Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-10-31
Passengers Crushed to Death
Under Debris and Man Has
Foot Burnt Off.
80 OR MORE SEVERELY INJURED
Many of the Dead Arc Immigrants on
Their Way to the west-occupsnts
OF Pullman Cars Escape With Minor
tIurts-Physicians Arrive Quickly
on the Scene.
lOsv Associntcl Press J

KANSAS CITY Oct 30.-At least
thirteen persons were killed AMI lhir
ty Others injured today in IN.
wreck of ore of the fastest regular
trains on the Atchison. Topeka G.
Eante Fee railway. California limited
No. l which left Chicago at 10 o'clocI,
last night for the Far West. The
train was dtched one mile east of
Sheffield, Mo- six miles from the bust.
ness center of Kansas City.
The wreck occurred in cut while
he train was running at the rate of
30 miles an hour. and was caused by
/. spreading rails.
Pinned Down by Wreckaee.
The train was made iD OF vestibuled
cars and while the vestibules prevent
ed tolescoDing in measure, the speed
Ut the train was so great that il caus-
ed several of the cars to pile up on
top of each other. tearing out the
connections. The wrcckage was piled
high end under it scores of passen-
gers and members of the crew were
buried.
, Rrlief trains carrying many. physi-
ci;ihs were sent out from Kansas CITY
shortly before noon and preparations
made to bring the dead and injured to
Kansas city
The Dead
RUDOLPH RICHARDSON. negro
dining car waiter.
j. D.. WHlTTEMoRE, Carrolltun,
Mo.
JOHN MAcGREGoR, Fort Madison,
Iowa
JOHN 7. CAPS. Chicago. express
messenger.
ROY STAFFORD. 100 Hayden ave.
me, Cleveland. Ohio.
LEE ID. MONTGOMERY. .nneus.
Mo.
MICHEAL SCHNEIDER, Chicago.
ROMATISIO PECCO, Italian.
POMOViO ROCO. Italian.
CARL EMIL TOREN, .254 st. Marks
avenue, Brooklyn. n. Y.
ADRIAN PEATTEUT, boy, from
Northng. Switzerland
WILLIAMSON HARRISON, colorcd
porter, Chicago.
JOSEPH SEYMOUR. Richmond,
MO- III
Killed in Their New Country
The other dead have not been iden.
tilted and will not be until the arrival
Of the coroner. Most of them are I'M
migrants ell route from the East to
Los Angeles.
The injured include:
Joseph Rembert. 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
On the Way to His New Post.
John MacGregor, another of the
killed, was an engineer on the Sante
Fc, who had been transferred to one
of the Western divisions of 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 clair
car, -four tourists sleeping cars, two
standard Pullmans and the dining car.
The passenger list was composed
largely of colonization tourists
Pullman Passengers No. Hurt.
Ncerly all the sleeping cars remain
cd on The track and the forward cars
bore the brunt of the shock. The day
coach in front of the chair car fur.
nished the greatest number of killed
and injured.
The great natural wall of rough
stone into which the cars were
thrown, tore the sides out of the day
coaches, and passengers were ground
against the wall and were killed or
badly injured.
One of tho first bodies removed was
( that oflthe dining car porter, Randolph