The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-05
TRAIN is DITCHED.
GaskilI Shows Have Trouble
Getting Into Topeka.
Five aplOyes Are More or Less
Injured.
WILL OPEN ON TIME.
The Wor3men Are Busy Putting
p Tents.
First 2 fnsace to Be Given
EOnight.

The Gaskil Carnival train was wreck
ed at Atchison sunday morning at II
o'clock. Five people were injured. Three
cars carrying sideshows were thrown
into the ditch.
The injured:
Henry wits, ticket seller, head
wounds and internal injuries; taken to
Santa Fe hospital
Jack Keith, property man. bruises on
face and arms, back hurt; taken to San
ia Fe hospital
Harry Treeter. canvas mag ear cut
and head bruises.
Chester w. Estes, Louisiana, Mo, face
badly bruised.
Unknown negro. head cut.
The wreck was caused by a broken
frog in the crossing Of the Union Pa
cific and Santa F'e tracks. The special
train carrying the Gaskill company was
just leaving Atchison. bound for To-
peka. A speed OF not more than miles
an hour had been attained.
The show train was on the Santa
Fe tracks and contained SSs cars. The
train was made up in two sections, the
property cars and the sleeping Pull
mans. The engine, tender and four
of the first cars of the train got over
the broken frog all right, but the fifth
car Jumped the track and followed by
the next two dashed down over a ten
foot enbanknent. Strange to say, the
/ following cars remained on the track
and were not injured in the least.
The men who were hurt were IN the
| wrecked part OF the train. Wits, the
most seriously injured, was in the first
car which left the track. He was in
side a ticket wagon arranging some or
his work. When taken out OF the
-ssl4rc ait
was in the third car which left the
track He was sitting on a chair also
/ at work He was buried under mass
of Wreckage Of smashed property. The
and if was at first thought that ne
was very seriously hurt.
Estes and the colored man did not
belong to the show. After the negro
/ wound was patched, according to the
story told by the show people, the
| railway company gave him IS for a
IreIease. fsSartinly,' he is said to nave
answered, f'sartinly. Use willin's to
took another chance almost 1mmed1-
lately foF five doIlahs.
IT was almost midnight Sunday
night before the wreckage was cleared
up and the train brought to Topeka.
It arrived here this morning at .
/ o'clock The injured were placed IN
the PuIlnans and cared for by physl-
clans who had been sent out on the
| wreeking train from Topeka. The nrst
report here yesterday was that the
| accident was very serious. Had the
train been going at high rate OF
speed, the casualty and damage list
would doubtlessly have run up very
high.
The Gaskin show itself was little
damaged, strange to say, although the
| wrecked cars all carried side shows.
But one of the latter was completely
demolished, and that was 'The House
Up Side Down. a peculiar coincidence
in names and facts. Not enough of
this attraction was found to recognize
what it had been. All of its parapher-
MALTA was also destroyed, which means
that it will not be put on here at all
during this weeks exhibitions.
The wagon of the Bohemian Glass
Blowers was also badly damaged but
their property was in another car and
was not ruined. Carpenters at once
went to work this morning to repair
this wagon, and the attraction will be
on Tuesday afternoon and the remain
der of the week.
The Pala de Ia Morte wagon was
also badly damaged. In fact it was
injured so badly that another house
will. have to be arranged for the show
here this week. But the properties
were in another car, and escaped
without injury.
One wagon of the Ping Pong girls
was also smashed. But there are three
| other wagons to this show, and thew
will be sufficiently large to put on the
performance without alteration or cut
ting down.
This was all the injury that the show
suffered, and consequently Topeka will
see this famous carnival company,
practically intact from tonight on
Though the train was expected in To-
peka on Sunday noon, but did not ar
, rive until this morning, redoubIed ener-
gies were exercised today to get up all
the canvas and wagons and have the
/ show IN fert74
o'clock.
j. Tunis Osbourn, manager of con
I struction, between attempts to get his
, breath in his strenuous efforts to get
everything into place, said: I'VE will
swing open our gates promptly at z
{, clock tonight. Everything will be in
readiness by that time. We are put
ting on extra men and extra help. The
people of Topeka can come to night
and see everything which we put on
| anywhere with the exception of one
show The House Up Side Down,
which was smashed into kindIing wood
at the wreck yesterday.
I'VE got out Of that lucky, suffering
little or no damage. Had the train
, been going at a high rate of speed it
, would have all been up with US Two
or three of the other side shows were
, damaged and injured but none OF
them bad enough to put them out OF
commission. The Bohemian Glass
Blowers will be at work by Tuesday
afternoon just the same as if nothing
had ever happened. So tonight. The
House Up Side Down and the Glass
Blowers will be the only shows not
put on as advertised"
After this little interview, Mr. Os-
bourn rushed about to place some more
OF the wagons, which were being hauled
up from the Santa Fe yards. The big
elephant Queen Liz was employed to
help out in the heavy pulling stunts.
and she was better than two or three
dynamo engines.