The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-09
over " SCORE
HURT IN Wreck
Serious Accident on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific Caused by
Broken Rail.
FALL FROM A BRIDGE
Cars Plunge Down a Twenty Two Foot
E%mbankment Into the Bed of a
Creek-Many Badly
Injured,

fiolden. Mo-. Dec. 6.-MiS5Ouli Pa
citic passenger train No. L. westbouni
from st. Louis to Kansas City. WAS
wrecked at the waterworks bridge two
miles east of here, resulting in the in
jury OF forty-tive persons. several of
whom We're seriously hurt.
The accident was caused by n broken
rail which projected from the track.
catching the first coach behind ,h.
mail car, throwing ii from the track
down a twenty-foot e%nbanknent and
causing two other coaches. u Pullman
and the dinper. to follow it. The. brok-
en- rail was on II bridge and the rear
Pullman rolled off the bridge into the
creek below and the passengers inside
were al! seriously injured. Two old
ladies imprisoned iE this car We're talk
en- out at the top after holes had been
made with aXes.
the mail car passed the bridge in safe
ty and remained on the track. but AN
the remainder OF the, train was de-
rallied.
The injured:
l.. II. Hickman, state building and loan
commissioner, Warrensburg, Mo, back
hurt.
Wallace crossley. representative-ci.ct
from Johnson county. Mo, badly hurt.
den, Mo: head cut.
G.. L. Mcdonald, Warrcnsburs, badly
Mrs. c.. Il. r. Trause, crerlin, Okla.
confusion on head.
Helen Trause, Cremlin, Okla. confusion
on head.
John Fowler, Clarksturg. knee spruined.
II; Clayton, eolored' ST; Louis; viii die.
E.. d.. Smith. st. Louis. head and face
Mrs. Max Wolf. Kansas City. eye hurt
and neck badly hurt.
Mrs. John Eberhart, Kansas City, Mo,
shoulder and hand crushed.
Mrs; M. G. Pierce, and baby. hurt about
w. II. Pierce, wife and daughter. Pueblo,
Colo. bruised, and Mrs. Pierce's nip seri-
Mrs. Tom Aotes, warrensburg. head
Miss Ora McCord, Denver, head laeer-
Il. P. Priest, warrcnsburg Mo. neck
wrenched and body bruised.
Tom Barrett, Barrett, Kan head cut.
Mrs. Gillett. New York, aged 30 years.
badly hurt.
Mrs. j. p. Hrubesky. Pueblo. and fonr
bodies.
Miss Minnie Gilett, New York. body
bruised.
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James Butler, Holden. Mo-. leg injured.
John Ross. Jefferson City, Mo. head cu:.
Mrs. George Wells, Salt Lake City, leg
hurt.
William Jamison, Trinidad. Colo, head
w. a. Mcbride, Warrensburs. Mo, leg
Sprained.
Albert Thomas, ST. Louis, serious.
Nj. j. Payne, ST. Louis. Pullman con-
ductor, ribs broken and knee fractured.
Mrs. William Jamison, Trinidad. Colo,
collar bone broken.
Miss Lorcna Dolliuue, Wichita, KAN, eye
destroyed.
II. Nrankel, Kansas City, head badly
cut.
A; L. c%ourtwright, Louisville, ny, limbs
George Austin, warrensburs. shoulder
broken.
Kansas City. Dec. Ga relief train
which Went from here to the scene OF
the wreck returned bringing many of
the injured to the Missouri Pacific hos
pital and other hospitals in this city.
The wreck occurred fourteen miles
west of Deadman's uIve, near War
rensburg, Mo, where the worst wreck
in the history of the Missouri Pacific
railroad happened last October. when
thirty persons lost their lives.
Supposition has it that orders We're
given the train crew at Centerville TO-
day to slow up at the waterWorks
bridge On account of a broken rail
there. 1t selnS that the train was be
hind the scheduled time. and this order
was not needed. When the heavy pas
Senger train, running at a high rate of
speed, struck this bridge, striking the
broken rail, which turned and projected
upwards, there was n tremendous crash
and three coaches, diner and sleeper
were hurled down ar embankrnent
twenty feet high, and the last car
was thrown into n stream 81 w,tle!,
carrying the bridge with il.