The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-30
PLANNED TO
ROB BANKERS.
Bandits Cause Wreck of a Santa
Fe Train.
1t Included Party of Bankers
Returning from Convention.
SPIKES WERE REMOVED
Four Cars and Engine Fell
Through Bridge.
Thirty Persons Are Reported
Injured-NOne Killed.
A Number of Kansas People
Among Those Hurt.
1t Included Party of Bankers
Returning from Convention.
SPIKES WERE REMOVED
Four Cars and Engine Fell
Through Bridge.
Thirty Persons Are Reported
Injured-NOne Killed.
A Number of Kansas People
Among Those Hurt.

Among Those Hurt.
Pueblo, Colo. Oct. 9O.-As tine result
of what is thought to be the work of
train robbers. the Santa ~Fe Colorado
Chicago special. loaded with passeng-
ers from Denver, Colorado Springs and
Pueblo, was wrecked on a bridge cross
ing the Arishapa river, SO miles east
of Pueblo and between Fowler and
ManzanoIa, at 1:3O o'clock this morn
ing. The wreck appears to have been
caused by the removing of spikes of
three rails on the approach to the
bridge. The engine left the track and
turning slightly to the right carried the
train onto the pile approach to the
bridge and knocked the bridge into the
creek The engine, two baggage cars,
chair car and day coach plunged to the
bed of the creek and lie there in mass
of wreckage. Nobody was killed. but
thirty persons were injured. Only four
of these are reported to be seriously
hurt. Following is a list of the injured:
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
J. E. Walker, engineer, La Junta;
badly scaIded.
Mrs. Mary Anderson, Nortonville.
Kas.; head cut and injured internally.
'AOfFAs 0NANCA 4AJQlOQ III
ternally.
W. A. Patterson, Denver; bruised.
SLIGHTLY INJURED.
A. Bates, fireman, La Junta; E. G..
J. M. Aubolun, Grenola, Kan; Mrs.
Hamilton, Colorado Springs; NJ r.
Colburg, Middlesboro, Ky. Mrs. TilIie
Shett, Denver; Joseph Stevens. Pueblo;
son, Cold Harbor. n. D.; e. F. 1rkins,
Dallas, Tex; Mrs. Mary Laird, Cum
nlings, Kan; Robert Collum, Carbon
dale. Kan; Carl Burg, F. r. Risley,
Gibbs, No; Mrs. ]. A. Hoffman, Dallas,
Tex; J. F. McGill, Washington, D. c..
J. E. Reinhardt, Owensboro, Ky; Mrs.
J. L. Reinhardt, Owensboro, KY; Mrs.
Matilda Hamilton. Moss City, Kan;
P. w. Shoup. Unionville, Mo. c. Ben
nett, Buffalo, N. Y; Louis DueleS, Ell
Paso, Tex: Mrs. F. D. White, Alice
Bowman, Whitehead, ILL.,; John San
doval, Trinidad, Colo.
The entire train with the exception
of two cars went into the creek One
Pullman stopped with the front end
projecting over the embankment. The
special car Del Rosa in which were A.
S. Kimberly and party of eastern bank
ers returning from California, did not
leave the track "A relief party headed
by DR.. w. L. Dorland. left Pueblo, for
the scene of the accident shortly after 2
o'clock and party also left La Junta
about the same time, taking physicians
injured were taken to the hospital at
La Junta and the other passengers re-
sumed their journey. The officials say
the track will not be clear until tomor-
row night and trains will be sent by
way of Trinidad.
THE DENVER ACCOUNT.
Denver, Colo. Oct. 3O.-A special to
the Post from Pueblo, Colo. says:
East bound Chicago flyer. No. 6. on
the Santa F'e road, was wrecked a 1:30
this morning at Aspishapa creek. four
miles west of Fowler.
A Star-JournaI special says that the
spikes had been removed from one rail
on the bridge over the creek and that
when the engine left the track one
spar of the bridge. one hundred feet
long. went down. Two cars with the
engine fell into the creek Engineer
John Walker was badly scalded and
may die. Ten or twelve persons were
injured. One of the most seriously in
jured is John g. Benson of North Da-
kota. His face was crushed. Relief
trains were sent to the scene of the
wreck from Pueblo and La Junta and
the injured were taken to the latter
place. The private car occuDied BY A.
bankers. returning from California
was attached to the train, but so far
as ascertainee none of this party was
injured There was but little water
In the creek at the time of the acci-
dent
THE PUEBLO STORY.
Pueblo, Col, Oct 30.-A Santa Fe
train has fallen. through bridge be
tween Fowler and ManzanoIa, 40 miles
east of here. No one was killed, but the
engineer is badly injured
The wreck seems entirely inexplicable
thus far. The stream. a dry one was
spanned by a steel bridge and the mo.
lnent the locomotive of the eastbound
passenger train struck it the bridge. col
lapsed.
The engine, two baggage cars and two
coaches piled up in the creek bed with
Engineer John Walker of this city
pinned in his cab. in a cloud of escap-
ing steam. He was rescued by quick
work and is severely but not fatally in
jured. A Pullman coach with one end
hanging over the chasm stopped there
and the other six coaches all full of
passengers and including A. S. Kimber-
ly's special car remained on the track
Thirteen persons were injured ana We're
taken to the La Junta hospital. Doctors
We're taken to the scene of the wreck
from Pueblo, ManzaIo and Rocky Ford
While workmen are at work on the
wreck trains are being sent around by
way of Trinidad.
INJURED REACH LA JUNTA
train sent from here this morning to
bring the injured frort4 the wreck of
passenger train No. 6 on the Santa Fe,
about % miles east of this citv. has
arrived and those seriously injured
have heen taken to the hospital E7nei-
neer Joseph Walker is probably the
most seriously injured, having sus-
tanned severe bruises and scalds. Sew
erals passengers were more or less
bruised but none received serious in
iuries.
The cause of the wreck is not known,
but several theories are advanced. One