The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-11
29 KILLED.;
go INJURED
IN HEAD-oN COLLISION.
MISSOURI PACIFIC EXCURSION
TRAIN TELESCOPED.

Conductor of Side Tracked
Freight Was Doing when the
First Section of worlds Fair
Excursion Passed-ThinIxinE the
Track Clear. He Pulled Ont in
the Face of the Approaching Pas
senger-Laden Special-MOre Than
Score of Lives Sacrificed by the
BIunder.
Warrensburg, Mo-, Oct. 10.-Twenty-
nine persons were killed and sixty
injured by a head-on collision of Mis-
souri, Pacific trains, three miles east
of Warrensburg to-day. The trains
were the second section of passen-
ger train from Wichita for st. Louis,
and an extra freight train. Most, of
the dead were residents of Missouri
and Kansas as are the injured.
The dead are;
Mrs. A. ]. Darsk and 12-year-old
son, Gilbert. Dexter, Kan.
w. H. Allen and two sons, Baird
and Francis. Pittsburg, Kan.
Dorsey Green. Pensboro, Mo.
7. T.. Dores. Bronaugh, Mo.
Nellie Sullivan. Cedarvale. Kan.
Ada Kane, Pittsburg, Kan.
Dollie Sullivan. Cedarvale, Kan.
Mrs. Hattie Kelsey, oxford, Kan.
G. A. Webber. Forestville. Pa.
Dizzy Ream, Bronaugh, Mo.
Cal Ream, Bronaugh, Mo.
Gertrude Loud, Bronaugh, Mo.
Clarence, Ollie and Jessie Herring,
CoffeYville. Kan.
DR.. H. P. McIlheny, Kingman, Kan.
Bessie McIlheny, Kingman, Kan.
Mrs. Susan Cooper, Kingman, Kan.
Phil. Ragel, wife, son, Edna, Kan.
Harry Carr. Sedan. Kan.
- Seidl, brakeman, jefferson
City. Mo.
Mrs. ]. ]. Easement, Sedan, Kan.
Josie Gregg, Sedan. Kan.
An unidentified woman, riding in the
cab of the passenger locomotive.
Filled With ExcursiOnists.
The passenger train, consisting of
two day coaches, a Pullman and a ca
boose, was loaded with Worlds Fair
excursionists from Southeastern Kan
sas and Southwestern Missouri. The
Wichita passenger train had been cut
in two at Pleasant Hill ON account IF
the heavy load and locomotive was
attached to the front car, with a bag
gage car as buffer. The extra freight
Lad been side-tracked at Montserratt
for the first section of the Wichita
train, which carried signals that a sec
ond section was following. A local pas
senger train passed and the freight
crew took the local for the second
section Of the Wichita train. and
pulled out of the side track. Three
miles west the freight met the second
section.
TeIescOped Crowded Car.
The impact telescoped the tender OF
the passenger locomotive and the
front car which was full of passen-
gers, and it was here that the sacrifice
of life took place. The passenger con-
ductor, e. L. Barnes, ran all the way
to Warrensburg to report the wreck
Every physician in Warrensburg and
hundreds of citizens hastened to the
wreck to assistath wounded. Twenty
persons were killed outright and eight
died within a few hours. The dead
were placed on fiat cars and brought
to Warrensburg. A coroner's jury is
now seeking the person responsible for
the wreck.
Thought the Track Was Clear.
The conductor of the freight train
says he was doing while his train
was at Montserratt and when the To-
cal train passed Engineer Horton be-
lieved it was the second section of the
Wichita train, and, thinking the track
clear, pulled out on the main line.
T. c. Dressed, postmaster at Easton-
ville Kan, was taken out from un-
der a heap of seven bodies. suffering
only a broken leg. f. N. Cunningham
of Warrington, w. Va, was lacerated
about the head.