The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-10-10
lsuNDERsTANDlNe OF Or
DERS HURLS MANY INNOCENT
PEOPLE DEATH.
81 AZ DEAD AND DYING PRESENT
ED$A@M MOST PITiAeLE
SPECTACLE.
THE coLLlDlNG ENGINES WERE
REDUCED TO PILES OF
.WRECkAGE.
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(By Publishers Press.)
sWARRENSBURG, Mo, Oct. 10
#ETwenty-seven people are already
dead, several are dying and thirty-hve
# are INJURED as the result of the col
lision between the second section OF
the Missouri Pacific Worlds Fair
special and a west bound extra freight
one mile east of here at 4:10 o'clock
this morning. The freight. was un-
der orders to await the passing of the
passenger at Montserrat. Section one
of the express Went through, burn
sing the customary red lights, it is
said, to indicate that another section
was coming, but. through some misun-
derstanding Of orders, the freight pull
ed out and ran head-on into the pas
senger.
This train. speeding along at forty
miIes$an hour, over a perfect piece of
straight track, consisted of three
coaches and a caboose, and every car
was filed to the limit.
There was no baggage car, and
when the freight engine demolished
the passenger locomotive, it plough
sed over the wreckage and three
sfourths of the way through the first
coach.
53 Nearly all of the dead and fatally
injured were in this car. AS soon as
the accident occurred trainman ran
back to Warrensburg and sounded
general alarm. Doctors all along the
road We're notified from Warrensburg
and from rural telephones in farm
houses near the wreck.
s%6 Two relief trains were out from Sc
dalia, twenty-five miles west, and
wrecEer was also dispatched from
there. News: Of the wreck spread rap
idly, and by seven o'clock, it is esti-
mated that five thousand people were
on the scene. The dead and injured,
some terribly mangled, ley on both
sides of. the track, and the injured
were rending the air with screams
and groans.
5E5 Two men with their heads crush
ed beyond recognition, lay along on
the end of one row, and the other end
was formed by the corpses of five lit
tie boys. Waiting women who had es-
capped, wandered up and down the
rows of dead and injured seeking for
loved ones. Many We're hysteric, and
arriving surgeons found it necessary
TO administer drugs to them to quiet
them.
OF wrecRage, and the first coach and /,
three freight cars to splinters and
twisted iron.
#s IN the second and third coaches,
every bit Of glass was broken and
many of the seats were wrenched
loose. The sleeper at the end of the
train was not damaged much The
crew Of the freight jumped and es-
capped mortal injury. The crew on the
passenger engine was not able to
make its escape. John N. Preston,
conductor Of the freight, Jefferson
City, Mo, was badly hurt; John Hor-
on, engineer, is suffering from shock
md wrenched legs;3 E. G. Dawson,
fireman, broke his leg.
e. The head brakeman, Siedl, Jeffer
son City, was injured.
On the passenger train, Conductor
=. Barnes, escaped
+ Ed Dawson, is probably fatally
;calded and manned; Fireman Young
s believed to be hurt beyond recov-
sry.
Mrs w. n. Allen was travelling with
ier8 husband, cashier of the Western
lining Company, OF Pittsburg.
Most of the victims came from
Southeastern Kansas towns, Cherry
1ale, Pittsburg, Independence and
Dexter.
Partial List of the Dead.
w. DEARsT and son, Dexter, !:
Kansas.
w H ALLEN. Pittsburgh; Kansas,
md two sons, Barrett and Marion.