The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-15

MONDAY EV i
section men began work on the wreck
age at 5 o'clock and the track vas
open sunday afternoon The ira el-
embankment is eight feet high where
the wreck occurred
Nate" Hendricks, a Roswell n
NJ, cattleman, one of the Injured in
the smoker, weighs 22O pounds and
| because of his weight it was with
much trouble that he was extricated
from the wreck. Mr.. Hendricks is the
defendant in a famous murder case. at
Roswell He has been tried three
times each trial resulting in a hung
jury. He is now out under a $4,000
! bond.
wrecking case. It was found that sat
urday night three men We're seen near
the Howard branch section tool house
Some one entered the tool house and
took track wrench and a crOwbar.
The tools were found in pool of wa
ter near the wreck this morning The
spikes and nuts which had been re-
moved from the track were found
near the track
Passenger train No. IS, eastbound
passed over the switch twenty minutes
before the wreck occurred, and passed
NO IL at Lang, seven miles east of
EmpOria. This shows the train wreck
erse did their work between the trains.
I
1 1t was on a down grade. Thousands
OF persons visited the scene of the
wreck during the day and the officers
complained of loctng
Tools Were Stolen.
eve have found where the wreck
ers got the tools to do their dastardly
work said General Manager J. f.
| Hurley to a reporter for the State
Journal Doubtless they selected
saturday night as the best time to do
hara oil
had gone home to be away till Mon
day morning.
we found that the crowbar and
wrench We're stolen from the tool
mousse OF the Howard branch which di-
Nerges at Emporia Junction, near the
place where the accident occurred.
whoever did the work pried the staple
off the door of the tool house with
bolt They took a crowbar and
monkey wrench. We have found "a
ties which bear the marks of the
/ crowbar as it was used to pull the
spikes which held the rail.
The croWbar and wrench were thrown
IN pool of water beside the track af-
ter the work was done our section
/ foreman, who is in charge of the tool
/ house, has identified the tools as pro-
perty of the company
Il am OF the opinion that this deed
as well as the several other attempts
that have been made recently is the
work of some Of the strikers or their
/ sympathlzerS. We have had no trouble
with anyone else and they are the only
persons who can have a motive in do
/ ing such dastardly act
Doubtless the wreck Sunday morn
/ ing was planned to make it appear that
/ the engine left the track. so that it
/ would seem that the wreck was caused
( by defective motive power. If this was
/ the case, the plans miscarried because
4 the engine got over the rail safely and
/ staid on the track The weight of the
/ engine on the rail displaced it how
/ ever, and the following cars were de-
1 rallied
THE strikers continue to circulate
handbills with scare statements there
/ on calculated to intimidate persons into
/ refusing to travel on the Santa Fe. The
only way they can make it appear that
it is unsafe to ride on Santa Fe trains
is TO get out and wreck the trains
1 themselves.
srWhiIe they have it in for the Santa
F'e because they have lost out in their
strike, they should not go to such
1 lengths. They should not attempt to
sacrifice the lives of hundreds of inno-
cent and disinterested persons.
Detectives Are at Work
The secret service department of the
Santa Fe. aided by the Pinkerton SER
vice, is at work on the case, and the
officials seem to think they will be able
to locate the guilty parties. If they do
it viii go hard with them.
But a comparatively small number Of
strikers are left and it is thought that
it will not be difficult thing to find
the guilty ones, if they are strikers, by
a process of elimination.
Old Soldier Victim.
James Eauger, the old soldier who
died last night at the Santa F7e hospital
from injuries received in the wreck at
Emporia Sunday morning, was a
widower. He has a daughter living at
Kansas City from which point he was
travelling to western Kansas. His
daughter is in Topeka today to arrange
to take the body to Kansas City for
burial
J. d. NJ. Hamilton, claim attorney of
the Santa Fe, went to Emporia and re-
turned last night on the train which
brought the injured persons to the hos
pital at Topeka.
e.Only three of the injured people were
hurt bad enough to make it necessary
to bring them to the hospital" he said
Hendricks, the ranchman. and Con-
ductor Taylor are now at the hospital.
Thev. will recover. The other three who
We're injured went on to their destina-
tons