The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-12-25
NINE LIVES LOST
TWENTY INJURED
Wreck Of the St. Louis q San Fran.
eisco'S North Bound Meteor.
The bead Include Essin~~r. Fire
man. Conductor and Express
Wcss~nger-Thc sleeper
s'assengrrs E:scap~d.

Kansas City Mo. Dec. 22.-In Mon
days wreck at Godfrey. Kas.. o
Meteor the st. Louis a San Fran
ciscos fast tram from the south. min,
persons were killed and thirty-two 9th
ers injured or the injured four prob
ably viii die. and IL were seriously
hurt The train ran .nto a switch and
all cars except the sleeper were de-
rated and turned over.
The wrecked train was one OF the
! firrst and fastest in the service. II
We made up of two baggage and one
r.r Il car. smoker. two chair cars and
! hooper
When the train reached Godfrey il
was behind and running at full speed
tn make up time.
The crew of freight train that
he'd preceded the Meteor left the
switch open. and the passenger train
jumped the track and rolled down a
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 of the roadbed before IL
ctVPhtN. ut ctstHtI ISiuointu UP
right 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 we're
in the forward end Of the smoker. and
four OF them were killed instantly.
A news agent. who was badly man.
gled. died on the relief train thar car
ried the dead and injured to Fort
Scott
Engineer Devices. of Fort Scott.
Conductor Roy. Of Topeka. and Fire
man Bishard. of Fort Scott. were all
instantly killed. and Express Messen-
ger John Bell of Kansas City. was Sc
riously injured.
Others OF the crew and almost every
passenger on the entire train. except
those in the sleeper. who escaped with
q severe shakeup. were injured. some
of them seriously.
The Dend.
James Kirkpatrick. Mosby. Mo
b. a. Devices. engineer. Fort Scott.
Kas.
George Hoyt. conductor. Sapulpa.
l. T.
John B.uebacker. news agent. Kan
sas City.
James H. Twyman tcolored). Elem
ing. Kas.
Asa Moreland. Lenexa. Kas.
Lon Corbin. Bessie. Okla
Joseph Corbin. Bessie. Okla
Those Fatally Injured.
Sheridan Kenablc. Hooperstown.
Okla.
B. r. Garroway. Jonesboro. Ark.
John Bell. express messenger. Kan
sas City
sas City
The Seriously Injured
Mrs. +. c. Call. Hobart. Okla
Henry Mckinley. Snider. Okla
Thos. Kent. Mountain View. Okla.
j w. GULL. Ottumwa. la
Henry VI. Mcdonnell Lodi. o.
l. Howard Lee. Oklahoma City,
Okla.
Joseph Fl. Donohue. Franklin. III.
Walter Cosby. Kansas City
J. ID. Bryan. Davenport la
w. II. Farmer. Blackwell. Okla.
Elmer Corbin. Bessie Okla .
Jacob RoesRller. Parker. Okla.
c. j. Donovan Snider. Okla
J. w. Adamson. mail clerk. Kansas ,
lily.
Twelve slightly Hart. y
Twelve others were hurt slightly I
lost Of the injured were badly burned s
s well as being manned 4
In the crash the baggage car tele :
COPIED the engine and landed in a corn .
ED. while the smoker and the two
hair cars were piled in a mass on
Up Of the engine. Most OF the injured
Tere in the chair cars, which took fire I
Don after the accident
J A. BARLEY. the freight brakeman.
hose failure to flag the passenger
-ain caused the wreck. has not been
'und- The Corbin brothers. two Of a
HON were killed and one seriously |,
H.