Arizona republican., 1906-09-20
HIDDEN DEAD
 IN CIMMARRON
None of the Bodies Have
 Been Recovered
Story of the Only Known Survivor of the Sub merged Smoker.

Kingfsher okla, Sept. 19.-The Cimarron river has fallen eight feet from the stage at which it weakened the Rock Island bridge yesterday, when part of train No. 12 went into the river, but the smoking car is still six or seven feet under water and an attempt to explore it will not be made until to- morrow.
 It is not known positively how many persons were in the smoker when it fell Conductor Thomas says there were at least nine, and he believes three escaped. B. P. Nicholson, who escaped from the smoker, says there were at least ten in the car, and that persons with whom he had talked are missing. MT. Nicholson escaped from the rear door of the smoker. The car filled with water as he climbed to the end, and he broke a veStibuIe glass door to make an exit.
 The escape of persons known to have been riding in the front end of the smoker. separated by the rear parti- ton, is thought to have been an inn possibility. No bodies have been re- covered.
 H. E. Sells. son of Mrs. Kate Sells of Payne. Ohio. died today from acute pneumonia as a result of inhaling muddy WalSI The following are missing and prob ably dead:
 MT. Camel. mail clerk; Caldwell, Kan.
 H. Littlefeld, Pittsburg. Pa; bill poster of Forepaugh- Sells circus.
 W. L. Douglass, negro porter.
 The injured:
 John Sullivan, aged 2s, Chicago; hand cut. c. A Smith. aged 2s, New York city; slight cuts.
 F. $. Ball, aged 25, Fl Reno; knee and leg cut.
 George L. Wright, aged 6S, Denver; cuts, bruises and exposure; hoated seven miles down stream. A. A. Baldwin, aged 30; postal clerk; cut on head and bruised Frank Cullen, aged 23; cut and bruised; fioated several miles down river.
 L. H. o'Brien, aged 30. Oklahoma City; bruises and cuts
 Mrs. Kate Sells, aged 29. Payne, Ohio; shock, exposure and internal in- jury
 Jack Robinson, aged 67, colored; slight cuts.
 H. H. Balmer. aged 30. teacher in Haskell institute, Lawrence, Kan; bruises. and carried fourteen miles down river S. D. OvFton, postal clerk; bruises; carried two miles.
 Mrs c. R. Hutscher. Dallas, Tex; back injured, nervous shock O. w. Brown, aged 62, Comanche. Okla; hand cut. David J. Lang, aged 47, 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; shoul- der dislocated.
 One man. whose name cannot be | learned, was taken out of the river to- day at a point nine miles below the Dover bridge. He was nearly dead when brought here. He had been nine hours in the water. clinging to floating | debris.
 Claude Alyea, a farmer, living ten miles northeast of here, found today what appeared to be a pathetic relic of ! the wreck It is a bottle containing a small slip of poper, on which are writ ! ten these words: "The one that finds ] this bottle write to Cleo, Okla, to FL don Camp. I love you" The bottle was found at the Alyea farm, several miles below the fatal bridge, in a pile of wreckage and driftwood. It is be- i lieved to be the dying message of some one imprisoned in the submerged ! smoker.