The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-10-14
Victims of Wreck Are Excursion.
lists on the Way to Visit the
Worlds Fair.
TRAINS MEET ON SHARP CURVE
Engineer of Freight Forgets His Or
ders and Fails to Stop Heavy
Train on Siding IN Order
to Let Passenger
Pass.


seven persons were killed and thirty
injured, some of them fatally, in a
head-on collision two miles and a half
east of Warrensburg, Mo-. between
the second section of Missouri Pacific
passenger train No. 80, which left
Wichita, Kan, for S.. Louis with
Worlds fair eXcursiOnists. and a heavy
westbound extra freight train. The
Dead Mems Bend" Both engineers
and both firemen saw the danger and
jumped
1t was some time before word was
sent back to Warensburg and word of
the wreck spread. Relief trains car
rying physicians were sent out as
quickly as possible from surrounding
towns and everything possible was
done to aid the injured
The Identified Dead.
The dead SO are identified are:
Mrs. w. J. Darst and son Gilbert,
aged II, Dexter, Kan; w. H. Allen
and two sons, Bird and Francis, Pitts
burg, Kan; Dorothy Greer, Pennsboro,
KY; J.. r. Bures, BrOnaugh, Mo-: Cal
Reed, Bronaugh, Mo-; Gertrude Loud,
Bronaugh, Mo-; Dizzy Ream, Bronough;
Addie Kane, Pittsburg, Kan; Nellie
and Dolly Sullivan, Cherryvale, Kan;
Hatty Kelley, Oxford, Kan; M. Lind
say, Oxford, Kan; Dosia Gregg,
Dronaugh, Mo-; Or. H. L. McIlheney,
Springman, Kan; G. A. Webrer, Foun-
tain, Pa; Clarence Herring, -,
Kan; - Sidel, head brakeman of
freight.
The seriously injured are: d. D.
Hale, Dexter, Kan, thigh broken;
Mrs. Hale, wife of above, leg and
body injured; Amelie England, Dexter,
limbs badly crushed; L. c. Dressed,
EatOnville, Kan, seriously injured; e.
d. Rossen, engineer passenger train,
badly scalded; - HOtOn. engineer of
freight train, seriously injured; Perry
M. Allen, Coffeyville, Kan, legs badly
crushed; Bit Tottman, Cedarville.
Kan, cut about body, injured internal
ly; Ruth Stewart Fourman, indie
pendence, Kan, seriously injured.
Tender PlOughs Through Coach.
The passenger train was made up
of three coaches and Pullman, with
a baggage car, the front coach being
next to the tender. The freight train
was a heavy one. When the ira ms
met the heavy freight train pushed the
passenger engine back into the first
coach. The tender of the passenger
engine literally cut the coach in two
in the center and never stopped until
it had ploughed itself half way through
the car and its passengers, killing
those in the forward end instantly
and mangling all within reach in
most horribly manner.
Half q dozen who were not killed
outright We're so terribly injured that
they died before they could be re-
moved from the debris. Many of the
dead were almost unacceptable.
Freight Engineer to Blame.
According to the local office 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 q siding at
Kuotnoster, just east Of Warrensburg,
but neglected to do so. The trains met
ct q sharp curve.
Travel to the Worlds fair has been
SO heavy that all roads recently have
been sending out many of their trains
in two or more sections. The train
wrecked, which was the second section
of No. 30 was made up at Wichita and
as is the custom it picked up addi-
tiOnal coaches along the line The
last coach taken up was at Pleasant
Hill, Mo-, at about o'clock in the
morning. All of the coaches We're
crowded
Impact Was Terrific.
Both trains were running at good
rate of speed when the wreck oc-
Cured. Dawn had hardly begun to
break and neither crew was aware of
the approach of the other train until
they were almost upon each other.
The impact of the collision was ter
rife. The sleeping passengers were
hurled in every direction. The most
of the killed were in the forward
coach which was we'll crowded with
passengers.
The spot where the wreck occurred
was in a narrow cut and this fact with
the darkness added to the difficulty of
the situa ton. The greatest confusion
ensued after the first lull following the
crash and the groans of the injured
were added to the escaping steam Of
the wrecked locomotives.
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