Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-07-08
wreck At Ellis Yards.


the vicinity of Ellis occurred abou,
2;20 Thursday morning when trait
lOl crashed into caboose in the Eli.
yards, killing Engineer Kinney an6
two harvest hands and injuring two
or three Others. None of the passen
gers were seriously injured. The en-
gine's tender jumped the track and
the mail car was piled on top of the
tender, the baggage and passenger
cars remaining on the track.
The first intimation of the accident
was a resembling crash like the re-
port OF cannon, which woke up our
citizens living in the eastern part of
the town, and it was soon seen by
lights running to and fro that some
thing had happened to the train, and
the cries of the injured could be
heard
Inc railroad men and citizens
promptly hurried to the scene. En-
glneer Kinney was found lying in the
middle of the track evidently having
been instantly killed, his neck being
broken and had been knocked or roll
ed from the cab. One man named
John Rath, of st. Paul, Mimi, was
Instantly killed. o. F. Stanly. of
Texarkana, had both legs cut off and
was taken TO the fremont Hotel
where he died in about half an hour.
1t is probable the first intimation
that Engineer Kinney had of danger
was just as he rounded the curve into
the yards when he saw the caboose on
The tr1nk n
MIN. He yelled to Fireman Golladav
10 jump, and shut off steam and an
piied the air. The right side of the
engine was completely stripped, and
after running about so feet the en-
CINE broke away from the tender and
started up the track, and by the time |
IL got in front of the Ellis House Fire |
man Golladay had recovered sufficient
y TO stop the engine, and as he stag
1ereo from the wrecked engine he in
formed Engineer Pearson, who was
'eady to take the train west, that
'hey had RIM into a baggage car and
hat Joe was gone.
10 show what a person will do when
excited, a young fellow with blood
down his face was actively I:
in searching the wreck for
us hat 1t transpired that he was a :
Dung fellow from BurlIngame named :
amlson who had been riding on the
enner or the engine when it was :
All that he remembered
fas the crash and he felt the tender :
DING over and jumped off escaping 8
nth severe bruises in the face. while 3
is companions on the blind baggage
'ere killed 5
The coroner's jury brought in a YER 3
let to the effect that the death of 3
-lnney and others came from COLI 3
on with d cabooSe 2,
Hon Isaac Purcell. of Wa-Keenev, G
as passenger on the train. He was 3
sleep in one of the Pullmans. and 4e
US ne was under tine impression that :,
lie train was switching and had been g
ddenly stopped &
1t is said the accident was caused -
the backing of an extra freight A
ain on the main track. An extra
eight had been made I'D to 90 west
ID the hostler had coupled on to the
am ana In order to coal was obliged
back the train until he could get :,
e engine under the coal chute and 7
pposed the engine was in the clear -
The mail clerks had a narrow es- st,
pc. The side of the car was slowed III
and the car swung clear off the ,
lex and piled on top of the tender. St;
outside of being badly shook I'D ma
ey escaped without injury. 1
after all, what a little thing the
'tiny of our life hangs. But for IO4
ng late Wednesday, Engineer
Ields would have been on the in in,
ed train instead of Engineer Kin "a
/, no
v, to
he bodies were taken to Mulyey,s ca.
fertakjng rooms and Thursday af- ha
noon the bodies of the unfortunate II
angers were buried in Mt. Hone Nhe
letery. {
his is Fireman Golladay's third es- ha:
e from death. and he is inclined the
think he has had enough.-Ellis pie
ldlight. gro
of
Marquette man who went tbro' no
tornado has made chute from -
cham her window r. Ia,