Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-15
THREE TRAINS WRECKED
Express on Frisco Line Runs Into Box
Cars Near Columbus, Kansas
FAST MAIL ON MISSOURI PACIFIC D1cHED
-Four Persons seriously Injured aud
Two Cars of Mail Destroyed
in Wreck Near JET
fcrsOB Citg.

FORT SCOTT. Kan, Feb. H.-Two per-
sons were burned to death, another died
from over-exertion and excitement in try
ing to save victims, and five others were
injured i'm the wreck early today at Column
bus of the Joplin Express, northbound on
the st. Louis & San Francisco railway. The
train caught fire following the wreck and
with the exception of the Pullman was con-
sumed
The dead
HARRY ROUNDTREE. Fort Scott. Kan,
express messenger; burned to death.
J. ii; lOCKHART, Joplin, Mo, newsboy;
A. ii. HERKE. Weir Kan, died of heart
disease.
The injured:
Harry Wood. Fort Scott. Kan. engineer:
dangerous.
w. +. Runyan. Fort Scott, Kan, fireman
leg broken.
6. q. waddell, Tuscumbia, Mo-, slightly.
Two Joplin women, names unknown mot
sent to hospital, slightly.
The passenger train ran into string Of
box cars that had broken loose from a
freight train and ran back down onto the
main line. The entire passenger train, ex-
cept the sleeper. was burned.
The wrecked train was known the
oplin-Oklahoma express and ran between
Alton J. T.. and Fort Scott. The train,
which left Alton at O'Clock last night,
was made up of baggage. smoker and two
chair cars. There were few passengers on
the train.
Wreck Missouri Pacific.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1i-Missourl Pacific fast
mail train No. I, which left St Louis for
Kansas City at 3:O5 this morning jumped
the track at 4:5O a. m. while crossing the
"a do ri oil mi w
of st. Louis, the scene of the Gasconade
horror of fifty years ago. The mail train
is not scheduled to stop at Gasconade and
was running forty miles an hour when the
accident occurred. A spreading rail caused
it to leave the track 800 feet east of the
bridge. The engine ran onto the bridge
and past the first two spans, crushing the
cross ties and tearing down n portion of
the approach. The bridge is of steel. The
first two mail cars were smashed and took
fire. Men from Gasconade, Herman and
Morrison. adjoining towns. were soon on
the scene and formed bucket brigade, but
despite their efforts the two cars of mail
were destroyed.
Five persons were injured in the acct
dent. as follows:
John o. Burch. conductor. St. Louis.
right shoulder broken. head cut and skull
may he fractured.
Samuel Montague, brakeman, st. Louis,
body and head bruised
George Clifford. engineer. st. Louis, arm
broken. head cut and bruised.
Samuel 7. Nieten. railway mail clerk, st.
Louis. head cut and body bruised.
r. +. White. brakeman, Kansas City,
head bruised and cut.
relief train arrived from Jefferson City
and took the injured to Sedalil.
The following statement was given out at
1879 a. IN. from the Office of the general
manager:
our wires are down and the meager in
formation we have received has been de-
toured in n roundabout way. The en-
CINE jumped the track $50 feet east of
the bridge and ran on to the structure.
Two postal ears of the six constituting the
train overturned and burned. The others
were derailed, but kept upright Four per-
sons were injured. They are Conductor J.
Clifford of St. Louis, a brakeman and a
postal clerk, names not known.
The approach TO rt the bridge bridge was consid-
mail train that has been running between
ST. Louis and Kansas City for twelve
train Traffic will be resumed within few
hours.
Second Wreck on Frisco.
ST LOUIS. Feb. 14.-While coming into
st. Louis at forty miles hour this
morning, two sleepers on a Frisco train
took siding, tore loose from the train
and crashed into a box loaded with
terra Gotta. The passengers were hurled
pellmell but none were hurt beyond
bruises. Charles Lewis, a negro porter,
was badly injured. The car of terra Gotta
was demolished.
Nebraska BOY Saves Train
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Feb 14.-(Spe-
cial. 1.-THE 12-year-old son OF Milton Hud-
son. a farmer, residing near Elba saved
train from being ditched yesterday. The
boy discovered a broken rail. About
eighteen inches OF the rail had evidently
ben torn out by previous train or in
some other manner. Though the weather
was approaching that of a blizzard the
boy managed to attract the attention OF
the engineer and the train was stopped
within few feet of the break. The MEM
bers of the train crew are confident that