The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-09-20

FROM the overturned SllOkCI.j
onncsscy Okla. Sept ia few minutes past o'clock tins
morning Rock Island No. ~ two hours late running at the
usual speed struck the bridge the Cmmaro when the first
span gave and the engine and all the except chair car and
sleeper pecpcd into the Of the treacherou Cmmar
on carrying with its load Of human freight The loss Of life
estimated at about 100 persons
Sheriff Love of Kngfhcr made his way through window Of
the coach and carried five miles down and then succeeded
in landing safely Attorney Moore Arthur Cason and John Short
all of IIcnncssey, slightly injured but ashore,
Engineer Hes seeing the condition Of track put the air brakes
and he and Conductor Cond jumped Men, and children
were soaked and bruised and many seriously injured After the
accident Dover resident who witness saw four men SIT
ting on partly submerged and the remaining piers of the bridge
giving swung the north side of the river hitting the coach
upon which the unfortunate victims sat completely submegng the
and hurting the into the raging water and they were never
seen again. The is still rising and nothing be done to-
wards recovering the bodies Of the dead until the river subsidies
partial list of the in jured follows:
II. Verback, Kingfshc
Sheriff Love- King6shcr.
]. P. Nicholson, Kingfsher
A. A. HYATT, Burden, Ohio
w. w. Parson Burden Ohio.
c. W. Brown Comanche l. 7.
Mrs. G. H. HUSTLER, Dallas Tex
S. Scger Goodand Kan.
David Lang.
DR.. Harmed, Vernon, Tex
L. A. Mccoy Kansas City.
D. II. Halber, Yukon, Okla.
Mrs. Kate Sells and child, Payne Ohio
Simon W. Burum fireman, Chickasla, shoulder dislocated
Engineer Hes, head cut
c. /. Akcson Lone Tree, Ia. ~ -
Arthur Cashion IIemcsscy.
DUE TO HIGH WATER
Guthrie Okla, Sept 1S.Eght people arc dead twenty more
or less injured and many missing in the most disastrous
wreck the history of the Rock Island which occurred three miles
! from Dover Okla, at $50 this morning
| cmokpr end 1Vc
of passenger train No - nobd left the high bridge that
spans the Cnarron river and plunged into the current ankcd by
eaccous quick sands The locomotive disappeared from sight
almost Immediately.
The accident due to the defective condition of the bridge,
which swcrycd Of line by the of drttwood carried
down by the swollen stream.
The train hour late and running high speed make
up time The engineer did the condition of the bridge until
he within few Yards when too late stop lie shouted
his fireman, threw air bra and jumped lie landed on the
very verge Of the bank and escaped un The fireman was
! less fortunate sustaining injuries
REPORT FROM KINGFISER
Kngfshcr Okla Sept 1SI,oc Island passenger No. II went
through the (maon river bridge near Dover this morning about
o'clock and is thought the loss Of life will be 20 30 The day
coach and the smoker mail and mgagc swept down the
river The day coach which loaded went ashore about hun
dcd yards down the river and the and children from
that car all escaped drowning Many of them in precrous con
dion from effects of bnis and exposure One lady and one child
who were in fills car will die Conductor Thomas worked like o
ian and won the admiration of every The smoker had 20 per
sons and up this evening most of these have shown up Sheriff
Love Of this place this and when down swain from
the middle of the the bank accomplishment that few could
have performed He his home threatened with pneumonia
-Four members of FocpgScs show were the smoker and all
have shown up except by the of ehcd who was
drowned It impossible in the confusion to find out how many
were lost Some have been swept down the river and have been
cued by farmers who have them their homes Others have been
brought town and in the hands of physicians Very few IN
the front escaped without bruises and all are suffering
from the exposure to which they subjected.
1t was reported this evening that few had been swept to the
north side of the river and had been taken Dover The entire
bridge gone well the wagon bridge the CmarQn in this
/ county. eH g u ss
Il SCENE OF TERRIBLE CONFUSION.
When the engine struck the bridge the whole structure suddenly
collapsed precpang the engine and coaches into the water