Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-31
Westbound Limited is Derailsd in 8 Out
Near Kansas City
THIRTEEN PASSENGERS ARE KILLED
Thirty Persons Injured, Some Of WHOM
Will Probably Die.
DUE TO SPREADING OF THE RAILS
Locomotive Passes Safely Over Break, bat
Cara Are Piled High.
RAIN HluDERs THE WORK or RELIEF
Injured Are Given Emergency Treat
ment and Then Are Taken TO
Hospitals In kansas
CHtw

KANSAS CITY. Mo, oct. sO.-Thirteen
. persons we're killed and thirty injured in
the wreck today Of the Atchison. Topeka
g. Santa &c passenger train No /. known
as the California Express, which. while
running al the rate of thirtyfvc allies an
hour, struck a loose rail, ditching five cars,
one mile east Of Blue river. which is the
eastern limit OF this city. The train.
which left Chicago at 10 o'clock last night
ard was due here at 1890 this morning,
is O. through train running between CHI
cage and san Francisco. II was running
at n higher speed than usual today. being
ten or fifteen minutes behind its schedule.
The wreck occurred at what railroad men
call the Rock creek cut on a curve,
where Jagged rock walls on each side of
the track form blum almost 100 feet high
The engine going rapidly that II
passed the loose ratl in safety. The mail
car. Immediately behind jumped the track
AND struck the side Of the blur 20 the right
and the four cars following pioughod
through it and shot against the high stone
wall at the left. The sides Of the COACHES
were torn of by scraping against the rough
stone surface and passengers and trainmcn
ground against the wall were either killed
outright or badly hurt. The cars which
left the track were mail car, baggage
and express car, the smoking car, chair
car and tourist sleeping car. Three tourist
sleepers, two standard Pullmans and the
dining car remained on the track.
The smoking car split the baggage car
ahead of it just below the floor line. and
the baggage car when it stopped
top of what was left of the smoking car.
The other derailed cars were jammed
against the rocks OF the bluff, except the
spllntered fragments of the smoker.
None OF the passengers in the cars which
remained on the track were hurt.
work of Relief.
Relief trains with physicians and sur
geons left this city for the scene of the
wreck as soon as possible. Pending the
arrival of the relief trains the able bodied
passengers and trainmen did all they could
TO care for the dead and alleviate the dis
= tress Of the injured. Their efforts We're
handicapped by a cold rain which fell
steadily and added 10 the gloom Of the
situation. The passengers worked heroic
ally under difficulties. and when the doc
tors arrived most OF the dead and injured
had been taken out of the wreckage. In
many instances 1t was necessary to dig
under the debris 20 extricate the unfor-
tunate victims. One man in the smoker
had been pinioned against a hot stove
with one foot in the stove, suffering untold
agony as his foot was slowly burned by
live Goals. This was one OF the many
agonizing scenes witnessed by the rescuers.
The injured were given emergency treat
ment at the scene of the wreck and later
brought TO hospitals in this city, where it
is reported tonight that all will recover.
The dead were taken In charge by the
county coroner and brought TO local
morgues.
IIst Of
ROYAL STAFFORD, Hayden avenue,
CiexSIan1' ytE az NVyoDrrcoNrrpv r,nn.,,s A..
JAMES SEYMOUR Of Richmond. No.
,,JoHN MGREqGoR' Santa Fe engineer.
MAX scHNEiDER Of New York.
J. F. CAPPS, baggageman. OF Chicago.
St. Marks street. Brooklyn, N Y
], W. WHITTEMoRE Carrolton. Mo
R0MAsTlslo PECCl' Immigrant from
PoMoRIo ROCCO. immigrant. from Ma
LUTHER RICHARDSON. cOlO.ed waiter.
Y WILLIAM HARRISON. eOlOred porter.
ADRIAN PATTEUT, immigrant. from
Northing. Switzerland
The injured;
B. F. Galley. 4sOs Prairie avenue, Chicago
Fl. A. Tegardne. $3.50 Ohio street. Chi.
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Archie Carter Richmond No news
agent, leg crushed arm broken.
M Rillian LaHarpe. Kan, leg broken
Aaron Berkason l5l Maxwell street, Chit
y cago, grocer. slightly hurt.
Ralph Skinner. LaHarpe, Kan, leg bro
Ralph Relnhardt 80 sherman street Buf
falo, n. Y, leg crushed
]. ". Bishop OF Chicago, hosting engin,
eer ieti leg broken bruised about the heat
Campbell Grant, Retford, England, on III,
Cal. head and chest crushed, probabIS
hurt internally; condition serious
7; \. seeley. Richmond. Mo, internal in
r. c. Curtis. Chicago. both legs broken
John Fields. Chicago. cuts on head and
Wiiliam Burrows. New York. cuts an,
Thomas Garvin, Canton. o.. severely Gu
A. @. Bernhard Of Kansas City. mai
clerk, severely bruised
Make Donald. Sweden cuts on head an,
a. r. Nelson. Chicago, cuts on head
John sander OF Chicago. cuts on body an,
j. F. Harris of Chicago. cuts and bruises
Rose panielson Of Kansas City. bod,
J. +. Davis. mail clerk. Chicago. bacl
Charles Crawford Of Atchison. Kan
scalp wounds bruises.
Walter +. Bloom, mail clerk. Lockport
T. ". Bashore, mail clerk, 655s Sagamor
avenue, Chicago, head and hips bruised.
George klaes. iron moulder, Buffalo arr
broken.
Edward Meyer Of Anderson. Ind. bruise
on head and body.
G. a. Sandine, immigrant from Swede
TO California, badly bruised.
swedish woman who cannot speak Ems
Hsh. badly hurt.
John Brown OF Chicago. leg crushed.
J. r. May OF Leavenworth, Kan. cuts o
head
w 8 vertrus Of Kansas City. badl
bruised.
William Novertskl Of Montreal Canad'
cuts on head.
" S, veTns-. Pullman m. cuts on hea
and body.
Victims Take ~ Kansas City.
The dead and injured W. esrsaSSht 10 IN
city with the uninjured passens e in a
cars which remained on the track and n