The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-18
Rock Island Train Goes Into Cimarron
River in Oklahoma.
The Loss of Life Has Been Frightful
According to Reports.
ONLY SIX PASSENGERS SAVED.
Estimated That Two Hundred and
twenty-five Were Drowned.
Engine and All the Cars Are Submerged
in Swollen Waters.
NO NAMES CAN NOW BE GIVEN.
All Is Confusion at Scene of the Fright
full Disaster.
One Report Says That Many People
Are Being Rescued.

Wichita. kan. Sept. ls.-A telephone
message from Hennessy. o. T., eight
miles from the scene of the Rock Island
wreck. says all cars excepting rear Pull
man is in the Cimarron river and that
225 persons were carried into the water.
Six. persons are reported safe.
Oklahoma city. Okla. Sept. 1s.-A
special to the Times-Journal from Enid
this morning stated that fully 100 people
were drowned this morning at o'clock
in the train on the chicago. Rock Island
& Pacific which went through a bridge
into the Cimarron river at Dover. q
miles south of Enid. The engine and all
cars with the exception of the Pullmans
went into the raging stream. It is re-
ported that 100 passengers were in the
chair cars and all were drowned with
the exception of one man, Floyd Seist,
who escaped after wading and swimming
a distance of two miles. -Four other men
were seen to fall from the top of one
of the cars into the water and were
drowned. No names are obtainabie at
this time
Wichita. kan, Sept. 1s.-A dispatch
received here from the scene of the
Rock Island wreck near Dover, Ok. as
serts that only three passengers on the
train were saved. The wires We're car
ried down with the bridge and no de-
tails are obtainable here.
Another dispatch reports a similar ac-
oident on the st. Louis ( San Fran
cisco road in Woods county, ok, mid
way between Okeene and Ames, where
a heavy freight train is reported to
have gone through another bridge over
the Cimarron river. It is stated that the
engineer. fireman and head brakeman
can not be found.
Oklahoma City. Sept 1s-A report
has just been received from Kinghsher
stating that many people have been
rescued at Dover, a relief train having
arrived there from the scene of the
terrible accident which befeII the Chi
cago. Rock Island s. Pacific passenger
train this morning. Many people more
dead than alive have been placed in
the hotels at Kinghsher. while a num-
ber Of dead bodies have been taken to
the morgue there A number Of
TIinghsher people were on the train
and have not been found
Oklahoma CITY. Okla Ser~ "a
special to the Times-JournaI from Law
ton, Okla. says.
The local Rock Island office is in re-
ceipt of vague news Of the pIungine of
No. u, northbound Rock Island passen-
ger train into the Cimarron river be-
tween Dover and Kingfsher on the main
line at o'clock this morning. Latest
reports state that the engine is out of
sight in the river of raging water and
probably many lives lost. Part of the
bridge was damaged by heavy rains last
night and the train ran onto It without
the engineers knowledge of the condi-
tion Of the bridge. The bridge gave
away. Wires are working poorly and
details Of the disaster are meager.
Kansas City. Mo, Sept. 1S-Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train
NO. 12, reported to have gone through a
bridge between Dover and Kinghsher
Okla, left Fort Worth. Tex. last night
at g o'clock and was due to arrive Ia
Chicago at $40 Wednesday morning.