Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-11
FAIR TRAIN WRECKED
over TWENTY KILLED
Frightfrl Accident on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Road.
HEAD-oN COLLISION OCCURS
Passenger Train Carrying Worlds Fair
Excusionists and a Freight Train
Collide Near Warrensburg, Mo-, with
Terrible Results.

| ~0iiioe wear WarFenS0uFg, MO-, With
Terrible Results.
Kansas City, Oct 10-The second
section of Missouri Pacific passenger
train No. 80, from Wichita, Kans., to
st. Louis, carrying worlds fair excur-
slonists, and a westbound freight train
collided head-on just east of Warrens.
burg, Mo-, 80 miles south of Kansas
City, early today.
The forward coach of the passenger
train telescoped and the remainder of
the train was badly damaged.
Twenty persons were killed outright
and many more injured, some of them,
1t is believed, fatally.
Engineer Forgot His Orders.
According to the local office of the
Missouri Pacific, the engineer of the
freight train was to blame for the
wreck, he having forgotten his orders.
He had been ordered to wait on a sid.
ing at Knobnoster, just east of War
rensburg, but neglected to do so.
The trains met at a sharp curve.
Travel to the worlds fair has been
so heavy that all roads recently have
been sending out many of their trains
in two or more sections. The train
wrecked today was made up at Wi
chita, Sunday night, and as is the GUS
tom, 1t picked up additional coaches
hn
up was at Pleasant Hill, Mo, at about
o'clock this morning. All the coaches
were crowded.
impact Was Terrific.
Both trains were running at a good
rate Of speed when the wreck occur
red. Dawn had hardly begun to
break and neither crew was aware of
the approach of the other train until
they were almost upon each other.
The impact Of the collision was ter
rife. The sleeping passengers were
hurled in every direction The most
Of the killed were in the forward
coach
The spot where the wreck occurred
was in narrow cut, and this fact,
VITA the darkness, added to the diff
Gully Of the situation. The greatest
confusion ensued after the crash. II
was some time before the word was
sent back to Warrensburg, and news
Of the wreck was spread.
Relief trains carrying physicians
were sent out as quickly as possible
from surrounding towns and every
thing possible was done to aid the in
jured.
Work of Rescue.
and injured could be extricated from
the debris. The dead were carried
UP the track and laid in rows in an
open space until the relief train ar
rived, while the injured were cared for
as we'll as could be.
1t was long time before the names
of the victims could be secured. and
the nature Of the injuries made known.
A telephone message to the Associ-
ated Press from the scene Of the wreck
at II o'clock stated that at that time
tie dead numbered 25, II Of whom had
been killed instantly, and the injured
numbered close to 80, many Of whom
were in dying condition.
Partial List of Casualties.
The dead:
Mrs. w. J. Darst and SON Gilbert,
aged IL, Dexter, Kan, instantly killed.
W. H. Allen and two sons, Bird and
Francis, Pittsburg, Kans.
Dorothy Greer, Pennsboror, Mo.
L. F. Bures, Bernard, Mo.
Cal Reed, Bernard, Mo.
Gertrude Loudner Bertrand, Bernard,
Missouri.
Dyer Ream, Bernard, Ma.
Addie Kane, Pittsburg, Kans.
G. A. Webber, Fountain. Pa.
Clarence Herring, of Kansas.
- Sidell, head brakeman, Of the
freight train, killed instantly.
The injured:
- Hale, Dexter, Kans., had his
thigh broken. Mrs. D. D. Hale. leg
and body injured, serious Emelia
England, Dexter, Mo-, limbs badly
crushed. L. s. Dressed, Etonvi1le,
Kans., serious.
The freight train was an extra. 1t
had, according, to the conductor of
this train, been instructed to take sid
ing and let the passenger train pass
The passen ger train bore no signal Of
the second section to come, he asserts,
and had no reason to believe that an
other train was due.
Running at High Speed.
The scene of the wreck was on
down grade on either side of which
there was a steep rise. Both trains
had put on extra steam to carry them
up the opposite hill and when they met
at the curve the lowest point, they
were running at high rate. The pas
senger train was made up of three
coaches and a Pullman with no bag
gage car, the front coach being next to
the tender. The freight train was a
heavy one. When the trains met the
heavy freight pushed the passenger
engine back into the first coach.
The tender of the passenger engine
literally cut the coach in two and
never stopped until it had ploughed
itself half way through the car and its
passengers, killing those in the for.
ward end instantly and mangling all
within reach.
Victims Badly ManoIed.
Half a dozen who were not killed
outright were so badly injured that
they died before they could be remov-
ed from the debris. Many of the dead
were almost unrecognizable. Arms