Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-08-11
MAI. WHITMAN KILLED.
Well Known Member of Twentieth
Kansas Among the Wreck vlc-
Tins at Eden, Col.

| fueDlO, COL, aug. S-Capt. FRANK
H.,Whitman, killed in the Eden wreck,
was on his way to his home in Lynn
don, Kan. to see his aged father. Prof.
j. S. Whitman, who is on his deathbed.
Capt Whitman graduated from West
Point in June, 1896. He was major In
the Twentieth Kansas regiment during
the Spanish war. After being mustered
out as volunteer he resumed his
place in the regular army, being pro-
NOTED to captain. His last station was
fort Logan, Col. After visiting with
his father he was going on to Man
assas, Va. where he was to act as UNI
pire in the eastern army maneuvers.
One Of the saddest stories is that of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gilbert, of Okla
homa City, Ok. who had been married
only two months and were on their
honeymoon trip. Gilbert is one of the
three men who marvelously escaped
from the chair car. His wife. who
was sitting beside him. was lost and,
although he Is unscathed. her death
has made him a nervous wreck. He
is now in the Pueblo hospital. He has
been wire chief of the Western Union
Telegraph company at Oklahoma City.
The Fountain river still rushes with
the impetus of the food and the arroyo
has clear, tiny stream trickling along
where the fatal mass Of water rushed
few hours before. The earth on
either side is swept clean by the flood.
The walls of the so-called Dry creek
are rugged, irregular, caving and
widcned, but still so narrow that 1t IL
almost impossible to understand how
the great coaches the baggage car and
tender could have swept so far with
out becoming lodged against the sides
Most of the bed of the creek is now
visible, with little streams weaving
about the strips Of sand. forming is
lands of mud and sand which are be-
ing searched for bodies that may lie
buried in them.
Identified dead: ]. F. Bishop. archi-
tect; Eta E. Bishop, George Beck,
Miss Bennell. Miss Bethel, H. Curtis,
Don Campbell, Miss Carrie Downing,
]. Enrich. Jesse Z. Gray. H. r.
Graves, Pueblo; Mrs. Garland. Den
Yer: ]. G. Galbraith, Pueblo: ]. G.
Graham, Florence, Col; A. E. Hoes,
Pueblo; Harry Hough, Denver; Will
In 4
Hopper, Pueblo Henry Human, en-.
gineer, Denver; Dorothy Johnson,
eight years old. Mrs. James Heating,
Ida Leonard, Mrs. Robert Linfoot, Miss
Stella Mcdonald, Max Morris, Pueblo;
r. o. Meats, Denver; Hugh McCracken,
Aurora, ILL.,; A. S. Maxwell, Miss Annie
Pine. Pueblo; Miss Mary Price. La.
Sale. H.; T. S. Rees. express messen.
ger Denver: Bud Seward. Miss Alice
Sturgeon. Miss Winnie Selby. Pueblo:
Miss Ellen Stevens, Northampton
Mass; Miss Lolita Shoup Grand |
Rapids, Mich. ]. II. Smith. conductor.
Denver: Mrs. Tillie Thompson. Pueblo; |
Joseph +. Turner. brakeman. Denver;
Miss Emily Wood. Miss Erne Wright |
Miss Nellie Williams. Miss Florence |
Walker, |. w. Wright. Maj. Frank H. |
formerly of the Twentieth !
Kansas volunteers; Mrs. a. L. Yeagla |
Pueblo; G. W. Geppert, ST. Louis; Ed
ward and Lillian Garland, children,
Denver; Miss Gertrude Boyle, Pueblo
AL Mosier. lliff. Col; Elsie Roland.
Kan; B. T. Lashell, Den
yer; Mrs. Parker. Pueblo.
Missing-Elsie Roland. Dr. W. F.
Mum. Mrs. John S. Moltier and two
Minnie Davis, Malcolm S.
Diggins. Frank Bodman, Mrs. H. 5.
V. r. Durham, Minnie Selby,
Sophie Gilchrist. James O'Bannon,
Miss Chancellor, Miss Boseman, Pueb-
10; Mrs. Mary Welch, Chicago: Miss
Salina, Kan; Clyde Price,
Aurora. H.; Margaret Donnelly. Mrs.
Henry Donnelly. Dr. z. C. Stimmel,
Ralph Swartscup. J. @. Thombas and
wife. Miss Marguerite Kelley, Pueblo;
DR.. James B. MacGregor, Ballard,
Wash; Harold B. Page, Denver; James
Paul Heating, two years old, Pueblo;
F. H. Messenger. Central City, Col.