Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-07
TWENTY KILLED
By Headon Collision on the
Rock Island Road,
Express and Cattle Train Meet-Not
aPerson Escapes Unframed.
Splendid Work by Slightly Injured in
Caring for Others.

i Topeka, Kan. Jan. 6.-Twcnty per-
sons were killed and 81 injured in the
/ Rock Island passenger wreck at VIII
lard, this morning. Most of the injured
| are in hospitals in Topeka Tho doc
tors announce that Ill will recover with
I! the exception of Mrs. NJ. A. Hill of
| Grccnsburg, Kansas. 1t is thought
| that carelcssncss of trainmen caused
| the wreck.
| General Superintendent Grubcr OF
| the Rock Island. makes the following
| statement to The Associated Press:
The engineer of the passenger train
| had orders to wait at Willard for the
1 special stock train. He passed on
mistaking Il freight train on the siding;
| at the station for the stock train. This
| caused the wreck. Nobody else is to
blame rs far as our information goes
\ formal inquest was held at the
| wreck. today, by Coroner Dooley Of
| Wahaunsee county. The Investigation
| will be continued, tomorrow,
| The train which left Kansas City at
10 O'Clock, Tuesday night, WAS 20
| minutes late and at the time of the ac-
cident was running at the rate of 80
| miles an hour The train carried
| many persons for Oklahoma, who had
] taken advantage of the homcsteaders'
| excursion rates that closed Tuesday
| 1t also contained through sleepers ana
chair cars for San Francisco and Los
\ Angeles.
| The wreck was one of the most Sc
| rious that has happened on the Rock
| Island system in years. Between Kan
SaS CITY and TODnka tho Rock Island
| 'uiu therc are no general Offices OF
| either road in this city details Of the
| disaster were obtained with difficulty
| Several reporters who boarded the re-
| lief train as it left Topeka, early
| Wednesday morning. were put off the
| train shortly after it started from that
| city and the first details of the COLI
! sion come from persons on the wrecked
train after they had been returned to
Ioi'eka.
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succeeded in cecaninc from That end
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