The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-09-08
DEATH PRESENT IN
ST. LOUIS COLLISION
Loaded Street Car Struck by {
Fast Train Near the
Fair Grounds.
SEVEN WE'RE KILLED
Over twenty. Five PASSENGERS Wert
SEVEN WE'RE
Over twenty Fiv Passengers Werf
lnjured-lt Is Claimed Motorman
Was Responsible for
Accident.

ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept. e.--Seven per-
sons were killed and nineteen were in
jured, two proably fatally and nine
seriously. by a collision of a Wabash
worlds fair shuttle train with q sub
urban electric car at the Sarah street
crossing. There were twenty-five pas
sengers in the car, and hone escaped
injury. The dead:
JOHN w. WILSON. Kirkwood, st.
Louis county, aged 70.
GEORGE w. MAJORS. aged so, st.
Louis county.
HARRY b. CULP. 60 years of age,
st. Louis.
ANDREW MCKINLEY, ~ years old.
st. Louis
M. B. BRISTOL, aged 60 years, Web
ster Grove, Mo.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN.
The fatally hurt:
M. B. Bristol, aged 50, Webster
Grove, st. Louis county, ribs broken
and internal injuries.
II. r. Kulp, aged 60, st. Louis, skull
fractured.
Seriously injured:
Raymond Reisler, aged II, living in
st. Louis, right leg lacerated n body
bruised.
Mrs. L.. r. Wilson, st. Louis, body
bruised and cut in face.
Miss Mary Buddensick, st. Louis,
right leg broken.
c. E. ~Shumacker, st. Louis, cut and
bruised about body.
Z. j. Coleman, Old Orchard, st. Louis
county, left leg broken.
A. B. Wilson. fireman. st. Louis,
slightly ,iured.
L.. r. Wilson, severe injuries.
Alfred Jennings. cut in face, and
body injured.
John Gillespie, Kirkwood, st. Louis
county, internally injured.
Crowds of people visited the morgues
in an endeavor to identify the bodies
of the dead taken there. After tenn
porary assistance by physicians at the
scene Of the wreck, those most seri-
ously hurt were taken in ambulances
to the city hospital, while the others
received attention at their homes. All
the victims except two, the physicians
say will recover.
Crowds at Morgue.
The shuttle train was returning to
the union station from the worlds fair
grounds at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour. it is stated. The street
car, which was on its way to the sub
urb with a load of people returning
home, stopped directly in front Of the
engine and was cut in two. The trucks
of the car were knocked 100 feet away,
while part of it's roo was carried 200
feet further by the train. Bodies Of the
dead n injured, with wreckage of the
dismantled car, were scattered along
the track for that distance.
A. w. Burbank, engineer Of the shut
tie train, who blarnes the potorman of
the electric car for the accident, said:
81 was within 100 yards of the sub
urban crossing when l saw the suburb
an car start across the track. Is
looked to me as if it had ample time
to get across" !,
The Waterman and the flagnian at
the crossing and some Of the passen-
gers confirm that the car started acrosp
the track and then stopped where IL
was struck. I
Car Wouldn't Moye. !
No satisfactory explaiatiSn has been
given why the car stopped in the mid
die Of the track after It started across.
Fred Utz, the gateman at the CROSS
ing. said:
MY orders have been not to use the
gates, although there are gates here.
when the car approached I saw 1t
and rang the crossing bell. The car
stopped, the conductor went to the
front II then l saw the car start
again and stop in the middle of the
track. 1t seemed to be dead"
Theodore Cook, the motormau, whose
shoulder was fractured, is held a pris-
oner at the city hospital, and the con-
ductor of the suburban car, Patrick
Sheehan, has been arrested.
Conductor Sheehan said of the acct
dent:
1.-THE motorman stopped the car at
the crossing and 1 went ahead TO see
IL the way was clear. I saw the train
approaching, but the flagman said:
Come on, hurry up; you can get
across" and as we had often SGT across
When a train was a good deal nearer
than that one was. ] gave the signal
for the motorman to come ahead. He
started ahead and / walked back
toward the rear Of the car to swing
upon the rear platform as the car
passed me. The car did not step on the
crossing. It was going across slowly
when it was struck"
At the Office OF the Wabash Railroad
company the following statement was
given to the Associated Press tonight:
From what can be lee rned thus far
the Waterman stationed az the crossing
did all that he could to step the street
car from crossing the tracks, but 1t
proceeded until half way across the
east-bound rails, when 1t stopped for
some noW reason.
1.-THE next instant the crash came and
debris was strewn about. Officials Of
our company hurried to the scene as
soon as the wreck was reported to us,
n at once began an investigation az
to who was responsible for the ac-
cident."
The crews of both the Wabash train
and of the suburban car were arrested
and taken to the Eighth district police
station.
SASSONEEE GETS AVIAN