The Topeka state journal., 1906-05-17

r. A Swartz. postal clerk, 1920 New
Iersey avenue. Kansas City; injured IN
abdomen; serious.
Martin Conway, engineer No. II, S24
Kansas avenue, Kansas City, Kan;
neck, wrist and leg sprained; painful,
but probably not serious.
H l. Hilscher, fireman No. y,
South Tenth street, Kansas City, Kan;
back sprained; not serious.
L. F. Slayton, postal clerk. 1888
Cherry street, Kansas City; bruised.
f. H. Hixon. postal clerk. 500 Chest
nut street Kansas City; bruised
Mrs NJ. J. Rawley, Walters, Okla.
stomach bruised and may be injured
internally,
Ann Mccarthy, Harvard, Ill; tongue
Carl Miller. Norman. Okla; neck
NJ. N. Shaw. Caldwell. kan, postal
service; leg bruised.
w H Tate. St. Louis. postal service;
back spTained.
The switch engine was in charge OF
Engineer Peckham and Fireman
3Vcoterson. They had been switching
la long string of freight cars ana had
placed them in the clear when the
passenger train came in sight. PECK
ham started the switch engine forward
Ito take a siding, but did not get into
the clear in time. The passenger en-
igine struck one side of the switch en-
tgfne and tossed il across the tracks.
When the passenger engine struck
the smaller engine it left the rails
Hrenched Itself loose from the mail
and baggage car, ran about % feet on
the south side of the right of way and
was not stopped until its drivers were
sunk up to the driving rods IN the GIN
der ballast. This engine was OF the
Monmouth greyhound type. When It
left the rails it made kindling wood
OF the ties and bent and twisted and
snapped the so pound steel rails as if
they were sticks of candy In It's
course after leaving the track, It caught
Ia sfdetrack beneath its pilot, bending
the rails almost into a letter tU' and
throwing a portion of it over fence
into a field beyond
Engineer Conway said that he was
running about Z5 miles an hour when he
saw the switch engine on the track
ahead Of him. He had just time to put
on the emergency and reverse his en-
sgine and jump when the trains struck
Conway and his fireman, Harry Hilch-
er, were among the injured Peckham
and Wooterson. the crew of the switch
engine. jumped just before the collision
and escaped injury
Mr.. swartz. the postal clerk, who was
the worst injured. was taken into a
pullman car shortly after the collision
where he was attended by DR.. l. H.
Mum. DR.. Mum discovered that while
no bones were broken, Swartz had some
lsevere cOntusions about the chest and
1t was possible that he was injured in
iternally, These injuries were serious
are not dangerous and It was stated to-
day that Mr.. Swartz viii recover.
Swartz was in the act of taking the
lid of a box preparatory to dumping
its contents into a mail sack which he
held with the other hand, when the en-
gines collided. He was thrown violent
" forward his abdomen striking an
iron bar. He was thrown to the floor
where his associates in the mail car
say he bounded about like a rubber ball
He found his way out Of the car unas-
sisted, but was soon compelled to go to
a berth in a Pullman. SO intense was
his pain.
Miss Mccarthy was leaning slightly
forward in a seat in the chair car
when the shock came. She was thrown
forward. her chin striking the back OF
the chair in front, bringing her teeth
together on her tongue MY first
thought was" said Miss Mccarthy
that my tongue was cut off and thai
I would never be able to talk again.
It was necessary to build a "shoo-
fly around the scene of the wreck
so badly was the track torn up This
was accomplished about 1870 o'clocl
when traffic on the main line was re-
eurned