Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-25
NINE LIVES LOST
TWENTY INJURED
Wreck of the St. Louis & San Fran.
cisco's North Bound Meteor.
DERAllED BY AN OPEN SWITCH
The bend Include Engineer, Fire
man. Conductor and Express
Ncsscnger-Thc sleeper
Escaped.

Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 22. In Mon.
days wreck at Godfrey, Kas., Of
Meteor the st. Louis & San Fran
ciscO's fast train from the south, nine
persons were killed and thirty-two 9TH
ers injured. or the injured four prob
ably will die, and II were seriously
hurt. The train ran into a switch and
all cars except the sleeper were de
rallied and turned over
The wrecked train was n OF the
finest and fastest in the service. It
was made up of two baggage and n
mail car, a smoker, two chair cars and
a sleeper.
When the train reached Godfrey II
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 a
slight cmbankmcnt. All saw the
sleeper turned over, and s fast was
the train running that the engine and
the forward baggage car anded nearly
sixty feet off the roadbcd before 1t
stopped. The sleeper remained 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 were
in the forward end of the smoker, n
four of them were killed instantly.
A news agent, who was badly man
gled, died on the relief train that car
ried the dead and injured to Fort
Scott.
Engineer Devices, Of Fort Scott,
Con IlctOr Roy, Of Topeka. and Fire
man Bishari. of Fort Scott. were all
In tartly killed. and Express Messen-
e = John Bell. of Kansas City, was Sc
I.unaly injured.
Others of the crew and almost every
passenger on the entire train, except
those in the sleeper, who escaped with
a severe shake-up, were injured, some
of them seriously.
The Dcnh.
James Kirkpatrick, Mosby, Mo.
r.. A. Devices, engineer, Fort Scott,
Kas.
George Hoyt, conductor, Sapulpa.
/. r.
John Blucbacker, news agent, Kan
sas City.
James II. Twyman fcolorcd), Elem
ing, Kas.
Asa Morcland, Lenexa, Kas.
Lon Corbin, Bessie, Okla.
Joseph Corbin, Bessie. Okla.
Those Fatally Injured.
Sheridan Kcnable, Hoopcrstown,
Okla.
Il. +. Garroway. Joncsboro. Ark.
John Bell, express messenger, Kan.
sas City.
II. b. Darlington, mail clerk, Kan
sas City.
The Seriously Injured.
Mrs. T.. c. Call, Hobart, okla.
Ho-ry Mckinley, Snidcr, Okla.
Thos. Kent, Mountain View, Okla.
J. W. Gull, Ottumwa, Ia.
Henry M. Mcdonnell, Lodi, O..
l.. Howard Lee, Oklahoma City.
Okla.
Joseph II. Donohuc. Franklin, III.
Waiter Cosby. Kansas City.
!. ID. Bryan. Davenport, la.
". II. Farmer. Blackwell, Okla.
Elmer Corbin. Bessie, Okla.
Jacob Roesgcllcr, Parker, Okla.
&. ]. Donovan. Snidcr, Okla.
J. w. Adamson, mail clerk, Kansas
City.
Twelve slightly Hurt.
Twelve others were hurt slightly.
Most of the injured were badly burned
as well AK being manned.
In the crash the baggage car tele-
scoped the engine and landed in a corn
field. while the smoker and the two
chair cars were piled in a mass on
top Of the engine. Most of the injured
were in the chair cars, which took fire
soon after the accident.
J. A. BARLEY, the freight brakeman,
whose failure to flag the passenger
train caused the wreck. has not been
found. The Corbin brothers, two "f
whom were killed and one seriously
injured, were on their way home to