The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-31
Thirteen Meet Awful Death in
 Missouri Cut
ONE MAYS LEG WAS ROASTED
Jagged Rocks of a Cut Tear Off Sides of Coaches Bringing Dozens Under the
 Debris.

the wreck today of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train No. 1, known as the California express which, while running at thirty-five miles an hour, struck loose rail, ditching five cars one mile east of Blue 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 10:3O this morning, Is a through train running between Chicago and San Fran cisco. It was running at q higher speed than usual today, being ten or fifteen min utes behind it's schedule, The wreck oc- cured at what the railroad men call Rock creek cut, in cut where jagged rocks from a wall on each side of the track from bluff almost a hundred feet high. The engine was going so rapidly that it passed the loose rail In safety. The mail car, immediately behind, jumped the track and struck the side of the bluff to the right and the four cars following ploughed through 1t and shot against the high stone wall at the left.
 Sides of Coaches Torn Off.
 The sides of the coaches were torn off by scraping against the rough stone sur face, and passengers and trainmen. ground against the wall, were either killed out right or badly hurt The cars which left the track were a mail car. baggage and express car, the smoking car the chair car and tourists sleeping car. Three tourists sleepers. two standard pullnans and the dining car remained on the track.
 None of the passengers in the cars which remained on the track was hurt. Rellef trains with physicians and surgeons left this city for the scene of the wreck as soon as possible.
 Had Been Taken From Wreckage.
 Pending the arrival of the relief trains the able-bodied passengers and tranmen did all they could to care for the dead and alleviate the distress of the injured. and when the doctors arrived most of the dead and injured had been taken out ol the wreckage.
 In many instances 1t was necessary to dig under the debris to extricate the un- fortunate victims. One man in the smoker had been pinioned against hot stove, with one foot in the stove, suffering un- told agony as his foot was slowly burned by live coals This was one of many agonizing scenes witnessed by the res cuers The injured were brought to hos pitfalls in this city. where 1t Is reported tonight that all will recover
 J B. Whittmore of Carrolton, Mo, who was severely scalded, died at hos pital here tonight.
 The dead were taken in charge by the county coroner and brought to the city morgues
 The Dead. Roy Stafford, 109 Hayden avenue, cleve- land.
 Lee D. Montgomery, Linneus. Mo-
 James Seymour, Richmond, Mo, cash fer of the Ray County Savings bank.
 John McGregor. a Santa Fe engineer Fort Madison, La.
 Michael Schneider, Chicago. J. F. Capps, baggageman, Chicago
 Carl Emil Torren, immigrant, Brook lyn. 4
 Romatistio Pecci, immigrant from Na- ples. -
 Pomeroi Rocco, immigrant from Na- ples.
 Luther Richardson, negro waiter, Chi cago.
 William Harrison, a negro porter, Chi cago
 Adrian Peatteut. immigrant from Nor thing, Switzerland.
 Tho Injured. J. B. Whlttmore, Carrolltof' MO- D. Y ' celley, Chicago, leg broken; H. A. Te- gardne, Chicago, express messenger, leg broken, arm hurt; Archie Carter, Rich mond, Mo- news agent. leg crushed, arm broken; J. M. Killain, Laharpe, Kan, leg broken; Aaron Berkason. Chicago, gro- cer, slightly hurt; Ralph skinner. La harpe, Kan, leg broken, head cut; Ralph Reinhart Buffalo, N. r., leg crushed; J. " Bishop, Chicago, left leg broken, bruised about head and body; Campbell Grant, Retford, England. head and chest crushed, probably hurt internally, condi- ton serious; T. F. Seely, Richmond. Mo-. internal injuries; Swedish woman who cannot speak English, badly hurt; twen- ty-two others received minor injuries
 Five Killed in Iowa.
 Des Moines 1a.. October 50-t1ve per sons were killed in head-on collision this morning between two freight trains on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific i railroad at Casey. Ia. The dead: Fireman Ed Nelson. Engineer Bert Shields. Fireman William Marshall.