The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-31
W. ]. BLACK HURT.

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to bed at once and will allow no one to
talk to him about the accident"
| Mr.. ManSpeaker has some of the
small bones of the left hand broken.
His left knee and his left foot are bad
ly injured and he was badly hurt about
the head. He took a sleeping potion
and yesterday afternoon and last night
the doctor kept ice about his head. He
did not rest we'll until about midnight
when he got to sleep and rested well
the remainder of the night.
1 Mr.. Manspeaker had with him on the
trip new heavy leather grip. The
grip was torn and broken and almost
completely ripped to pieces.
| MIR. Troutman's Story.
| James Troutman was in the berth
next to the one occupied by w. W.
Manspeaker in the wrecked Pullman
| car. Mr.. ManSpeaxer was in lower
eight, Mr.. Troutman in lower six and
Mr.. Tom Richardson was in lower four.
OF the three Mr.. Manspeaker was near
est the end of the Pullman car struck
/ by the engine of the second section of
the train. Mr.. Manspeaker was thrown
| 70 feet from the car into a pool of wa
ter outside the right of way of the rail-
road. Mr.. Troutman found himself
about twenty-five feet from the track
in the center Of a little space which
seemed to be clear of debris. He was
covered with shreds of the cloth of
some pillows ana IeatherS.
A reporter for the State Journal
found Mr.. Troutman at his home in
Potwin last evening.
Yes he said, at was a close call.
It was about the narrowest escape from
death I believe I ever had. 1t seems
that when 1 was thrown from the car
1 landed in a little clear space which
seemed to be reserved for me-
Mr.. Troutman was inclined to look
| upon the accident from different
standpoint than he did when it hap
pened. Last night he remembered
many of the incidents which he gave
no heed to at the time of the accident
The first person / saw after the ac-
cideQt," said Mr.. Troutman, was Mr..
Manspeaker- 1t seems that the roof of
the car war torn off bodily and thrown
about fifty feet from the track. I was
between the track and the roof of the
car. Mr.. ManSpeaker was thrown
away beyond the rocS, and soon after
came to my senses so that could real
ize what had happened 1 saw Mr.
Manspeaker crawling up the bank out
it was. He climbed up over the roof of
the car and about that time 7 discov-
cred Tom Richardson.
'I did not know that the Blacks
were on the train until quite a while
after the accident happened. I had
got onto the train just fore leaving
time at ST. Louis and I was tired and
went to sleep at once. 1 knew that
the train, but I did not know when I
went to sleep that the Blacks were on
the car.
1.-The man in the berth opposite me
in No. was killed. In fact all three
of the persons who were killed were
on the right side of the car.
most people said there seemed to
be two distinct shocks or reports, but
I only heard one crash. The engine
which ran into the Pullman car was
a IrnoSf covered with blankets feathers
and pillows.
1T seems miraculous to me that the
Blacks escaped with such injuries
as they did. They were in the drawing
room and the windows of the drawing
room faced on the right hand side of
the car. They were thrown out to the
ground on the opposite side of the
track from me. What makes their
the fact that those who were killed
and injured the worst were on the
same side of the car that they were.
And the fact that they were in the
end of the car nearest the engine
when 1t struck the car makes 1t seem
that the danger would have been
doubly great
I helped to get Mrs. Black on a
stretcher or cot and we carried her to
one of the other cars where she was
given medical attention at once. She
sustained several severe bruises and
cuts. Her nose seemed to be broken or
DIulS6Q
Mr.. Black had q bad cut over his
left eye and also another bad cut I'M
der his chin or jaw on the left side. He
went up to the hotel at Upton where
the doctors took some stitches in the
cuts. While he was bruised up pretty
bad he was able to get around and he
stayed with Mrs. Black while she was
being attended to by the doctors.
1.-The situation had it's amusing side.
1t was with great difficulty that we
found our various articles of wearing
apparel. Manspeaker, Richardson and
myself hunted about in the debris and
when either of us found some of our
we would each claim the az
ticles. 1 finally found nearly every
thing of mine.
Just before the train started to leave
Upton, ]. H. Lyon, general western
agent of the Missouri Pacific who hap
pened to be on the train, came running
up with Mr.. Blacks vest containing
his gold watch and his pocket book and
money which he had found in the pool
of water rs feet from the track where
Mr.. Manspeaker had landed