The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-31
(By the Associated Press. }

Kansas City Mo, Oct 30.-At least
twelve persons were killed and twen-
ty-five others injured today in the
trains on the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway, California Limited
No. 1, which left Chicago at 10
o'clock last night for the far West.
The train was ditched one mile east
of Sheffield, Mo-, six miles from the
business center of Kansas City.
The wreck occurred in cut while
the train was running at the rate of
so miles an hour and was caused by
spreading rails
The train was made up of vesti-
buled cars. and while the vestibules
prevented teleScoping in a measure.
the speed of the train was so great
that it caused several of the cars to
pile up on top of each other, tearing
out the connections. The wreckage was
piled high and under it scores of pas
sengers and members of the crew
were buried.
Relief trains carrying many physic-
ianS were sent out from Kansas City
shortly before noon and preparations
made to bring the dead and injured
to Kansas City.
List of Dead and Injured.
The dead:
Rudolph Richardson, negro dining
car waiter.
John MacGregOr, Fort Madison, Ia.
John L. Caps, Chicago, express mes
senger.
Roy Stafford, 1O9 Hayden avenue.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Lee ID. Montgomery, Linneus, Mo-,
carried letter of introduction to post
master at ST Joseph, Mo.
Michael Schneider, Chicago.
ROmatisiO Pecco, Italian.
PrOmOvio Rocco, Italian.
Crl Emil loren, 254 st. Marks
avenue, Brooklyn.
Adrian Peatteut, boy from Northing.
Switzerland.
Williamson Harrison. colored. por-
ter Chicago.
Joseph Seymour, Richmond, Mo.
The injured include
Joseph Rembart, Buffalo, n. Y, leg
crushed, arm hurt.
George Klaes, Buffalo, n. Y,
bruised and cut.
Joseph Seymour, one of the killed.
was the cashier of the Ray County
Savings Bank at Richmond. Mo.
John MacGregor, another of the
killed, was an engineer on the Santa
Fe, who had been transferred to one
OL the WeSIeTH ulNlSlOIlS Oh the ROAD
and was on his way to Topeka to take
his new run.
Most of the injured were in the
smoker.
The train consisted OF one mail car,
one baggage car, one coach, one chair
car, four tourists sleeping cars. two
standard Pullmans and one dining
car. The passenger list was composed
largely of oNlon/ alton tourists.
Nearly all the sleeping cars re-
mained on the track and the forward
cars bore the brunt of the shock.
None of the passengers in the sleeping
cars was hurt. The day coach in
front of the chair car furnished the
greatest number of killed and in
jured
The grOlt natural wall of rough
stone into which the cars We're thrown.
tore the sides off the day coaches. and
passengers were ground against the
wall and each killed or badly injured.
One of the first bodies removed was
that of the dining car porter Ran-
dolph Richardson. When killed he
was passing through one of the rear
cars and had just made the anounce-
ment:
Last call for breakfast"
Foot Roasted i'm Stove.
j. d. Whitemore, one of the in
jured, was in the smoker which had
an old-fashioned coal stove heater.
He was thrown in such way that
one leg was jammed into the broken
stove in contact with the live Goals
He was so covered with debris that
ba could not ont and bic foot ,xas