The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-11
FAIR SEERS
 IN WRECK TWcnty-eight Persons Are
 Killed. ENGINEER IS TO BLAME Terrible Smash-up Near Warrensburg. Mo. Missouri Pacific Passs.ssr Coach coi- uded with Extra Freight Train and Happy sishs-seer. Were
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NGNEER IS TO BLAME

warrensburg. Mo. Oct, 1o.-Twenty- eight persons were killed and sixty in- jured by collision of Missouri Pacific trains three miles east of warrensburg today. The trains were the second sec ton of passenger train No. 30, which left Wichita. Kss.. for St. Louis last night and an extra freight train. The dead are in undertaking rooms in this city. and most of the wounded are in the railroad hospital in sedalia. Mo. The dead--Mrs. A. R. Darsk and 12- -oid son Gilbert, Dexter, Kas.; W. H. Allen and two sons. Baird and Fran cisco, Pittsburg, Kas.; Dorsey Green. Pennsboro, Mo-; T. F. Dores, Bron- augh, Mo-; Ara Kane. Pittsburg, Kas. Dolly Sullivan. Cedarvale. Kas.; T. H. Alley, Cedarvale, Kan: Mrs. Hattie Kelsey, Oxford, Kas.; G. A. Weber. | Forestille, Pa.: Dickey Ream, Rron- augh. Mo-; Cal Resm, Bronaugh. Mo 1; Gertrude Loude. Bronaugh. Mo-; Clar- ence Herring, pr H. P. McIlhenny. Kingman, Kas.; Bessie l.. McIlhenney. | Kingman, Kas.; Mrs. Susan Cooper. Kingman. Kas.; Phii Ramei. wife and son. EIna Kas; Harry Carr. Sedan, Kas.; - Zidei. Brakeman. Jefferson City, Mo-; Miss ! J. Cassment, Sedan. Kas.; an unidentified woman riding in the cab of the passenger engine. Most of the injured are from small towns In Kansas.
 Front Coach TeIescoped. The forward coach of the passenger train telescoped and the remainder of both trains were badly damaged. Twen- ty persons were killed outright and many more were injured, some ofthem. 1t is believed. fatally.
 According to the Kansas City ofice of the Missouri Pacific. the engineer of the freight was to blame for the wreck. having forgotten his orders. He had been ordered to wait on a siding at Knobster, just east of Warrensburg. but neglected to do so. The trains met at ,a sharp curve. f Travel tc the vsofId's Fair has been so heavy that ali roads recently have been sending out many of their trains in two or more sections. The train l wrecked today was made up at Wichita Sunday night and as is the custom, 1t picked up additional coaches along the line. The last coach taken up was at Pleasant Hill, Mo, at about o'clock this morning. All the coaches were crowded.
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 Both trains were running at a good rate of speed when the wreck occurred Dawn had hardly begun to break and neither crew were aware of the ap- proach of the other train, until they were almost upon each other. The im- pact of the collision was terrific The sleeping passengers were hurled in every direction. The most of the kill ed were in the forward coach.
 The spot where the wreck occurred was in a narrow cut and this fact with the darkness added to the difficulty of the situation. The greatest confusion ensued after the crash. It was some time before word was sent back to Warrensburg. and word of the wreck was spread. Relief trains carrying physicians were sent out as quickly as possible from surrounding towns and everything possible will be done to aid the injured.
 It was sometime before the dead and injured could be extricated from the debris. The dead were carried up the track and laid in rows in an open space until the relief train arrived while the injured were cared for as well as could be.
 It was a long time before the names of the victims could be secured and the nature of the injuries made known.
 The wrecked train was the second section of the Worlds Fair passenger train from Witchita for St. Louis Al the local offices of the Missouri Pacific no details had been received up to S.As It Is stated. however, that the wreck was serious one. The train had picked up coaches at Pleasant Hill and other points. and was filled with pas sengers.
 First Section Passes.
 The freight train was an extra Its crew had according to the conductor of this train been instructed to take A siding and let the passenger train pass. The first section of the passen- ger train had gone by when the freight pulled out. The passenger train bore no signal of the section to come. he as . serts, and he had no reason to believe that another train was due.
 The scene of the wreck was on a down grade on either side of which there was a steep rise. Both trains had put on extra steam to carry them to the opposite hill and when they met at the curve at the lowest point. they were running at a high rate.
 The passenger train was made up of three coaches and Pullman, with no baggage car, the front coach being
 
 was a heavy one. When the trains met the heavy freight pushed the paa- senger engine into the first coach. The tender of the passenger engine literal ly cut the coach In two and never stop- ped until 1t had plowed itself half way through the car and It's passengers. killing those in the forward end in- l stantiy. and manglIng all within reach.
 Awful Scenes.
 Half dozen who were not killed outright were SO badly injured that 1 they died before they could be removed from the debris. Many Of the dead were almost unrecogniEable. Arms and legs were dismembered in several cases and together with baggage and pieces of wreckage were tumbled to- gether into a confused mass of bleed l ing human forms.
 1 The next two coaches were also bad | ly damaged, seats being torn up and windows smashed. but in these cars the passengers fared better. all except a | few escaping with slight injuries. The Pullman remained upright and none of its occupants was hurt beyond sus- | taining, a severe shaking up.