The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-02
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Missouri Pacific L i m it e d
Wrecked Near Miller.
CAUSED BY BROKEN RAIL
One KanSonS Killed and Four
teen People Hurt.

Kansas City. Feb. lone person was
killed and fourteen injured in Missouri
Pacific Wreck caused by a broken rail
yesterday morning at $40 o'clock near
Miller Kan. The Colorado and Kansas
Limited train. which left Denver Satur-
day afternoon and was scheduled TO ar
rive here at $50 Sunday morning, was
derailed few hundred feet west Of the
station at Miller while running at speed
of forty miles an hour. The engine and
rear car Pullman, did not leave the
track, but the baggage car, mail car
smoker and chair car, which constituted
the balance of the train, were ditched
and badly shattered
OF those injured Mr.. and Mrs. Shouse,
Frank Petrick and Mail Clerk Sanford
were brought to Kansas City yesterday
afternoon. The Shouses were plased in
the Sisters hospital under the care of
Dr.. A. l.. Fulton. Petrick left last night
for Chicago. his original destination, and
Sanford was taken TO the Missouri Pa
Others Of the passengers We're left at
different points on the Missouri Pacific
between here and Usage City.
Surgical aid reached the injured IN
less than thirty minutes after the acct
dent Several Usage City physicians were
taken to the spot and one relief train
was started from OssaWatonie and an
other from here Mrs. Shouse, Of Shields,
Kan. is the only one of the passengers
seriously injured At the time of the
derailment she was in the front end Of
the chair car. DR.. Fulton reported late
last night that she may lost her leg but
that her injuries are not likely to prove
fatal The other victims are not ser
iously hurt
The body Of w. L. Brown was found
IN the wreckage of the smoking car. It
was badly crushed. indicating that death
must have been instantaneous. There
was no one on the train who knew the
man his Identification being ascertained
through papers found upon him. The
body was AIKEN to Osawatom1e, where it
is ching held subject to instructions from
relatives.
The derailment was caused by the
Swapping of a rail. Whether or not the
rail had cracked before the engine Of
the wrecked train struck it is not known.
1t is the theory Of railroad men that ten
seconds before the engine reached it, the
rail was intact. but that the extreme
GOODNESS of the past week had rendered
it breakable The fact that the engine
and tender passed over it safely is the
ground upon which the theory is based.
That the Pullman held the track is due
10 the setting of the air breakes caused
by the parting of the train.
The tour cars which were derailed
plowed up the track and ground for a
distance less than the length of the train
The bodies Of the cars slid from the
trucks and all landed a fey feet in the
clear, ahead Of the wheels The baggage
and mail cars stopped without turning
ovar. but tho smoker and chair car were
rolled over on their sides. None of the
car; was telescoped.
The dead
w. L. BROWN, Ransom, Kan, crushed
to death.
The injured:
Z. J shouse, Shields, Kan, leg broken
and cut
Mrs. e. J. Shouse. Shields. Kan. bruise
on hands and internal injuries
Frank Petrick Timkin. Kan, Bruise on
hands, back and legs; inhaled steam.
William l. Schubert. St Louis, head
injured.
Miss Ora Lovelace. Alamont. la, slight
scaids on lees.
". c. poan. st. Louis. body bruises and
spraned wrist.
Thomas \. Fulton, 1908 Locust street,