The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-21
TRAIN WRECKED
NEAR Fl. SCOTT.
Ten Persons Killed and Twenty
Injured, at Least Switch
Was Open.
Train Running at Full Speed
Jumped Over Sixty Feet
From Track.
Wrecking Grew Was Delayed
Several Hours and the Utmost
Confusion Prevailed.

Kansas City, Mo-, Dec. 21.-The
Meteor, the fast train on the st. Louis
& San Francisco railway, which left
Fort Worth yesterday afternoon for
Kansas City, was wrecked at GOD
frey, fifteen miles south of Fort Scott,
Kan, this morning. The tram ran
into a switch, and all except the
sleeper was derailed and turned over
Ten persons We're killed and over
twenty injured. The dead and injured
were taken to Fort Scott. ana arrived
in that city at II o'clock.
The dead
GEORGE HOYT, conductor, sapul-
pa, I. T.
B. A. DEVICES, engineer, Fort Scott.
THEORDORE BISHARD, fireman,
JAMES II. TwYMAN, (colored)
Fleming, Kan.
ASA MORELAND, Lenexa, Kan.
LON CORBIN, Bessie, Okla. -.
JOE CORBIN, Bessie, Okla.
JOHN BRUBAKER, news agent,
Kansas City.
JOHN BELL, express messenger,
ONE UNINDENTIFIEDM MAN, body
was thrown sixty feet into a cornfield.
Fatally injured:
Sheridan Kenable, Hoopertown
Okla.
L
Seriously injured
Mrs. e. E. Call Hobart, Okla.
Henry Mckinley Slider, Okla.
Thomas Kent, Mountain, Okla.
J. w. GULL, Ottumwa, Iowa. ..
Henry M. Mcdonnell, Lodi, Ohio.
L. Howard Lee, Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Joseph H. Donohue, Franklin, Ill.
Walter Godsby, Kansas City.
j. D. Bryant Davenport, Iowa.
w. r. Farmer, Blackwell, Okla.
Elmer COrbin, Bessie, Okla.
Jacob Roesseler, Parker, Okla.
G. J. Donovan, Snyder, Okla.
J. W. Adamson, mail clerk Kansas
City.
Fifteen others were hurt slightly.
Most of the injured were badly burned
as we'll as being MANNED.
The responsibility for the wreck is
laid at the door of a brakeman of the
freight crew. who failed to flag the
passenger train. He has disappeared.
Brakeman's Neglect.
The engine on the freight had be-
come dead and the crew was or
dered to remain on the main track
and turn the switch for the passenger,
then about due, the brakeman being
ordered to flag the Meteor. This he
neglected to do. In the crash the bag
gage car telescOped the engine and
landed in a corn field, while the
smoker and the two chair cars were
piled in mass on top Of the engine.
Most Of the injured were in the chair
cars, which took fire soon after the
wreck occurred.
When the. train reached Godfrey it
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 jumped the track and
rolled down 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 road
bed before it stopped. The sleeper
remained upright 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 instant
1y. A news agent, who was badly
mangled. died on the relief train that
carried the dead and injured to Fort
Scott. - e..
Dead and Injured.
Engineer B. A. Devices Of Fort
Scott, Conductor Roy of Topeka, and
Fireman Bishard of Fort Scott were
all instantly killed, and Express Mes
senger John Bell Of Kansas City was
seriously injured. Others of the crew
and almost every passenger on the
train, except those in the sleeper, who
escaped with a severe shakeup, were
injured, some Of them seriously.
1t was still dark when the wreck
occurred, and the utmost confusion
followed. It. was some time before
those Of the crew who had escaped
injury were able, with the help of the
passengers who were unhurt, to aid
the injured. A wrecking crew, car
rying physicians, could not leave Fort
Scott for the scene Of the accident
until several hours after the wreck
occurred, and it was II o'clock be-
fore the dead and injured were
brought to Fort Scott