The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-15
RAILWAY MISHAPS
COST MANY lives
CARS ON WABASH ROAD PLUNGE
DOWN AN EMBANKMENT
NEAR PENDLEToN, MO.
Thirteen Are Killed and Fifty or
More Injured Train Plunges
Through Trestle in the South
Four Lives Lost.

Moberly, Mo-, Sept. THE south.
bound Wabash passenger train which
left Des Moines for st. Louis at 6:4O a.
m. was wrecked Tuesday near Pendle-
ton, Mo-, killing 10 passengers and
injuring more than so others. The
train, which was composed Of an en-
CINE, baggage and smoking cars, day
coach, dinner an Pullman sleeper, was
we'll filed, it being estimated by Wa
bash officials that there were about 500
persons on board. The train was run
ming at its scheduled speed when the
accident occurred. The day coach left
the track, and breaking loose from the
baggage and smoking cars, plunged
down an embankment, dragging the
diner with it. The Pullman did not
leave the track. The heavy dining car
crashed on top of the coach. and the
majority of those killed and injured
were passengers in the latter.
Awful Disaster.
Princeton, ILL.,, Sept. 8.-The Kansas
City fast passenger train on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad was
wrecked one-half mile east of Tiskilawa
I Wednesday night and more than 30 per-
sons were badly injured, three of whom
have since died. They are as yet uni
Identified. The passenger train colhded
with the rear end of freight train that
had broken in two. The engineer es-
capped injury and the fireman was seri-
ously hurt. Half q dozen passenger
cars were wrecked and the passengers
thrown in every direction, eight landing
in cornfield at one side Of the track.
Plunged Through Trestle.
Portsmouth, Va, Sept 10.-Shortly
after one o'clock Friday morning train
No. Al on the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road, consisting of an express car, a
mail car, two day coaches and q Pull
man sleeper, was derailed at a trestle
just south Of the Catawba river south
Carolina, and % miles southwest of
Monroe, N. c., followed by the wreck Of
light engine and caboose, resulting in
the death of four persons and the iniur-
ing of IS others. The killed are: Engi-
neer E. Y. Barksdale, Abbeville. S. G.:
Fireman Ed Roberts (colored), Atlanta.
Ca; Mrs. Black; unknown woman.
The train had crossed a bridge over
the Catawba river and was on a trestle
when the trestle fell in. The train, with
the exception of the Pullman car, fell Is
feet to the ground. A light freight. fol.
lowing close behind the passenger train.
struck the Pullman, and all fell over
onto the wreck, the engine of the freight
and box cars piling up on the Pullman.
In it's downward rush the train carried
away all telegraph wires Help was I'm.
mediately sent to the scene. The sup-
erintendent's Office at Atlanta. Ca. has
received information of the discovery of
evidence that the joints in the track
were tempered with. causing tie wreck.
Fatal Head-on Collision.
Romeo, ILL.,, Sept 10.-In a. head-on
collision Friday between two extra
freight trains on the Atchison. Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad here, because of the
dense fog of the early morning, one man
was killed and two others severely in.
jured. The engineers of the trains were
unable to see the danger signal at the
Romeo station, it is asserted, because
of the fog, and could not stop in time to
avert the collision.