The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-09-09
DEATH PRESENT IN
ST. LOUIS COLLISION
Loaded Street Car Struck by
Fast Train Near the
Fair Grounds.
SEVEN WE'RE KILLED
Over Twenty-Five Passengers Wers
Injured-lt Is Claimed M%ctorman
Was Responsible for
Accident.
SEVEN WE'RE KILLED


ST. Louis, Mo-, Sept. s.-seven per-
sons were killed and nineteen were in
jured. two proably fatally and nine
worlds fair shuttle train wit6 a sub
urban electric car at the Sars6f street
crossing. There were tWenty-ffvE pas
sengers in the car. and none escaped
injury. The dead:
JOHN w. WILSON. Klrkwood, st.
Louis county, aged 20.
GEORGE w. MAJORS. aged 80. st.
Louis county.
st. Louis.
ANDREW MCKINLEY. 70 old.
st. Louis
NJ. B. BRISTOL. aged 60 years. Web
TWO UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN.
The fatally hurt:
N: B: Bristol, aged 50; Webster
and Internal injuries.
fractured.
Seriously injured:
Raymond Reisler, aged II, living in
st. Louis. right leg %lacerated and body
bruised.
Mrs. L. r. Wilson, st. Louis, body
bruised and cut in face.
Miss Mary Buddensick, st. Louis.
right leg broken.
G. E. shumacker. st. Louis. cut and
bruised about body.
county, left leg broken.
A.. B. Wilson. fireman. st. Louis.
slightly cured.
L.. r. Wilson, severe injuries.
Alfred Jennings, cut in face, and
body injured.
YoI,,, Gi1Iocpio Iv;rY,uooJ ca Y o,,r.
county, internally injured.
Crowds Of people visited the Morgues
in an endeavor to identify the bodies
of the dead aiken there. After tenn
porary assistance by physicians at the
ously hurt We're taken in ambulances
to the city hospital, while the Others
received attention at their h6snes. All
the victims except two, the physicians
say, will recover
Crowds at Morgue. M
The shuttle train was returning to
the union station from the worlds fair
grounds at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour. it is stated. The street
car. which was on it's way to the sub
urb with Il o. of people returning
home, stopped directly in front Of the.
engine and was cut in two, The trucks
Of the car were knocked leo feet away,
while part of it's roof was caEried 200
feet further by the train. Bottles OF the
dead and injured. with w%reekags. OF the
dismantled car. were scattered along
the track for that distance.
A. W.. Burbank, engineer of the shut
tie train, who blames the nrotorman of
the electric car for the accident. said: 4
st was within 100 yards OF, the. sub
urban crossing when I saw the suburb1
an car start across the TRACK. u
looked to me as If it a aTf1pfe time
to get across"
I'M, x,,o%ol,oo op1 {11 -
he crossing and some Of the passseni
gers confirm that the car started 8cfosd
the track II then stopped Where II
was struck. a
Car Wouldn't Move. ]
No satisfactory ~explanati@ qas been!
given why the car stoAPea RI EhEs mid
die of the track after It startt aErossl
Fred Utz. the gateman at the -cross-
ing. said:
my orders have been not to- use the
gates. although there are gates mere.
When the cal approached 7 saw It
and ran the crossing bell. The car,
stopped, the conductor went to the
front and then l saw the car start
again II stop in the middle of the
track. 1t seemed to be deadp'
Theodore Cook. the metormap, whose
shoulder was fractured, is held . pris-
oner at the city hospital, and the con-
ductor Of the suburban car, Patrick
Sheehan, has been arrested.
Conductor Sheehan said of the acct
dent:
The motorlnan slapped thezrar at
the crossing and I went aheadato see
If the way was clear. I saw the train
approaching. but h fagmun1 said:
Come on, hurry up; o can get
across" and as we a often got across
when a train was a good deA nearer
than that n was. I gave tie signal
for the motorman to come ahead. He
started ahead and I walked back
toward the rear of the car to swing
upon the rear platform as the car
passed me-. The car did not stop on the
crossing. It was going across Slowly
when 1t was struck"
At the office of the Wabash Railroad
company the following statement was
given to the Associated Press tbnight:
From what can be learned thus far
che Waterman stationed at the crossing
did all hat he could to stop the street
car from crossing the tracks, but it
proceeded until half way across the
~east-bound rails. when 1t stopped for
some unknown reason. 2'at
THE e instant the crash came and
debris was strewn about. 0ficials Of
our company hurried to the scent as
soon as the wreck was reported to us.
and at once began an investigation az
to who was responsible for the ac-
cident."
The crews Of both the Wabash train
and of the suburban car were arrested
and taken to the Eighth district police
station.