Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-04-24
MORE RAILROAD WRECKS
Passenger Train Ditched Near Ever
= : ton, Mo-, and Trains Collide
-. :, Near Spsulding, /. 7.
gora DISASTERS ON FRISCO SYSTEM.
Defective Rail Ca Us esiFirst Named Ac-
cfdent-Three Persons Killed and
. Many Injured, Two seriously-Four
TEatnmen Hurt In Second Disaster
E-Seven Perished an Erie Wreck.

Kansas City, Mo, April e2.-Passen-
ger train N6..1O3 on the Frisco system,
which left Kansas City at II: so Monday
hight fof Memphis and Birmingham,
was partially wrecked near Everton,
Mo-, north of Springfield, by defec-
tive rail, at seven o'clock Tuesday
morning. The engine. baggage and
mail cars went into the ditch and were
badly damaged. The engineer, fire.
man and one postal clerk were killed, a
mail clerk and one passenger were
seriously hurt, and perhaps a dozen
passengers were slightly injured.
The dead:
E. Il. Mead, engineer, Fort Scott.
Kan.
Bert Coffman, fireman, Fort Scott.
C. B. Campbell, postal clerk, Kansas
City.
Seriously injured:
Clyde Wilkins, postal clerk, Fort
Scott.
Louie Columbia, Kansas City, pas
senger.
Later Clyde Wilkins died of his in.
juries.
The engineer, fireman and mai
clerks were buried in the wreckage
Fireman Coffman and Postal Clerk
Campbell were dead when taken out
Engineer Mead was in dying condi-
ton and succumbed soon after being
removed from the wreck. The passen-
ger coaches remained upright and the
passengers, except Columbia, escaped
with a severe shake up and slight
bruises.
The accident is believed to be the
work of train wreckers. several at
tempts having been made within the
past four months to wreck Frisco
trains in this vicinity.
Passenger and Freight Collide.
st. Louis, April ga special to the
Republic from Denison, Tex, says
-Four trainmen were injured in head
end collision on the Frisco road neal
Spaulding, I. T., early Tuesday.
The injured:
William Hughes, passenger engineer
seriously.
w. T. Armstrong, passenger brake.
man.
Edward Hill, freight conductor.
Fuller Hopkins, freight conductor,
seriously.
The collision occurred between q
south-bound passenger and north.
bound freight train. The passenger
train was disabled for service, the en-.
tine being wrecked, and the coache.
badly damaged. The freight train
was derailed. None of the passengers
was hurt.
Seven Perished In Erie Wreck.
Salamanca, N. Y, April eat is now
known with practical certainty that
seven persons persisted in the wreck
on the Erie railroad at Red House Mon.
day. The railroad officials have com.
piled list of the names of the passen.
gers who escaped uniniured, the names
of the injured and the name of one
dead man, and by comparing this with
the record of the conductor as to the
total number of passengers on board
the train they find that six are missing
or unaccounted for. They believe that
the bodies Of all those killed have been
found and that the list of fatalities
will not exceed seven. The six un
identified bodies are so badly charre6
that recognition is impossible and
they bore nothing which would give
any clew to their identity. Agent
Hicks, Of the Erie railroad at this place
has received many kilograms contain,
Ing inquiries as to passengers on the
train, but thus far all the names men.
toned have been in either the list O,
the injured or uninjured.
Relatives of r. L. McCready, Of
Meadville, the missing mail weigher,
have claimed one of the bodies t the
morgue here, believing it to be his.