The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-09-10
ANOTHER DISTSTER..
PEOPLE ON TRAIN ARE CAR.
RIED OVER AN EN-
BANKMENT.
Eight Killed and Fifty Injured
Day Coach Leaves the Track
and, Breaking Loose
Drsgs Diner With
It-Other News.


Drsgs Diner With
It-Other News.
Moberly. No., Sept. 6.-The
south. bound Wabash passenger
train which left Des Moines for st.
! Louis at $40 a. M, was wrecked
I today near Pendleton, Mo-, killing
eight passengers and injuring fifty
others.
Immediately upon receipt of, the
news of the wreck, relief train
was sent out aud the dead and more
seriously injured were brought back
here. The train which was compos-
ed of an engine, baggage and smok-
ing care, day coach, diner and Pull
man sleeper, was well filed, it be-
ing estimated by Wabash officials
that there were about five hundred
persons on board. The train was
running at it's schedule speed when
the accident occurred. The day
coach left the track and breaking
loose from the baggage and smok.
ling cars, plunged down an embank.
ment, 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. There was
no one in the dining car, 1t is stat
ed, except the employees, who escap-
ed with injuries.
Dayton, O., Sept. Frank
Schaffer, prominent wealthy busi-
ness man, it is charged, arranged,
through the pretended connivance
| of the family physician, to kill his
wife. The police today arrested the
alleged would-be murderer. Schaf-
fer is fifty-four years old, president
of an envelope company and form
erly owned and managed several
retail groceries under the name Of
the Cincinnati Grocery Company.
The alleged wish to wed a girl in
the employ of the envelope compa'
ny, and with whom Schaffsr, it il
said, is madly in love, bred the de-
sire to get rid OF his wife.
According to the police report
and that of DR.. Charles A. Kiefer
the Schaffer family physician, Schaf
fer went to the doctor and pro
posed to give DR.. Kiefer $500 if hs
would poison or otherwise xii
Schafer's wife. DR.. Kiefer pretend
, ed to agree to the bargain, but sait
he would not prescribe the poison
himself, but would arrange will
DR.. j. @. Adams for deadly drug
Meantime DR.. Kiefer advised DR.
E Adams, when the two agreed upol
q programme of giving harmless
drug to the Intended victim. Th
police were also advised of tn
9 scheme. Two detectives were Sc
i creted in an adjoining room Wed
: nesday night, when final arrange
ments in the death bargain wer
i made between the doctor and Schai
Q fer, and the harmless tablets wer
J, given to the latter to administer t
: his wife. The first of these was
/, be given this morning.
g The conversation that took plac
g according to the report of the detee
r. tives, Neidergal and 'Kincaid, wa
: as follows:
}, Schaffer-Doctor, have the car
D sules.
J. Kiefer-All right, schafer. Th;
i lis my first job, and it will be tt
= last, but I need the money.
Schaffer, (pointipg to his mouth
Y Mum is the word, Doc. Ho
J. long will it take to kill her?
, Kiefer-It may kill her Instant
% or she may lipger for short tim
= You cannot always tell.
Schsfer-When shall I give 1t
1T her? - -
,e Kiefer-Give her a. capsule at
,e O'Clock tomorrow morning.
,eI Schafer-Then had better
D. downtown early SO I will be ava
at They will call me by telephone, al
rt I will call you right away, Doc,
you can be there.
Kieffer-How do you stand wi
the coroner, Schafer?
e, Schafer-I do not know, but
s. think ! can fix that all right. VI
n will be the physician, and you c.
vwe w tell him she died Of heart troubI
K, Kieffer-Yes I will tell aim
ID have been attending him for We
rs rs for rheumatism # tie heat and
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