The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-05
ROCK ISLAND WRECK.
Two Trains Came Together in
Kansas City Yards.

Kansas City, March 5.-A bad smash
up between two Rock Island trains took
place at 1890 o'clock last night at Rock
Island Junction, just out of the Kansas
City yards. in which sixteen people were
hurt.
INJURED
L. A. Bum. Preston. Idaho, internal
injuries. probably fatal. taken to Uni
versity hospital.
- Cravens. hurt about head, and
left leg badly wrenched.
Horace Wolford, Seattle, head cut and
bruised about body and hips.
G. w White, farmer, Macon, Mo-; on
his way from Oklahoma going home;
badly sprained left arm and left leg;
right knee cap mashed.
W M. Russell, Creston, Ia; right leg
Wrenched and bruises about the body;
was visiting relatives at Hutchinson,
Kas.
Mrs. -- Jackson. Kansas City. hip
strained and internal injuries, taken
away on stretcher
II. E. O'Dell. brakeman, lives 1906
Beliview; bruised left leg and sprained
left arm.
George W. Helchel Ioveland. Col:
going to visit relatives at Russellville,
Ark; left shoulder bruised and sprained
left wrist.
Frank Gaymas, Chicago. III; right leg
injured, sent to University hospital.
Highland avenue; hurt by flying glass;
attended by DR.. ChappeI
George Jacobs. news agent. lives at
Boulder Creek, Cal; sprained left arm
and two inch cash in forehead.
r. L. Campbell. Franklinviile, N. j.;
sprained right ankle.
Frank Purcell, 1922 Cleveland avenue,
Kansas City; bruised hip, lacerated
head and Jaw.
Frank Brown. Lebanon, Kas.; wrench
ed left knee and bruises about legs.
Gus NOrlin, Marquette. kas.; lacer-
ated forehead and sprained right hip
Patrick Bemer, Chicago; foot crushed.
It seems that the Rock Island Texas
train, leaving here at 10 O'Clock. started
out over the Union Pacific tracks, which
it uses out of here on time last night
/ Nos. u and y combined, the Colorado
trains, made into one, were inbound,
but late, and We're trying to take a
siding at this junction, when the Texas
train ran into the smoker of the Colo
rado train, wrecking it. throwing II
from the train and turning it into kind
ling wood. Two other cars Immediately
after it We're deraiIed. but the sleepers
stayed on the track. The Texas train
was running rapidly, and the collision
came with terrific force. The smoker
contained about a dozen persons, about
all of whom were more or less hurt.
+ Some of those in the other two coaches
were also injured.
The first news of the wreck came to
f Kansas City through train newsboy,
+ George Jacobs, of Boulder Greek, Cal.
He was in the smoker OF the Colorado
train at the time and was thrown un-
der the Wreckage. He managed to crawl
out, and obtaining passage on a mail
car on an incoming train. came to the
city and went to the Office of DR.. w. E.
Chappen. on Union avenue. He was
badly bruised and had a cash over his
left cheek, but was not seriously injur-
ed. He could not tell much about the
wreck, and nothing of the other passen-
( gers, though he said none could have
escaped from the smoker without in
jury. Wrecking trains and doctors We're
hurried to the wreck at once sand a
/ long line of ambulances was sent to the
Union depot to care for the injured
when they should arrive
i. A. Bum, of Preston, Id, one Of the
most seriously injured of the passen-
gers on the train, was in the smoker al
the time of the accident. Mr. Bum was
conscious while being taken from the
train to the ambulance at the station
and was able to talk little. He was
bleeding from the nose and ears when
placed on a stretcher and his speech
talking with a friend he said, when
the crash came. There was a moment
when I knew nothing and then I must
have recovered almost instantly for
Something fell across me and seemed to
be crushing the breath out of me. When
help reached me. one of the first things
that was said was don't talk to any
one They said that almost before they
began to help get me out Just at this
juneture one of the Rock Island passen-
ger agents al the station lnterDOsed
himself between the reporter and Mr.
Bum and gruffiy told him to "shut his
mouth and he was hustled into an am
bulance and taken to University hospi-
tai.