The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-18

The train was made up of engine. com
bination baggage and mail car, smoker
one coach, chair car and two Pullman
sleepers.
No Information regarding the wreck
was obtainable at the Kansas City office
Of the Rock Island and but little was
obtainable from the office of the super
iufendent at Topeka
Ia a telephone conversation with the
superiutendents office at Topeka, it was
stated that all that was positively known
there was that the engine. mail and
baggage car and smoker were believed
10 have gone into the river. 1t was stated
positively that the coach and the sleep
ers remained on the track.
Wires were reported down from all di-
rections, the result of a heavy storm
last night, and the railway was trying
in every manner possible to reach the
scene It was stated that relief trains
had been sent from Herington and Cald-
we'll Kan, and probably also from
points south of the wreck.
The Cimarron river bridge. which is
said to have been weakened by the
heavy rains and to have gone down
under the weight of the train, is three
miles south of Dover in Kingdsher
county. Oklahoma.
Special correspondents have been
sent to the scene from FL Reno. King
fisher. Hennessey and other Oklahoma
points. The only report SO far re-
ceived from any of the points is one
from Hennessey to the effect that the
engineer ran onto the weakened bridge
without the least warning and that the
engine and forward cars were reported
TO be submerged in the river which has
iTc a
this point is unusually deep. The en-
gine is stated completely covered up.
The wreck occurred at o'clock this
morning. just at about dawn.
Chicago. Sept. 1s-At the general
Offices of the Rock Island road in this
city it was announced that the train
No. Il had gone through the bridge
over the Cimarron river, but It was
stated that only the engineer and fire
men were injured and that no passen-
gers were hurt. The two injured men
are not expected to die. The informa-
ton so far received here is meager and
came in a roundabout way. but the Of
hcials express themselves as confident
the passengers are safe.
Oklahoma city, Okla. Sept. 1s.-Nine-
teen bents of the Frisco bridge over the
Cimarron river near Okeene have wash
ed out and freight train is in the river.
The dispatcher received this news short
y before mon.
Kansas City, Mo-, Sept. ia private
message received here at o'clock this
afternoon from Dover, Okla, the nearest
Geographic point to the scene OF the
Rock Island wreck says that A bodies
have already been taken to Dover and
placed in a temporary morgue there.
After this information was transmitted
the wire to Dover was lost.
The News at the Topeka Offices
It was stated at the local Rock
Island Offices that positive Information
had been received that the engineer
and fireman had escaped with their
lives, although the fireman sustained a
broken arm. The names Of the train
men were not available at a late hour
this afternoon
The smoking car was the last Of the
coaches to fall into the river. The cars
ahead of it saved it from falling into
the river entirely. It was only partly
submerged, while the engine, baggage
and mail cars were entirely sub
merged in the torrent. The chair car
and Pullman cars remained on the
track.
The postal clerks at work in the
mail car escaped from the car with
their lives. They we're able to catch
hold of some driftwood and make their
way to the bank of the river Their
names were likewise not available.
The local offices have had no ad-
vices in regard to whether there was
loss Of life or not in the partly sub
merged smoking car.
The bridge which gave way was Of