The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-07
WRECKED
Union Pacific Overland Crashed
Into a Freight.
Nine Persons We're Killed and
Nineteen Injured.
ENGINES DEMOLISHED.
Three Cars Burned and Several
Bodies Ineinerated.
Crew of Freight Train Failed to
Obey Orders.
DEMOLISHED

Omaha, Neb., Dec. Mime persons
were killed and eleven train employees
and eight passengers were injured in
a wreck of overland limited passenger
train No. on the Union Pacific five
miles west Of Rock Springs, Wyo.,
just before 2 o'clock this morning
The limited was run into head-on by
a freight train and both engines were
demolished and the baggage car, mail
car and dining car on the limited were
burned up. Several bodies of the dead
were incinerated.
The Dead.
FIRST COOK JAMES BUsBEE,
SECOND COOK ED RosENBAUM
Oakland, Cal
FOURTH COOK JOHN LAWSON.
Omaha.
TWO MAIL CLERKS. names not
ELECTRICIAN sTIGERs AND AS
SISTANT ENGINEER BRINK of
Rawlins.
BRAKEMAN SMITH of Rawlins.
Employees Injured.
T. J. Smith, waiter; Oakland, Cal.
r. S. Mitchell, waiter; Oakland, Cal.
w. D. Parker, WAITER Omaha.
Ed Hart, waiter; Omaha.
cisco.
F. A. Wheeler, dining car conductor.
Andy Jordan. engineer.
A l. Williams, porter; Chicago.
Oscar Peterson, fireman.
J. F. Alters, fireman; leg broken.
Shaffer, mail clerk; skull
fractured.
Passengers Injured:
One man would not give name.
j. C. Hopper, Salt Lake, sprained
M. c. Mccoy. Kansas City. slightly
Mrs A. c. Bicknen, Oakland. Cal.
slightly injured.
Miss Edna Lizzack, San Francisco,
slight injuries.
Mrs. Maud Riley, San Francisco,
confusion of right knee and wrist.
Mrs. G. Cook, San Francisco, bruises
on both knees.
s. M. Hullet, San Branoisco, leg con-
fused and hand slightly cut by glass
The three dead cooks are all white
men and the walters were coIored.
An extra freight train was given an
order before it left Rock Springs to
meet four eastbound passenger trains.
of which the Overland limited was the
last one, at All Say, siding five miles
west OF Rock Springs. The freight
took the siding at All Say and waited
until three of these trains had passed
east and then pulled out. When a
mile and a half west of All Saw the
freight met the limited and crashed
into it head on.
Both engines were demolished and
the first three cars of the limited i'm
mediately caught fire and were entirely
destroyed.
Engineer Brink of the freight train.
who it is stated officially, was responsi-
bic for overrunning his orders, was one
of the killed. Several trains had been
badly delayed at Granger with the re-
suit that the four passenger trains were
running close to each other. The freight
had received positive orders to meet all
four Of these trains at All Say and the
officials say that the orders were either
misunderstood or misread.
Relief trains with wrecking cars and
a large number of physicians were i'm
mediately dispatched from Rock Springs
and Granger and are now at the scene
Of the wreck.
The Wyoming state hospital located
near Rock Springs was convenient to
the point where the wreck occurred and
to this institution the injured were re-
moved and made comfortable. without
great delay. The extent of the injuries
of those caught in the forward cars has
not been definitely learned, but it is be-
lieved none Of them will prove fatal, al
though several were seriously hurt.
The relief trains arrived at the scene
of the wreck early this morning, but
the injured had been removed before they
arrived. A temporary track was con-
structed around the wreck and traffic
was not seriously delayed.