City; badly
cut and buised.
James Lightes, Kansas City; leg
crushed and head hurt.
Florence Robinson, Kansas City,
Has; nose broken and other injuries,
a. H. Winslow, Kansas City artery
in leg severed
M. A. jackson. Kansas City travelling
salesman; severe confusion on head,
Mrs. l. n. Wells; hip hurt.
Responsibility for the wreck seems
10 rest with the crew of the fast mail,
who failed TO stop promptly when
tagged. The engine on the excursion
train, which consisted of ~
coaches heavily loaded. broke down.
iiagman was sent ahead TO stop the
fast mail. then about due. The engi-
neer OF the fast mail failed TO see the
foremost fagman and only Stacked up
when warned by the second man, who
was within a short distance of the eX-
cuTsion train. The fast mail was run
ming at high rate Of speed, and II was
unable to come to full stop.
When the fast mail struck II was
uIldhluk 10 HllltS an HuuI INC
engine, the baggage car and the fore
most mail car left the track and rolled
down the embankment. The compact
damaged the engine and baggage ear
OF the excursion train, but the cars re-
manned upright.
Most Of the injured were in the bag
gage car on the excursion train, This
car had been turned into u refresh
mani ap1 Iva fhat tNgYa ahoug N
persons mostly negroes, making
merry. The crash came without warn
ing and they We're tumbled into a
shrleking, groaning mass, crushed and
otherwise manned. The injured We're
cared for quickly and every attention
was given. When the track was
cleared the dead were taken to Lee
Summit and the injured brought to tile
Missouri Pacific hospital at Kansas
City. There ii is stated tonight that ell
are expected to recover