The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-12-24
FATAL KANSAS WRECK.
Fast Train Jumps the Track and Nine
Are Killed.

Are kllied.
Kansas City, Dec. 2s.-The Meteor, al
fast train on the st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, was wrecked at
Godfrey, fifteen miles south Of Fort
Scott, Kan, early today. The train
ran into a swithc and all except the
sleeper We're derailed and turned over.
Nine persons We're killed and over
twenty injured. The dead and injured
We're taken to Fort Scott.
The wrecked train was one of the
finest and fastest in the service and
consisted of two baggage cars, one mail
car, a smoker, two chair cars and a.
sleeper. When the train reached Cod
frey it was behind and was running at
full speed to max 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 a slight embankment.
Cars Were Turned Over.
All save the sleeper turned over, and
70 fast was the train running that the
engine and forward baggage car land-I
ed nearly sixty feet off the roadbed
before they stopped. The sleeper rel
NAMED upright and none of the pas
sengers in this a vas injured. The
baggage cars were completely Wreckedt
and the smoker badly damaged. Five
of the killed were in the forward end
of the smoker, and four of them WereI
killed instantly. The news agent wasl
badly mangled n died on the relief
train that carried the dead and injured
to Fort Scott.
Engineer Devices OF Fort Scott, Conf
ductor Roy Of Topeka and Fireman
Bishard of Fort Scott We're all Instant,
ly killed. Express Messenger john
Bell of Kansas City was seriously in-f
jured. Others of the crew and almost
every passenger on the entire train, eX-s
cept those in the sleeper, who escaped
with a severe shakeup, were Injured
some seriously.
The Dead and Injured.
The other dead are:
NEWS AGENT JOHN BRUHAKEh
of Kansas City.
JAMES H. TWYMAN, colored, Kan
sas.
ASA MoRELAND Of Kansas.
JOHN CORBIN AND JOE CORBIN
IF Oklahoma.
AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN.
The injured include:
Sheridan Kanable, Oklahoma, fatally
B. f. Garrowa, Jonesboro, Ark, IA
tally.
Among the seriously injured are:
j. d. Bryant, Davenport. Ia.
w Guili, SS0ttu,nasa,ESI Ia. @ @4ssss
Joseph II. Donohue, Franklin, HI.
Express Messenger Bell died later.
making the total number OF dead ten.
Eighteen persons We're seriously in
jured, two fatally and fifteen others
i slightly. Most of the injured were bad.
LILY burned as well as mai1ned.
Responsibility for the wreck is laid
at the door Of the brakeman Of the
freight. who failed to flag the passens
ger train. He has disappeared. The
engine on the freight had Cbecome3
dead. /, and the crew was ordered to
remain on the tract turn the
switch for the passenger. then about
lSdue. The brakeman being ordered to
flag the Meteor. This he neglected8to
+ DO.
In the crash the baggage car tele-
scoped the engine, and landed in a.
cornfeld, while the smoker and two
chair cars were piled in on.
top of the engine. Most.of the injured
were In the chat cars, which took fire,
SOON after b wreck occurred.
1T was still dark when the wreck oc-s
cured, and the utmost confusiontfol-
lowed It was some time before those
1 I the crew who had escaped injury
were able, with the help Of passengers
who were unhurt, to aid the injured
The WrecIfng train carrying physicians
did not leave ForsScott for the scene
until several hours after the wreck oc-3
CURED. and 1t was IL O'clock before the
Head and injured were brought to Fort
Scott.
An Alabama Collision.
Birmingham. Ala, Dec. 21.-A south
bound passenger train on the Queen,
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