Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1906-09-20
Seven Feet Of Rushing Water
Above Watery Tomb of Un-
known Number Of PaSSen-
gers,
SURVIVORS FLOAT IA
MILES DOWN RIVER
Still Impossible to Tell How
Many Lost Lives in Rock
Island Wreck Many Ter
ribIy Injured.

riby Injured,
Kingfsher, Okla. Sept. 10.-The
Cimarron river has fallen eight feet
from the stage at which it weakened
the Rock Island bridge yesterday,
when part of train No. IL went into
the river but the smoking car is still
six or seven feet under the surface
and an attempt to explore it will not
he made until tomorrow. 1t is not
known positively how many persons
were in the smoker when it fell. Con-
ductor Thomas says there were at
least nine, and he believes that three
escaped.
b.. p. Nicholson. who escaped
from the smoker. saws there were
at least ten persons in the car, and
that persons with whom he had
talked are missing. Mr.. Nicholson
escaped from the rear door of the
smoker The car flied with water as
he clambered to the upturned end,
and he broke yestibule glass to
sons known To-. .haeVe. been riding In
the front end of the smoker, sep
arated from the rear door by par
tition is thought to have been an I'm
possibility. No bodies have been re-
covered.
Herman r.. Sells, aged years, son
of Mrs. Kate Sells of Payne, l., died
today from acute pneumonia as a re-
suit of nhalng muddy water.
The following are missing and
probably drowned:
Mr.. Camel, mail clerk, Caldwell
Kas.
II. Littleheld, of Pittsburg Pa, bill
poster of Forepaugh- circus.
w. l.. Douglass. negro porter.
Following are the injured:
John Sullivan, aged 80, Chicago
hand cut.
G. A. Smith, aged 20, New York
City; slight cuts.
r. S. Ball, aged 25, FL Reno; knee
and leg cut.
George l.. Wight, aged 6S, Denver;
bruises and cuts hoated seven miles
down stream.
A. A. Baldwin, aged 30, postal
clerk. Fort Worth; cut on head and
bruised.
Frank Cullen, aged 23; cut and
bruised; foated several miles from
scene of wreck.
l.. II. OBrlen, aged 80, Oklahoma;
bruised and cut.
Mrs. Kate Sells, aged 30, Payne,
o.; shock exposure and Internal in
iuries.
Jack Robinson, aged 67, coored;
slight cuts.
H. H. Balmer, aged 80, teacher in
IN II n q
bruised all over and carried fourteen
miles down stream.
S. d. Overton postal clerk; bruises;
carried two miles.
Mrs. G.. r. Hutscher. Dallas. Tex.
back injured, nervous shock.
O. w Brown, aged SO, Comanche
Okla. hand cut.
David J. Lang. aged A., Hillsboro
okla; back injured, head and arm
cut.
Mrs. j. L. Robinson. aged 32, Enid
Okla; cuts and strangulation; may
die.
S. w. Bryan, fireman, aged 2S;
shoulder dlslocated.
One man whose name could not be
learned, was taken out of the riveI
today at point nine miles below the
Dover bridge.
lie was nearly dead when brought
TO Klngfisher. He had been nint
hoursl in the water clinging to float.
Ing debris.
Claude Alyea, farmer living ter
miles northeast of here, found today
what appeared to be a pathetic relic
of the wreck. II is bottle con
tanning a small slip of paper OF
which are written these words:
The one that finds this bottle
write to Cleo. Oklamona to EldoT
Eldon camp. ] love YOU
The bottle was found at the Alyet
farm several miles below the fata
bridge, in n pile of wreckage ant
driftwood. 1t IL believed TO be thu
dying message OF some one impris
oned in the submerged smoker.