The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-24
Forty-two Persons Injured Near
Princeton, No.
Four Cars OF Rock Island Train
Leave the Track.
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT
Smoker and Mail Car Went Into
a Ditch.
Most OF the Injured Were Rid
ing in the Smoker.

Trenton, Mo-, Aug. 24.-Rock Island
passenger train No. 3. westbound, from
Chicago. was wrecked at the rock
crusher, one mile west of Princeton,
Mo-, late Tuesday afternoon. Two per-
sons were seriously injured and forty
others were injured less severely. The
two seriously injured are:
w. G. Robey, Allerton. Ia; abdo-
men and back.
J. w. S. Durham, Washington, Ia,
postal clerk; face cut. right shoulder
injured.
Slightly injured:
B. A. Jones, Mercer. Mo-; right knee
bruised.
Charles H. White. Oskaloosa. Ia;
head cut.
L. A T. Campbell, Princeton; arm
broken.
s NJ. Dunbar. Clio, To-; ear badly
cut and scalp wound.
F. e. McMeans, Davenport, Ia, pos
tai clerk; lip cut, chest and knees
hurt.
Howard Moore, Lineville, Ia; scalp
wound.
Mrs Howard Moore, LinevilIe, Ia;
injury to knee and face scratched.
William Clifton, Princeton; cut
about eye.
H. B. BracewelL Corydon. Ia; shin
Charles ClaudefeIter, Princeton;
ankle Sprained.
DR.. Benedict, Fort Wayne. Ind; leg
hurt.
Thomas Agee, Trenton; severe con-
fusion of scalp.
Hardy Chandler. Enid. o. t.; severe
injury to chest.
Express Messenger Van Bergen:
head cut and hips hurt.
Z. ]. Savage, South Bend, Ind; leg
injured.
right leg hurt
II. A. Howder, Clio, Ia; bruised on
head and left knee.
D. D. Garner, LinevilIe; hand
sprained and leg wrenched.
Charles Crigler, Princeton; cut on
a. stockdick, Katy. Tex; ankle
Q, L. Higgins. Tyrone, Tex. right leg
bruised.
Captain Gibson, Leon, Ia.,right elbow
and knee scratched.
H. NJ. Kirby. Keokuk, Ia, right les
bruised.
T. c. Carter. Holden. Ia. back
M. Pero, Mount Pleasant, Ia, head
cut.
Hattie Gipson, Trenton. back sprain-
ed.
Mrs. e. snedaker, Numa. Ia. hurt
Mrs: G. w. Drake, Lineville, back
slightly Sprained.
Jack Baldwin. Princeton, back and
head.
Mrs. N. Leverig. Cabu, R. L, head
cut.
Bertha Hermsford, Princeton, hip
G. c. Hill, Trenton, arm and knea
bruised.
lehman Murphy, Lexington, Mo, right
Lora M. McCannady, Ottumwa. in
jured internally, and abdomen bruised.
G. w. McCollum, Ottumwa, Ia,
G. W. CIaffaIan, Princeton, ankle
hurt.
H B. Campbell. Kansas City, hip
bruised.
W. S. Hart, Princeton, groin and side
D. M. Carney. Athens. Pa, right side
bruised.
D. A. Jones, Chanute. Kan, knee
hurt.
c. c. Matthews, Osborne, Mo-. head
cut.
Four cars left the track. They were
the mail and baggage cars, the smoker,
and one coach. The mail and smoking
cars tumbled down an embankment
and were badly damaged. The others
remained right side up, with one end
on the dump. The other pointed down
into the ditch. Most of the injured
were riding in the smoker. While the
cause of the wreck may never be
known definitely, 1t is believed that the
engine tank first climbed the rail. The
cause and nature of the wreck are in
many respects similar to those of the
big wreck at Altamont last week.
The wrecking crew from Trenton was
at Unionville, Ia, but reached the scene
of the disaster about $50 o'clock. Re-
lief trains had already been sent from
Trenton conveying officials and sur
geonS. The branch train to st. Joseph,
which waits for No. at Altamont, was
backed up to Princeton, arriving about
3 O'Clock. The passengers were trans
ferred to this train and a special stub
brought the Kansas City passengers
from Altamont. No. 3 was in charge
of Conductor T. E. Vansant, of Kansas
City, and Engineer P. ]. Mcdonald of
Trenton. 1t will require about eight
hours to clear the track for traffic. All
other night trains have been detoured.