The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-12-08
over TWO SCORE
HURT IN WRECK
Serious Accident on the Mis-.
souri, Pacific Caused by
Broken Rail.
FALL FROM a BRIDGE
Cars Plunge Down a Twenty-Five Foot
Embankment into the Bed of a
Creek-Many Badly
Injured.

Holden. Mo-, Dec. 6.-Missouri Pa
cific passenger train No. /. westbound
from st. Louis to Kansas City, was
wrecked at the waterworks bridge two
miles east of here, resulting in the in
jury of forty-tiye persons, several OF
whom were seriously hurt.
The accident was caused by q broken
rail which projected from the track.
catching the first coach behind he
mail car, throwing it from the track
down a twenty-foot embankment and
causing two other coaches, a Pullman
and the dinper, to follow it. The brok-
en- rail was on the bridge and the rear
Pullman rolled off the bridge into the
creek below and the passengers inside
were all seriously injured. TWO old
aides imprisoned in this car were talk
en- out at the top after holes had been
made with axes.
The engine, two baggage cars ana
the mail car passed the bridge in safe
ty and remained on the track. but all
the remainder of the train was de-
rallied.
The injured:
L. II. Hickman, state building and loan
commissioner Warrensburg, Mo-, back
Wallace Crossley, representative-elect
from Johnson county, Mo-, badly hurt:
p. l; Ferguson, county treasurer, Hol-
G. L. Mcdonald, warrensburg, badly
hurt.
NlES. u, i. II. lIdISe, SIcIlliu, ohlt.,
confusion on head.
Helen Trause, Cremlin, Okla, confusion
on head.
John Fowler. Clarksburg, knee sprained.
H. ClaXton, colored, st. Louis: will die.
Mr.. Eddy, Lincoln. Neb., hip sprained.
E. D.. Smith, st, Louis, head and face
hurt.
Mrs. Max Wolf. Kansas City, eye hurt
and neck badly hurt.
Mrs: John Eberhart, Kansas City, Mo,
shoulder and hand crushed.
Mrs. NJ, G. Pierce, and baby, hurt about
their heads.
W. X. Pierce, wife and daughter, Pueblo,
Colo, bruised, and Mrs. Pierce's hip seri-
ously injured.
Mrs. Tom Aotes, Warrensburg. head
Miss Ora McCord, Denver, head LAGER
ated.
f. P. Priest, Warrensburg, Mo-, neck
wrenched and body bruised.
Tom Barrett, Barrett, Kan., head cut.
Ct. A. Landes, Warrenshurg, Mo, head
cut and bruised.
Mrs. Gillett, New York, aged 70 years.,
Mrs. J.. F. Hrubesky, Pueblo. and four
small sons, all bruised about ilcacs ana
Miss Minnie Gillett. New York, body
bruised.
Fl. A. Mosher. Warrensburg, scalp LAGER
ated.
James Butler, Holden. Mo-, leg injured.
John Ross, Jefferson City, Mo, head cut.
Mrs. George Wells, Salt Lake City, leg
William Jamison. Trinidad, Colo, head
injured.
w. A. Mcbride, Warrensburg, Mo-, leg
Sprained.
Albert Thomas, st. Louis, serious.
NJ. ]. Payne, st. Louis, Pullman con-
ductor, ribs broken and knee fractured.
Mrs. William Jamison, Trinidad, Colo,
cellar bone broken.
Miss Lorena Dollique, Wichita, KAN, eye
destroyed.
n. Frankel, Kansas City, head badly
cut.
A. E. Cartwright, Louisville, KY, limbs
badly cut.
George Austin, Warrensburg, shoulder
broken.
Kansas City, Dec. ga relief train
which went from here to the scene of
the wreck returned bringing many of
the injured to the Missouri Pacific hos
The wreck occurred fourteen miles
west of Deadman's curve, near War
r%ensburg, Mo-, where the worst wreck
], in the history of the Missouri Pacific
) railroad happened last October, when
thirty persons lost their lives.
Supposition has it that orders We're
) given the train crew at Centerville to-
day to slow up at the Waterworks
: bridge on account of a broken raj
l there. 1t SENS that the train was be,
: hind the scheduled time, n this order
, was not needed. When the, heavy pas,
. senger train, running at a high rate o!
: speed, struck this bridge, striking tbs
e broken rail. which turned and projected
upwards, there was a tremendous crasf
E and three coaches, diner and sleeper
were hurled dow an
: twenty feet high, and the last ca
was thrown into a stream OF water
{ carving the bridge with 1T.