The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-20
NOT So BAD AS
FIRST REPORTED
But Rock Island Wreck ON
ClmarrOn River Was Ter
rible in Extent.
MANY OF THE VICTIMS
STILL AMONG MISSING
List of the Injured Is Long and
Many Are Seriously
Hurt.

| hlNGFlSHER. Okla. Sept. l9.-The
| Slmarron river has fallen eight feet
| from the stage at which it weakened
lhe Rock Island bridge yesterday, when
| part or train No. IL went into the river
| put the smoking car is still six or seven
rect under the surfance and an attempt
TO explore II will not be made until to-
| morrow. 1t rs not known positively
now many persons were in the smoker
when 1t fell. Conductor Thomas SAYS
shere were at least nine, and he believes
that three escaped
Is. +. Nicholson, who escaped from the
smoker, says there were at least ten
persons in the ear and that several per-
sons with whom he had talked are
missing. Mr.. Nicholson escaped from
the rear door Of the smoker. The ear
filed with water rs he clambered to the
upturned end, and he broke vestibule
glass door to make an exit. Escape of
persons known to have been riding in
front Of the smoker, separated from
the rear door by the partition. is
thought TO have been an impossibility.
No bodies have been recovered.
Herman r. Sells, aged 2 years. son of
Mrs, Kate Sells of Payne. o., died today
from acute pneumania as result of in.
haling muddy water.
The, following arc missing and prob
ABLY drowned
MR.. CAMEL, mail clerk, Caldwell,
Kan
II. LITTLEFIELD of Pittsburg. Pa.
bill router Forepaugh-Se circus.
W. l.. DOUGLAS, negro porter.
Injured,
JOHN SULLIVAN. aged %, Chicago,
hand cut.
C. A. SMITH, aged %, New York
City, light cuts.
f. s. BALL, aged 25, Ell Reno, knee
and leg cut.
GEORGE L. WRIGHT, aged 6S. Den.
yer, cuts, bruises and exposure: hoatcd
seven miles down stream
A. a. BALDWIN, aged 30, postal
clerk, Fort Worth, cut on head and
bruises.
FRANK CULLEN, aged %. cut and
bruises; hoated several miles from scene
of wreck.
l.. II. O'BRIEN, aged 30, Oklahoma
City, bruises and cuts.
MRS. KATE SELLS, aged 90, Payne,
O.. shock exposure and internal in
juries.
JACK ROBINSON, aged 67, colored,
slight cuts.
II. II. BALMER, aged 80, teacher in
Haskell institute, Lawrence. Kan,
bruises all over and carried fourteen
miles down stream.
- l.. " In loAN, PpSLdA ClcIhj
bruises; carried two miles.
MRS o. r. HUTSCHER, Dallas,
Tex, back injured nervous shock
o. w. BROWN, aged 60, Comanche,
Okla, hand cut.
DAVID J. LANG, aged A., Hillsboro,
Okls. back injured, head and arm cut.
MRS. j, l.. ROBINSON, aged 80,
Enid. Okla, cuts and strangulation;
may die.
S. W. BRYAN, fireman, aged %,
shoulder dislocated.
One man, whose name cannot be
learned, was taken out of the river to-
day al point nine miles below the
Dover bridge. He was nearly dead when
brought to Kingfsher. He had been
nine hours in the water, clinging TO
floating debris.
Pathetic Relic Found.
Claud Alyca, farmer living ten
miles northeast OF here. found today
what appeared to be hctIc relic of
the wreck. It is n containing
small slip of paper on which are written
these words.
"The one that finds this bottle write
to Cleo, oklahoma, 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 drift
wood. 1t is believed TO be tho dying
message Of some one imprisoned in the