The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-10-31
KILLED;
30 HURT
in WRECK

TVio w HAt All'd hlAAA ~ wiz AAJaAN' 80 49,
wreck yesterday OF a west-bound Atchi-
son. Z, )peka and Santa Fe passenger
train, lmown as the California Express
which, while running S6 miles an hour,
struck a loose rail, ditching Ave cars near
the ga, tern limits OF Kansas City.
THE DEAD:
Roy stafford. Cleveland.
Lee 10. Montgomery. Linneus. Mo.
Jama = Seymour, Richmond, Mo.
John McGregor, Fort Madison, Ia
Max Schneider. Chicago.
j. +. capps, baggage man. Chicago.
Carl Emil Torntund, immigrant, Brook
lyn.
Doaa Dipomozo. Corrisiano. Italy.
Rocco Dipomozo, son OF Donate.
Adrian Peattent. immigrant from
Worthin Z. Sussex, England.
Luther Richardson, colored walter.
William Harrison. colored porter.
j. b. NThittemore. Carrollton. Mo.
nut THE LOOSE RAIL.
The WIRE ok occurred at Rock Greek Cut.
I'm n cisrus where Jagged rock walls on
each si,se of the track form "A blum almost
100 feet hig h. The locomotive was going so
rapidly thitt II passed the loose rail In
safety. The mail car. Immediately be-
hind iun ape q the track and struck the
Flht VI u " GAAAA AAFA III ItbA AHN ~
ing pillow ed through the wreckage and
shot agai nst a high wall.
The side + of the coaches were crushed
against the rough stone, killing and
wounding pa, 'engers and trainmen.
The smoking; car. n chair car. a tourist
sleeping car'aild two express cars. left the
rails. Three tourist sleeping cars. two
standard Putin lan's and the dining car re-
NAMED on the track. The smoking car
split the has va &c car ahead OF II Just be-
low the floor J Inc. and the baggage car
landed or top df the crushed smoking car.
None Of IN 2 passengers in the cars
which remain I'd on the track was hurt.
The injured " ere given emergency treat
ment at the w1Eeck and later were brought
to hospitals IN. Kansas City as soon as
possible.
1t is reported last night that all the
wounded will rscover. Most OF the in
jured were imm " rants. riding IN the chair
car and the sm,1sing car.
DEAD IN DAY COACH.
The train conln sted Of one mail ear.
one baggage car. one coach. one chair
car. four tourists "a eeping cars. two stand
ard Pullmans and one dining car. n
passenger list was composed largely OF
colonization tourists
Nearly all the sls 'eping cars remained
on the track. and Are forward cars bore
the brunt OF the shoak X. None OF the pas
sengers In the sleep Ing cars were hurt.
The day coach in fr, mt OF the chair car
furnished the greataft number OF killed
and injured.
The great natural wall Of rough stone
into which the cars were thrown tore the
sides of the day COACHES and passengers
were ground against the wall and either
killed or badly injured.
One OF the first boslies removed was
that OF the dining car porter. IMther
Richardson. When KIM ID he was passing
through one OF the raar cars and had
Just made the announce ,ment. Last call
for breakfast
j. ID. Whitemore. onS OF the injured,
was I'm the smoker. VIII ich had an old
fashioned coal stove heater. He was
thrown In such a way that one leg was
TANNED into the broken stove In con-
tact with tho live Goals. lie was so COW
cred with debris that he could not re-
lease himself. and his foot was so badly
burned that amputation may be neces-
sary.
ENGINEERS STORY.
II. G. Rust. engineer OF the wrecked
train. and his fireman, William Delong.
escaped injury. The locomotive leaped
from the rails and ran 800 feet on the
ties. finally stopping upright.
I'VE were running about So miles an
hour when the crash came" said the en-
gineer. / felt n rail turn under my en-
CINE. we gave a lurch and l could feel
the wheel humping along the ties.
81 looked back as my train broke loose
from the engine. The first car. an ex-
press. leaped from the track. turned at
an angle and crashed into the stone wall
Of the cut through which we were run
ming. The car was demolished except
the roof. which stood upright
Immediately behind the express car
came a mail car. a smoking car. a chair
car and n tourist car. They piled up in
a mass on the express car. My fireman
and i. with the aid OF equip
ment. In 30 minutes got the engine back
on the track. Then I ran on to Sheffield.
reported the wreck and took back two
physicians"
The injured include: William Burrows,
New York. cuts and bruises: Thomas Gar
win. Canton. O., cut on head; Make Don
aid. Sweden, cuts on head and body:
Ralph Reinhart. Buffalo. N. Y, leg
crushed; Campbell Grant, Eckford. Eng
land. head and chest hurt; George Klaes.
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