Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10
II KILLED IN A WRECK
Fearful Head-On Railway
Train Collision Today
ON MISSOURI PACIFIC
WORLDS FAIR EXCURSION FLYER
CRASHES INTO A FREIGHT.
Second Section of Passenger Loaded
With Persons for st. Louis -
Occurred in Marrow Cut.

seven persons were killed and thirty in
| jured, some of them fatally, in a head-end
| collision today two miles and a half east
| OIL Warrensburg, Mo-, between the second
| section OF Missouri Pacific passenger
| train, which left Wichita, Kansas last
| night for ST. Louis with worlds fair excur-
| slonists. and heavy westbound extra
| Height train. The collision occurred In
what is called Dead Mans Bend" Both
| engineers and both firemen saw the danger
| and jumped. The forward coach of the
| passenger train telescoped and the remain
| der of both trains badly damaged
| According to the local office of the Mis-
| souri, Pacific the engineer of the freight was
| to blame for the wreck, having forgotten
| Lis orders. He had been ordered to wait
| on siding at knobnoster, Just east of
Warrensburg, but neglected to do So The
trains met at a sharp curve.
Travel to the worlds fair has been so
heavy that all roads recently have been
sending out many of their trains in two or
more sections. The train wrecked today
was made up at Wichita Sunday night and.
as is the custom, it picked up additional
coaches along the line. The last coach
taken up was at Pleasant Hill, No. at
| about o'clock this morning All of the
coaches were crowded.
Impact Was Terrific.
| Both trains We're running at good rate
| of speed when the wreck occurred. Dawn
| had hardly begun to break and neither crew
| was aware of the approach of the other
| train until they were almost upon each
| other. The impact Of the collision was ter
| rife. The sleeping passengers were hurled
| in every direction. The most of the killed
were in the forward coach, which was well
| crowded
! The spot where the wreck occurred was in
| a narrow cut and this fact, with the dark
| ness, added to the difficulty of the situation.
The greatest confusion ensued after the
| first lull following the crash, and the groans
of the injured were added to the escaping
| steam of the wrecked locomotives.
1t was some time before word was sent
back to Warrensburg and news of the
wreck was spread. Relief trains carrying
physicians were sent out as quickly as pos
sible from surrounding towns and every
thing possible was done to aid the injured.
1t was some time before the dead and
| injured could be extricated from the de-
bris. The dead were carried np the track
and laid in rows in an open space until
the relief train arrived, while the injured
We're cared for as we'll as could be.
1t was long time before the names of
the victims could be secured and the ma
ture of the injuries was known.
The Killed.
The dead:
Mrs. w. ]. Darst and son Gilbert, aged
twelve, Dexter, Kan; instantly killed. w.
H Allen and two sons, Bird and Francis,
Pittsburg Kan. Dorothy Greer Penns-
boro', Mo. L. F. Bures Cal Reed Ger
trude Loud, Dizzy Ream, all of Bronaugh,
Mo- Adde Kane Pittsburg, Kan. G. \.
Webber, Fountain, Pa. Clarence Herring
-, Kan. - Sidel, head brakeman of
freight; killed instantly. Nellie and Dolly
Sullivan, Cherryvale, Kan. Hattie Kelley,
Dosia Gregg, Bronaugh, Mo. DR.. HI. L.
| McIlheney, Springman. Kan.
The Injured.
The injured: D. D. Hale Dexter Kan,
thigh broken; Mrs. Hale, wife of above,
leg and body injured, serious; Amelia Eng
land Dexter, limbs badly crushed; L. c.
Dressed, Eatonville, Kan, serious; E. L.
Barnes, conductor passenger train, slight
ly; E. D. Rossen, engineer passenger train.
badly scalded; - Hoten, engineer freight
train serious; Perry NJ. Allen, Coffeyville,
Kan, legs badly crushed; Bit Tottman,
Cedarville, Kan, cut about body, injured
internally; Amelia Trautwine, st. Louis;
E. S. Nicholson, Dexter, Kan, hurt about
head Ruth Stewart Fourman, Independ-
ence, Kan. serious; w. h. Fourman Inde-
pendence serious; William ]. Darst, Dex-
ter, Kan, slightly; Miss N. ]. Wood, Dex-
ter, Kan, slightly; Fred Barnes Oxford
Kan, scalded, arm hurt; Elizabeth Cow
edly, Adrian, Kan, serious; E. T. Cow
edly, Adrian. serious.
Freight Fails to Take Siding.
The freight train was an extra Its crew
had, according to the story of the conductor
of this train, been instructed to take a
siding and let the passenger train pass.
The first section of the passenger train had
gone by when the freight pulled out. The
passenger train bore no signal of a second
section to come, he asserts, AMI he had no
reason to believe that another train WIS
due.
The scene of the wreck was OF. tha down
grade, on either side of which there was q
steep rise. Both trains had put on extra
steam to carry them up the opposite hill,
and when they met at the curve at t.le
lowest point they were running ~ i terrific
rate.
The passenger train was made up of three
coaches and a Pullman, with no baggage
car. the front coach being next to the
tender. The freight train Il heavy one.
When the trains met the heavy freight
train pushed the passenger engine back into
the first coach. The tender IL the passen-
ger engine literally cut the codcn in two in
the center and never stopped until it hsl
plowed itself half way through the c:ir
and its passengers, killing those in the
within reach In a most horrible manner.
Fearful Results Of Impact
Half dozen who were not killed outright
were so terribly injured that they died be-
fore they could be removed from the debris.
Many of the dead were almost unrecog-
nizable.
Arms and legs were dismembered in sew
eral cases. and together with baggage and
pieces of wreckage were tumbled together
into confused mass of bleeding human
form.
The next two coaches were badly dam
aged. seats being torn up and windows
smashed. but in these cars the passengers
Jared better. all except few escaping with
slight injuries. The Pullman remained up
right and none of its occupants were hurt
beyond sustaining a shakeup.
So tightly were the tender of the pas. |
senger engine and the first coach wedged |
together that 1t will take unusual efforts TO
separate then
The train crews, with the exception of |
Brakeman Sidei, escaped miraculously. the |
engineers and firemen sustaining only |
minor hurts.
The injured were taken to Sedalia ana |
the dead to Warrensburg. At Warrens- |
burg the coroner immediately set about |
making preparations for holding an inquest