The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-06

morning with the dead and injured.
The Dead.
A. G. WRIGHT, Kansas City, Mo.
JAMES GRIFFIN, Claremont, Mo.
w. S. MARTIN, De Kalb, Ill.
WILLIAM WELLS, Jacksonville, Ill.
GAIL FULLER, young girl, Block
town, Iowa. 8
e. r.. MEYERS, Buffalo, N. Y.
FAY FULLER, girl, years old.
e. RANKIN.
G.. A. WRIGHT, Kansas City.
The Unidentified Dead.
Woman about 25 years of age.
Girl, child about 1 year old.
Woman of 25 years, baggage
checked to Tyrone, Okla.
Woman of middle age, ticket to Ty-
rome, Okla.
Girl 16 years old.
Child 8 years old.
Child 8 years old.
Boy IL years old.
Boy Is years old, brown and white
checked suit.
Girl 10 years old, brown dress.
Woman 40 years old, weight about
155 pounds.
Woman As years old, plain band
checked waist.
Man so years old.
The dead are being brought to To-
peka. Many of them are badly multi
ated.
The Injured.
G. w. Sherman, Mcfarland, Kan,
slightly.
Blanche Martin, st. Joseph, MO-, foot
sprained, face cut.
p. w: Totnaa..,i@ Harlan, Mo, back
and head injured; not serious
MollysF Fuller, 81 ckton, Iowa; head
and back. not serious.
C. A. Pried, Everest, Kan, sprains.
Mrs. H. B. Ropske, Louisville, KY,
back injured, not serious. 49, &
Mrs. d. T. Fuller, Blockton, Iowa,
Hattie Ellinger, Lindsboro, Kan,
Gail Fuller, Everest, Kan, badly
bruised.
Dan H. Wadsworth, Armourdale,
Kan, leg broken.
Clarence Fowler, Hanson, KY, head
cut.
| Mrs. Alice Rosebo, address not CIV
en-, bruised. -.
:. Mrs. M. I. Hill, address not given,
| leg and arm fractured, serious.
H. A. Jones, Everest, KAN, nose
fractured, face cut. -;
| JIG. Maggie, conductor, Kansas City,
ankle broken, bruised.
| 5 r.. Allen, porter, Topeka, back in
| jured, not serious.
! Frank H. Arville, Chillicothe, Mo-,
6 years old, head cut.
L.. ". Frazier, Kansas City, shoulder
hurt. "
J. veneman, conductor of Pullman,
Kansas City, Mo.
o.; Swanson, Lane, Kan.
f.. Il. Beatty, Pennsylvania.
T. E. F. Adams, brakeman, Everest
/ a n. = =.a . r j..
Mrs. Rose Bulb, Atchison county
Kan.
| Mrs. Bertha shubert, st. Claire, Ill
1 Ola Parvo, Lynne, I. T.
/ The train, which left Kansas City
at 10 o'clock last night, was twenty
minutes; late, and at the time of the
accident was running at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour. The train car
Tried many persons :. for Oklahoma
| who had taken advantage of the
homesteaders' excursion rates that
4 closed yesterday. 1t also contained
| thru sleepers and chair cars for Sar
Francisco and Los Angeles.
Wreck Was Most Serious.
/ The wreck was one of the most Sc.
riOus that has happened on, the Rock
Island system in years. Occurring as
it did at a small station with few
facilities for aid, and in the darkness
there was much delay in extricatine
and caring for the dead and injured
The train was composed of a com
binatione baggage and mail car, a reg
ular baggage car, smoker, touris
sleeper and a standard sleeper.
i Passenger Had Right of Way.
The wreck, according to the pas
senger conductor, was caused by thu
freight crew running off schedule. TIL,
passenger train. had the right of way
he declares, and the freight trail
should have waited for it to pass a
Maple HILL six miles west of thu
scene Of the collision. The wreck &C
Cured at a curve.
The hero of the wreck was DR.. Bel
of New York city, a young physician
himself crippled, walking on
crutch DR.. Bell, altho slightly tur
as a result Of the collision, was tn
first man to leave the Pullman sleep
: er, which was not damaged. Strug
Cling heroically forward on hi
crutches, he Immediately assume,
charge Of the rescue work. First h
ordered the chair car and sleepe
cleared. Then, after directing the re
moval Of the injured to these cars
he allayed their pain as much as pos
, sible without medicines or instru
ments, bandaged legs and arms wit
Strips torn from SHeeLS ana p1llON
) cases, administered what whisky wa
II at hand to deaden pain until the re
!, lief train should arrive, and saved tn
> life Of the fireman by tieing an arter
with the aid of pen knife and
piece Of string.
DIR. Bell Was Modest.
- After working until nearly e2
r hausted, DIR. Bell only gave way whe
( the physicians arrived from Topek
Y with medicine and instruments. The
4 he steadfastly refused to disclose HI
: name, and it was only PARTIAL
r learned from his fellow passengers.
DR.. Bell was on his way to Ell Pas,
8 Texas, for his health. Soon after ri
: turning to Topeka from the scene {
j. the wreck he boarded another trai
$ for the south, sefusing either to di.
: close his full name and address {
20 submit to an interview.