The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-04
RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED.
Cars Thrown Down an Embankment
Twenty Feet High.

Kansas City. Mo-, Dec. "a relief train
which went from here TO the scene OF
inc wreck returned late tonight bringing
many of the injured 10 the Missouri, Pa
ciIlc hospital and other hospitals in this
The wreck occurred fourteen niles west
of Dead Mans curve. near WarreEsburg.
Wnerc the worst wreck i'm the history of
the Missouri Pacific railway happened i'm
october. when thirty persons lost their
Supposition has it that oriers were
given the train crew AT Center View today
70 slow up at the waterowrks bridge on
account Of broken rail there. ]; seems
that the train was behind the schedule
time, aud this order was not heeded When
tne heavy passenger train. running at Il
nigh rate of speed. struck this bridge
striking the broken rail which turned and
projected from the ground. tho, was "a
tremendous crash and three coaches. diner
ana sleeper were buried down an en-
pahkincnt twenty feet high. Ind the last
car was thrown into a stream OF water
carving the bridge with it,
Shrieks and cries arose from mothers
thinking of their children. ana men Law
under the debris helpless TO save their
families. The scene was heart-rendine
Railroad physicians were summoned TO the
scene at once and they worked for hours
upon the wounded. who wore taken TO
nearby houses one country nome was
turned into a hospital
Injured.
/. n. Hickman. state building and loan
commissioner of Warrensburg, Me, hack
hurt.
Wallace Crossley. representative-elect
from Johnson county, Missouri, badly
r. {. Fersuson. county treasurer. Hold
6. E Mcdonald warrensbure. badly
Mrs g. fTruase. kremIm. Okla. con-
fusion on head.
Helen Truase, KremHn. confusion ON
head.
John Fowler. clarksburg. Mo. knee
H. Claxton (coIored. St. Louis. will die.
Mr.. Eddy. Lincoln. Neb., hip sprained.
T. d. Smith, ST. Louis head and face
Mrs. Max Wolf. Kansas City. eve hurt
and neck badly injured.
Mrs. John Eberhart, Kansas City, shout
der and hand crushed.
head.
W II. Pierce. wife and daughter. Pu-
ohio Colo. bruised; Mrs. Pierce's hip
seriously injured.
Mrs. Thomas Oates warrcnsburg. Mo.
Hiss Ora Mccord Denver. head LAGER
sted
r. 2. Priest warrensburg. neck
wrcnchcd and body bruised
Tom Barrett. BarTct. Kan. head hurt
q. ~ Landes. Warrcnsburg. head cut
and bruised
Mrs. !, T. HrubesSy, Pueblo. and four
small sons all bruised about heads and
Mrs. Gilctt New York, aged 20 years.
badly bart.
Miss Minnie GilIctt. New York, body
bruised.
u. 5 Moshcr, warrcusburs. scalp lac
Grated.
There were thiyy members of the War
rcnSburE lodge Knights of PNthiaS ON
the wrecked train and few of them es-
capped injury
James Ruler, Holden. Mo-. lex injured.
John Ross, jefferson City. Mo-. head
CT
Mrs. George Wells. Salt Lake city. leg
hurt.
William Jsmaison. Trinidad. Colo. head
injured.
" 4. Mcbride. Warrcnsburg. Afo.. leg
Spr2incd.
Albert Thomas 81. Louis. serious.
NJ J. Payne. St Louis. Pullman con
ductor. ribs broken. knee fractured.
Mrs. William Jameson. Trinidad Colo
collar bone broken.
Miss LoreHa DolliQue. Wichita. eye de- I.
stroycd.
II. FrankeL Kansas City. mead badly
cut.
a. Z. Cartwright. Louisville Ky, limbs
badly cut
George Austin. warrensburg. shoulder
broken.