Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-20
SEARCHING FOR THE DEAD.
0imarron River Refuses to Give Up Bodies
of Rook Island Wreck Victims.
SMOKING CAR STILL UNDER WATER
Three Persons Known 20 BE Missing
and sixteen Are Injured
Baby Dies of Pneu-
monte.

KINGFISHER, Okl., Sept. is.-The Cim-
arron river has fallen eight feet from the
stage at which 1t 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 1t will not be
made until tomorrow. II Is not known
positively how many persons were in the
smoker when II fell Conductor Thomas
says there were at least nine, and he be-
lieves that three escaped. B. p. Nicholson,
who escaped from the smoker, says 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 filed
with water as he clambered to the upturned
end and he broke a vestibule glass door
to make an exit. Escape of persons known
to have been riding in the front end of
the smoker. separated from the rear door
by partition, y thought to have been
an impossibility. No bodies have been re-
covered. Herman e. Sells aged years,
son of Mrs. Kate E. Sells of Payne. o..
died today from acute pneumonia as a re-
suit Of inhaling muddy water.
Missing and Injured.
The following are missing and probably
drowned:
Mr.. Camel. mail clerk, Caldwell Kan.
II Lttiefield of Pittsburg, Pa, bill
poster Forepaugh-Sells circus.
w. L. Douglas negro porter.
Injured:
John Sullivan, aged %, Chicago; hand
g. A. Smith. aged %, New York City;
f. 8. Bail. aged 25. El Reno; knee and
George Wright aged Ss. Denver; cuts.
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A. A. Baldwin, aged 80, postal clerk. Fort
rtni cut GaSn hsaS ssed 2Hd cSfs Sd
fioated several miles from scene of wreck.
L. H. O'Brien aged 80, Oklahoma City:
Mrs. Kate Sells aged %, Payne. o.;
shock, exposure and internal injuries.
Jack Robinson. aged 81, colored; slight
ii. H. Balmer. aged 30, teacher in Haskell
institute. Lawrence Kan; bruises all over
s. D. Overton postal clerk carried
two miles.
Mrs. c. f, Rutscher. Dallas Tex; back
injured and nervous shock
O. w. Brown aged 81, Comanche, Okl;
David j. Lang, Hilisboro, okl; back in
jured, head and arm cut.
Mrs. j. l.. Robinson, aged 80, Enid Okl;
cuts and strangulati0n may .s die noa.r
dislocated.
One man whose name cannot be learned
was taken out of the river today at a
point nine miles below Dover bridge. He
was nearly dead when brought to King
fisher. He had been nine hours in the
water, clingfng to floating debris.
Message In Bottle.
Gisud Alyea. farmer -iiving ten miles
northeast of here, found today what ap-
pears to be a pathetic relic of the wreck.
II Is a bottle containing small slip OF
paper on which are written these words:
''The one that finds this bottle write to
Cleo Oklahoms, to Eldon Camp. love
you"
The bottle was found at the Alyea farm,
several miles below the fatal bridge, in a
pile of wreckage and driftwood. 1t is be-
lieved to be the dying message OF some
one imprisoned in the submerged smoker.
other Bridges washed Out.
ALVA. Okl., Sept 19.-As a result of the
| excessive rains, and a cloudburst at Ash
land, Kan, eighty-ive miles northwest of
here, bridges are reported gone on nearly
all streams in Western, Woods and Wood
ward counties. The Santa F'e bridge across
the Cimarron, near. Waynoka, could not
be crossed yesterday and the southbound
train remained in Alva all night, No
Rock Island trains arrived here from the
south. The Santa Fe bridge across the
Cimsrron is badly warped from the strain.
There is a rumor that cannot be confirmed
that the bridge across the Cimarron in the
soIlthVyeat mart of the county want o,t