The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-31
COACHES PILE UP
ON PASSENGERS.
Fast VeStibuled Train is.
DitChed BY Spread
ing Rails,
13 PERSONS KILLED:
25. OTHERS INJURED.
Last Call for Breakfast" BY
Dining Car Porter, Followed
By Terrible Crash Against
a Great Natural Wall
Of Rough
Stone.
nv Associated Press. J

fBy Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, October 30 AT least
thirteen perpons were killed and twenty
Ave others injured to-day in the wreck OF
one OF the fastest regular trains on tho
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc Railway.
California Limited. No. !, which left Chi
cago at 10 o'clock last night for the West.
The train was dItcheI one mile east OF
sheffled Mo, six miles from the business
center OF Kansas City.
The wreck occurred in a cut while the
train was running at the rate OF MT
miles an hour, and was caused by spread
ing rails.
The train was made up OF vcstibuled
cars, and while the vesubules prevented
telescoping Ina measure, the speed OF
the train was so great that it caused sew
sral OF the cars to pile up on top OF each
other. tearing out the connections. The
wreckage was piled high. and under 1t
scores OF passengers and members OF the
crew were buried: q
Dead and Injured.
Relief trains carrying many physicians
were sent out from Kansas City shortly
before noon. and preparations made 70
bring the dead and injured to Kansas
City.
The dead:
RUDOLPH RICHARDSON. negro din
Ing car walter.
Iowa.
JOHN T. CAPS. Chicago. express mes.
senger.
nue., Cleveland. Ohio.
LEE D. MONTGOMERY, Linneus. NO..
carried letter OF introduction 10 post
master at st. Joseph. Mo.
MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, Chicago.
q ROMATISIO &PECCO. Italian.
IoN1oyIo ROCCO. Italian. =.
ARL EMIL TOREN. No. 254 St. Marks
Avenue Brooklyn.
ADRIAN sPEATTEUT. boy from North
ting. Switzerland
WILLIAMSON HARRISON. colored por-.
ter. Chicago.
JOSEPH SEYMOUR. Richmond, Mo-.
The other dead have not been denti-
fled. and will not be until the arrival OF
the coroner. Most OF them are immigrants
on route from the East to Los Angeles.
The injured include:
Joseph ReElbart. Buffalo. NJ y; leg
crushed, arm hurt
George Klaes. Buffalo. n. Y: bruised
and cut.
Joseph Seymour, one Of tho 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 Fc, who
had been transferred to one Of the
western divisions of the road, and waa
on his way to Topeka to take his new
run.
Most of the injured were in the smoker.
The train consisted OF one mall car.
one baggage car, one coach, one char
car, four tourists sleeping cars two
standard Pulmans and one dining car.
The passenger list was composed largely
OF colonization tourists.
Sleeping Cars Kept Track,
Nearly all the sleeping cars remained
on the track, and the forward cars bore
the brunt of the shock None OF the
passengers in the sleeping cars were
hurt, The day coach In front of the
chair car furnished the greatest number
OF killed and injured.
Tho great natural wall Of rough stone.
into which the cars were thrown. tore
the sides off the day coaches and passcn-
Z gers We're ground against the wall, and
each killed or badly injured
One of the first hodles removed was
that Of The dinlng-car porter Rudolph
Richardson. When killed he was passing
through one of the renr cars, ana had
Just made the announcement.
Last call for break fast.
j. D.NWhitemore oneHOf the injured, /
was In the smoker which had an old
fashioned .coal stove heater. He was
thrown In s,,ch way that one leg was
TANNED into the broken stove In con-
tact with tho live Goals. TIe was so
covered with debris that he could not
get out, and his foot was burned llnttl
i n must l,n n,,n,,tnt ed
Wounded Will Recover
II: g. Rust, ensineer, af tile wrecked
from the, rails and ran 800 feet on The
ties, finally stopping upright
The wreck was caused by striking a
loose rail-, The locomotive Was going so
rapidly that It passed the rail- in safety.
The mall car Immediately behind Jumped
thetrack and struck the side of the bluff.
and the four cars following poughed
through the wreckage and shot against
the high stone wall, The sides Of the
IS coaches We're crushed against the rough
stone, Killing and woundlns passengers
and trainmen,
ieft' the rails Three tourist sieenlns ilS cars sn
remained on the track, The smoking car
split the baggage car ahead of 1t Just be-
low theS floor line and the baggage car
landed on top Of the crushed smoking
Ger. It is reported Tonight that all the
SWoundAd will caoQYoc sf}