The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-10-13
SEVEN DIE
IN AWFUL Crash
WORLDS FAIR SPECIAL COL
LIDES WITH A FREIGHT
TRAIN IN MISSOURI.
MANY OTHERS INJURED,
SOME OF THEM FATALLY

MANY OTHERS INJURED,
SOME OF THEM FATALLY
The Collision Occurs at "Dead Mans
Bend" Near W~arrensburg Par
tial List of Dead.Conductor's Ex-
PLANTATION of Cause of Disaster.
Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. 11.-~Twenty-
seven persons were killed and so injured,
some of them fatally, in a head-end COLI
lision Monday two miles and a half
east of Warrensburg, Mo, between a
Missouri Pacific passenger train and a
heavy west-bound extra freight train.
The collision occurred in what is called
dead Mans Bend" Both engineers
and both firemen saw the danger and
jumped. 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
wrecked train was the second section
of No. 80, and was made up at Wichita
Sunday night, and, as is the custom, 1t
picked up additional coaches along the
line. The last coach taken up was at
Pleasant Hill, Mo. ALI of the coaches
were crowded.
Partial List Of Victims.
The following is the list of known
dead:
Mrs. w. j. Darst and son Gilbert,
aged IL, Dexter, Kan; w. H. Allen and
two sons, Bird and Francis, Pittsburg,
Kan; Dorothy Greer, Pennsboro, Mo-;
L. F. Bures, Bronaugh, Mo-; Cal. Reed,
Broneugh, Mo-; Gertrude Loud, Bron-
augh, Mo-; Dick Ream, Bronaugh, Mo-;
Annie Kane, Pittsburg, Kan; G. A
Weber, Fountain, Pa; Clarence Her,
ring, - Kan; - Sidel, head brake
man of freight; Nellie and Dolly Sulli-
van, Cherry Vale, Kan; Hatty Kelley
Oxford, Kan; M. Lindsay, Oxford
Kan; Dosia Gregg, Bronaugh, Mo-;
DR.. H. L. McIlheney, Springman, Kan
How Disaster Occurred. r.
The freight train was an extra Its
crew had, according to the story of the
conductor of this train, been instructed
to take a siding and let the passenger
train pass. The first section of the pas
senger train had gone by when the
freight pulled out. The passenger trair
bore no signal of second section to come
he asserts, and he had no reason to be.
lieve that another train was due. The
scene of the wreck was on the down.
grade, on either side of which there wa
a steep rise. Both trains had put OF
extra steam to carry them up the oppo'
site hill, and when they met at the curve
at the lowest point they were running
at a terrific rate.
The passenger train was made up O.
three coaches and a Pullman. with M
baggage car, the front coach being mex
to the tender. The freight train was {
heavy one. When the trains met thu
heavy freight train pushed the passen'
ger engine back into the first coach
The tender of the passenger engine lit
orally cut the coach in two in the cen
ter and never stopped until it had plowe(
itself half way through the car and it!
passengers. killing tuose in the forward
end instantly, and mangling all within
reach in a most horrible tanner.
Victims Terribly Mangled.
Half a dozen who were not killed out
right were Sc terribly injured that the,
died before they could be removed from
the debris. Many of the Gead were al
most unacceptable. Arms and legs
were dismembered in several cases and
together with baggage and pieces O.
wreckage, were tumbled together into
confused mass of bleeding human forms
The next two coaches were also badly
damaged, seats being torn up and win
dows smashed, but in these cars the
passengers Jared better, all except a few
escaping with slight injuries. The Pull
man remained upright and none of it:
occupants were hurt beyond sustaining
a sever shaking up.
So tightly were the tender of the pas
senger engine and the first coach wedget
together that it Will take unusual effort:
to separate them. Monday the engin.
stood backed into the coach, the from
end of which rears above it, the clothins
of some of the victims clinging to it
Jagged ends and blood spattered over it
a CHASTITY monument to the dead.
The train crew, with the exception O
Brakeman Sidel, escaped m~iraculously
the engineers and firemen sustainin,
only minor hurts.
1t was some time before word was sen
back to Warrensburg and word of tn,
wreck was spread. Relief trains carry
ing physicians were sent out as quickl,
as possible from surrounding towns an
everything possible was done to aid tn,
injured. The injured were taken tt
Sedalia and the dead to Warrensburg.
Convicted Of Manslaughter.
Yinita, I. T., Oct. led and Da,
Price, farmers, who killed Tom Qualls, {
noted desperate, were found guilty O