The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31
LOOSE RAIL
 KILLS MANY Wreck of Express Train
 on Santa Fe. 13 ARE DEAD; 30 INJURED Scenes of Horror Follow Rail-
 road Accident. One Mans Foot fastened In stove, Slowly Roa.ts wsie the Victim is Poweriess to Extricate
 Himself.

Kansas City. Mo, Oct. 30.--Thirteen persons were killed and thirty injured in a. wreck today cf the Atchison. To- peka and santa Fe passenger No. l, known as the Califbrnia Express, which running at thirtylf Ave miles an hour struck a loose ran. ditching live cars one mile east of Bi@e River. which Is the eastern limits of this city.
 The train which left Chicago at 10 o'clock last night and was due here at 10:30 this morning Is a through train running between Chicago and San Fran cisco It was running at higher speed than usual today. being ten or fifteen minutes behind schedule. The wreck occurred at what the railroad men call Rock Creek Cut Pin a cut where jagged rocks wall each side of the track from a blum almost hundred feet high.
 The engine was going so rapidly that 1t passed the loose rail in safety, the mail car immediately behind jumped the track and struck the side of the blum to the right and the four cars follow ing ploughed through 1t and shot against the high stone wall at the left side. &t
 The sides of the coaches were torn off by scraping against the rough stone surface, and passengers and trainmen ground against the wall were either killei outright or badly hurt.
 Cars Left the Track.
 The cars which left the tracks were a mail car. baggage and express car. the smoking car. the chair car and a tourists sleeping ear Three tourists sleepers, two standard Pulimans and the dining car remainsd on the track.
 None of the passengers in the cars which remained OR the track were hurt.
 Relief trains with physicians and sur geons left this city fer the scene of the wreck as soon as possible.
 Pending the arrival of the relief trains. the able-bodisd passengers and trainmen did all they could to care for the dead and aid tie distress of, the injured, and when tie doctors arrived most of the dead and injured had been taken out of the wredkage.
 In many instances st was necessary to 1ig under debrisstb sxtricate the un- fortuftatc victims t,ne man in the smoker had been pinioned against hot stove with one foot in the stove, suf- feriaR untold agony as his foot was slowly burned by live coals. This was one of many agOnizlng scenes witnessed by the rescuers. The injured were brought to hospitals in this city, where 1t is reported tonight that all will re- cover. The dead were taken in charge by the county coroner and brought 10 local morgues.
 List of inc Dead.
 The dead: Roy stafford. 109 Haiden Avenue. Cleveland; Lee D. Montgom- cry. Linneus, Mo-; J B. Whittemore or Carrolton, Mo, who was severely scala ed, died at a hospital here tonight; James s. Remour. Richmond. Mo, Cashier of the Ray County Savings Bank; John McGregor. Santa Fe en- gineer, Fort Madison. La; Michael Schneider. Chicago:J. F. Capps. bag gage man, Chicago: Carl Emil Torren. immigrant. Brooklyn; Romastisio Pee ci. immigrant, from Naples; Pomerio Rocco. immigrant. ftom Naples: Luther Richardson, a negr, waiter, Chicago; William Harrison, a negro porter, Chi cago: Adrian Peatteit, immigrant from NorthinE, Switzerland; J. B. Whitte- more Carrolton, Mo
 The injured: B. r. Celley, Chicago leg broken: II. A. 0egardine. Chicago. express messenger. leg broken and otherwise hurt; Arthie Carter, Rich mond, Mo, news agent. leg crushed and arm broken; J. M. Killian. LaHarpe, Kas., leg broken; Aaron Berkason. Chi- cago. grocer. slightl. hurt; Ralph Skin ner, La Harpe, Kas- leg broken, head cut; Ralph Reinhar1t, Buffalo, N. Yp leg crushed; J. V. Bishop, Chicago, left leg broken, bruised about head and body; Campbell Grant. Retford. Eng land, head and chest crushed, probably hurt internally; condition serious.