The San Francisco call., 1904-10-11
Twenty-Five Persons Meet
Death and Sixty Are Hurt
in Collision Between Pas
Senger Train and a Freight
ENGINEERS MISTAKE
CAUSES SMASHUP
Twenty Travellers Are Killed
Outright and Nine Others
Succumb to Injuries With
in Few Hours of Disaster

III Few Hours OF Disaster
WARRENSBURG, Mo-. Oct. TO-
Twenty-eight persons were killed and
sixty injured by collision of Missouri
Pacific trains three miles east of War
rensburg at 4 o'clock this morning.
The trains were the second section
Of passenger train No. 80 which left
Wichita, Kan, for st. Louis last night,
and an extra freight train Twenty
seven of the dead are in undertaking
rooms in this city and the seriously
wounded are in the railroad hospital
in Sedalia. The dead:
MRS. A. ]. DARST and 12-year-old
son, GILBERT.
w. u. ALLEN and two sons, BAIRD
and FRANCIS, Pittsburg, Kan.
DORSEY GREEN. Pennsboro. Mo.
T F. DORES, Bronaugh, Mo.
ADA kline, Pittsburg, Kan.
MISSES DOLLIE and NELLIE SUI
LIVAN, Cedarvale, Kan.
7. ALLEY.
S. A. WEBER, Forestville, Pa.
DIZZY REAM. Bronaugh, Mo.
CAL REAM, Bronaugn, Mo.
GERTRUDE LOUD, Bronaugh, Mo.
CLARENCE, OLLIE and JESSIE
HERRING, Coffeyville, Kan.
DR.. H. Y. McILHENRY, Kingman,
Kan.
BRUCE McILHENRY, Kingman.
MRS. COOPER, oxford. Kan.
PHIL RAGEL, wife and son, Edna,
Kan
HARRY CARR, Sedan, Kan.
w. SEIDEL, brakeman. Jefferson,
City, Mo.
MRS. J. J. EASEMENT, Sedan, Kan.
JOSIE GREGG, Sedan. Kan.
An unidentified woman riding in the
cab of the passenger engine.
Most of the injured are from small
towns in Kansas. They are;
A. J. Wood oxford, Kan, hands and face
scalded; Mrs. A. j Wood, Oxford, Kan,
bruised and internally injured. fatally hurt;
J. II. Sullivan Cedarvale. Kan. hands lacer-
ated and scalded: Charles Easement Sedan,
Kan. leg broken spine hurt. head and face
lacerated and bruised Dasia Gregg, Sedan,
Kan. left nip dlslocated and injuries below the
knee, scalded face and hands; Mrs. j. Esch,
Dexter Kan. left leg broken; j. Esch, Dexter.
Kan. face lacerated and scalded; Robert
by broken glass; Estelle Mahan. Cherokee.
Kan. hands injured; F N Cunningham.
ated ana scaidei: c1em B. Dozer, Cioverdaie
Kan. hands cut and scalded; J. r. Benning,
GreenOla, Kan. hands cut: Mrs. G. c.
Huston, Wellington, Kan. face and arms
scslded, back injured; Mrs Noah Bowman,
Oxford. Kan, face and hands scalded and
knee injured; Noah Bowman. Oxford. Kan.
face and hands scalded and shoulder injured;
Fred Barnes Oxford. Kan, arms fractured,
hands scalded and head hurt; J. r. Cole,
ated: William Locke Oxford. Kan, head
scalded: Mrs. William Locke, Oxford. Kan,
cut and bruised. one leg scalded; oma Cald-
well Oxford. Kan, hands scalded and
bruised in face and shoulder Cora Reese, Ok
ford Kan. scalded in hands; Mrs. Nellie
Ream, Brenaqgh No; right leg , broken II
Bagnes s'N conductor train No 20 bruised; Mrs
and ankle smashed: ]. d. Hale, Dexter. Kan,
left leg broken; Mrs. J. d. Hale, Dexter. Kan,
left leg broken; Ruth Stewart, Independence.
Kan. aged 10 years. legs scalded and badly
bruised about body; Mrs. Julia Wood, oxford,
Kan. injured about the head and ankles; Ed
Rosser. Jefferson city. engineer train No 30.
hurt about head and ankles. hips, shoulders
and Internally injured; w. w Young. fire
man on train No. so. head and face bruised,
serious; three persons unconscious. names and
places of residence unknown.
Many who were slightly injured made no
report and continued on other trains to ST.
Louis.
The passenger train consisting Of
day coaches, a Pullman car and a ca
boose, was loaded with Worlds Fair
excursionists from southeast Kansas
and southwest Missouri. The regular
train No. 80 had been cut in
two at Pleasant Hill on account of the
heavy load and an engine attached to
the front car without baggage car as
a buffer.
The extra freight had sidetracked at
Montserrat for the first section of
No. 80, which carried signals that a
second section was following. This was
by passenger train No. so,
which the freight crew took for the
second section of No. 80. The freight
pulled out of the sidetrack and three
miles west met the second section.
The impact telescoped the tender of
the passenger engine into the front car.
which was loaded with passengers, and
1t was here that the sacrifice of life
took place. The passenger conductor,
E. L. Barnes, ran all the way to War
rensburg and broke the news of the
wreck. Every physician in the town
responded and hundreds of citizens
hastened to the wreck and assisted the
wounded from beneath the timbers of
the broken cars. Twenty people were
killed outright and seven died before
o'clock. The dead were placed upon
fat cars and brought to this city and
DIR. Bills, the coroner, Immediately inn
paneled q jury and started an inquiry,
which is still in session.
The afternoon was taken UP in iden-
tifying the dead, and tonight the con-
ductor of the freight train is on the
stand. He claims to have been doing
while his train was at Montserrat
and when train No. so passed Engineer
Horton believed 1t was the second sec
ton of No. 80, and, thinking the track
clear. pulled out on the main line.
L. c. Dressed. postmaster at Eaton
vile, Kan, was taken out from under
a heap of seven dead bodies and escap-
ed with nothing more serious than a
broken leg