The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-11-06
Two Cable Trains in Collision On
the Twelfth Street Incline
at Kansas City.
ONE CHAPMAN LOST HIS GRIP
and TRAIN GOT AWAY From Hin.
One Person Killed and Two Score IN
surad. some Seriously, In the
Crash When 1t Met AN
Train Obscured BY the PreVaiiihs
Fog.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 5.-One per-
son was killed and 10 others injured,
four perhaps fatally, in COLLISION u
two cable trains in a fog on tne
Twelfth street incline, near the Union
depot, Notwithstanding
Most of the injured were "orhihe
girls. clerks in the big retail stores up
| town who were on their way to WORK
from their homes in Argentine, AT
mourdale and Kansas City, kas. across
the liver from Kansas City, Mo. Inc
accident was due to slippery tracks.
One train. heavily laden with passen-
gers. had reached Summit street, lour
blocks east of the top of the Twellth
street viaduct, structure four piochS
! in length that spans the railway trach'
in the Union depot yards.
Thirty Degree Descent.
/ For the entire distance of eight
blocks there is a sheer descent ol
about 80 degrees. At Summit street
the first car had stopped to let OH
messenger. when the gripman lost MS
grin on the cable. Immediately the
train started back, gaining great speeu'
heavy fog made it impossible TO see
a block ahead, and indescribale conia-
sion ensued among the passengers, doz-
ers of whom were too closely packed
inside the closed car to make move
to save themselves. Several on the
grip car and many among those on tne
platform of the rear car jumped, ana
escaped with but Slight injuries. When
the train had reached the top OF tne
viaduct it was going at q rate OF per
baps thirty miles an hour. Two BLOCKS
awax midway down the incline, an
other heayily-laden train was making
its way upward.
Obscured by Dense Fog.
The fog was too dense for either ere"
10 see the orner, and not until the run
away train was within a few feet o.
tho second train did those on the latter
realize any danger. The cars came to-
gether with terrific force, throwing the
passengers in every direction, locklhs
the cars together in deadly embrace
and partially wrecking the viaduct
The scenes that followed were agonlz
ing. Bewildered, crushed and unable U
see clearly In the dense fog, which
this low lying point was thicker tnal
above, itwas some moments peiore tn
situation could be realized, and an eE
, fort could be made by the passenger
IN extricate themselves or others to re
move them from their pernous posi-
ton Several Of the injured had bee
, thrown clear off the viaduct railing
and failing 20 feet to the railway yard
below sustained injuries mere or les
serious.
The I<ined and Injured.
Amhulances we're sent from all part
of the city. and when finally order wa
restored and the injured removed,
-,os fovrd that one Miss Emma Ho
NOR clerk from Kansas City, Kas
had teen killed, ond 10 others NOR
O, less seriously hurt, four perhap
, fatally.
The injured:
Minnie Soeder.
Annie 7 ew.
Mary TcnOvan.
/ Lizzie Canary.
T Narraret Firnigan.
Harmon Watkins.
Esther Lotus.
Corrie Mooney.
DlaDche Barker.
j. Josephine Chalk.
: Emma Oyer.
9 Gertrude Drinel.
Eta Hanson.
/ Mrs. f. F.. Goods'l
Beniamin Mtchur'
w. L. Lawson, gr!pn'n OF runawa
Z train; hurt internally; serions.
9 Charley Slack, conductor of runaws
train; hurt in head; serious.
d w. X. Runnell. gripman OF secor
train. hurt in chest and shoulde
h hand cut; serious
a ]. A. Lynch, of Wichita, kas,; ft
n from viaduct, alighting on his hea'
II serious.
l. The conductor of the second ira
d escaped injury.
70 Harmon watkins. who Is an emplo
i of the Methodist Book Concern. W
+ probably fatally hurt. His jaw W
N broken. ard he was otherwise h.rt
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