The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-10-13
Catastrophe Overtakes People Bent on
Pleasure in Filled Coaches Near
Kansas City, Mo.

ty persons were killed outright.
List of Casualties.
The dead:
DARST, MRS. W. J.. AND son, GIL
BERT, aged l., Dexter Kan, Instantly
MAILEN. W, AND TWO SONS. BIRD
AND FRANCIS, rttsburs, Kan.
GREER, DOROTHY, pennsboro, Mo.
n HEEEs c Il b R;eI Bernnr a. Mo
LOUD, GERTRUDE BERNARD, Mo-
REAM, DIZZY, barnard, Mo.
KANE, ADDIE, pittsburg. Kan.
NERBER q. a., fountain. Pa.
HERkING CLARENCE, , Kan.
Sullivan, NELLIH AND DOLLY,
KELFE{. HATTY, oxford, Kan
LINDSAY, NJ, oxford, Kan
MlLHENEY, DE, IL L., Springmnn,
The injured:
y. d, Hale, Dexter, Kan, thigh broken.
Mrs. Hale, wife of above, ieg and body
Injured serious.
Amelia England, Dexter limbs badly
crushed.
/. {. Dressed Eatonyllc Kan: serious
f. l., Barnes, conductor passenger train,
{. d. Rossom, engineer train, badly scald-
- Ioton, engineer freight train. serious.
L.lI,. .r,.in,i ''' - '''''' i''''' VS.
Bit Tottman. Ccdaryillc, Kan, cut about
body injured mteruly.
Amelia IrastWluu. 81. Louis.
f.. ). Nicholson, Dexter, kan, hurt about
linn stewart r,o,r,,o, 1plo,o,doro
Kan. s,rious
W. T.. Fourman, Independence. serious.
HIiain j. parSt Dexter. nan, slightly
,,i it'u h"'Hcs' 'Al"fu' NAM ScaIutu' arm
Miss y j. Wood. Dexter. kan. serious.
Elizabeth Cov,lrly, Adriap Kan. srriou,.
L. I. CoWdlcy, Adrian. Kan. serious.
Fnoinear Il Rlare5
-, At'nr"IhS 10 tn@ NaINaS NY once or
'n' Missouri racine tHe engineer OF the
! i'IN.t was 20 D!"he Tor thr wreck, nav
ordered 10 wnjt on y siJinr NJ IInnh.
uoStcr just east of WmrenSburg, but
neglected to do SO. The trains met at Il
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. HE train wrecked to-
day, which was the second section OF
No. 80 was made up ut Wichita Sun
day night. The last coach taken MP was
mt Pleasant Hill, Mo-, ut about i o'clock
this morning.
Occurs ar Far1y Dawn
y - l,s., i,
'otn runs Mtle Iu"nInS ut 5oo'
rae OF Spesd Wnth inc wreck occurred;
Dawn had hardIy begun TO pfcak aha
lcitHer crew was aware Oh tne aPlIodcl
OIL inc o'her tram uM'lI iheE were utmost
upoh each other; ne ne impact OF me coy
ll'loh was lerFt+,. ne smtpli9 paSS'h-
Of the killed We're in the forward coach,
which was well crowded with passengers.
The spot where the wreck occurred was
in Il narrow cut and this fact. with the
darkness, added to the difficulty of the
situation. The greatest confusion cnsued
after the first lull following the crash and
the groans Of the injured we're added to
the escaping steam of the wrecked loco
motives.
Relief Trains for Aid.
II was some time before word was scnt
hocl; to Worrensbprr and news Of mo
wreck was snread n,lief trains carving
phvsicjnns were sent out MS quickly MS
possible from surrounding towns ana ev-
iured,
1t was some time before the dead and
injured could be cytricatef from the
debris. The dead were carried NJ the
track and laid in rows in nm omen Space
until the relief train arrived. while the
injured were cared for as we'll as could
be. 1t was long time before the names
Death Llst HroWs'
While earlier reports said twenty or
twenty-One had been killed, ut II o'clock
it was stated that ut that time the dead
numbered twenty-three. seventeen of
whom had been killed instantly, and the
injured numbered close to thirty, many