Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-09-21
OVER 200 DEAD IN WRECK.
FAST PASSENGER, BOUND FOR CHI
CAGo, GOES THROUGH BRIDGE
IN OKLAHOMA.
ONE CAR is ABOVE WATER.
Of 225 People in Coaches Only 6 Are Be
lieved to Have Been Saved from
Almost Instant Death.

WICHITA, Kan, Sept. ia special
dispatch from the scene of the wreck
says 225 persons went into the river
with the train and only were saved.
All coaches except the last Pullman went
under.
The Associated Press correspondent
late this afternoon telegraphed from the
scene of the wreck that positively over
100 are dead in the wreck.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept. 1S-The gen
that $50 people would be q high estl-
mate of the number of people on board
the wrecked train.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 19.-(3:15)
"A private message says forty-seven
bodies have already been taken to Do
yer and placed in the morgue there. The
wire was lost after this message was
received.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Sept IS.
A special to The Times-J ournal from
Enid this afternoon stated that fully 100
persons were drowned this morning III
the wreck Oh the uOEluDOuuu Cu1CdSO,
Rock Island & Pacific passenger train
No. u, which went into the Cimmarron
river at Dover, tWenty-seven miles south
of Enid.
The engine and all cars with the ex-
| ceptiOn of the Pullmans went into the
stream, which had been raised to ali
unusual height by a terrific storm last
night.
1t is reported that 100 passengers were
| in the chair cars and that all were
drowned with the exception of one man,
Floyd Zeist. Four men were seen to
fall from the top of one of the cars
into the water and were drowned. No
names of the victims are obtainable at
this time.
A report from I<ingfsher says that
many persons on the Inflated train, res
cued by a relief train. have arrived there
from the scene. Many persons, more
| dead than alive as a result of their eX-
! periences, have been placed in the hotels
| at Kingfsher, while a number of dead
| bodies have been taken to the morgue
| there A number of Kingfsher people,
| known to have been on the train, have
not been found.
LAWTON, Okla, Sept. 1S.-The local
| office of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railway is in receipt of vague
news to the effect that northbound pas
senger train No. u. on that road
! plunged through a bridge over the CHM
marion river, between Dover and King
| fisher early today.
1t is stated that the engineer and fire
| man were killed and it is probable that
many passengers lost their lives Wires
are down. One report says only three
| passengers were saved.
Second Wreck Reported.
Another dispatch reports a similar ac-
cident on the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco road in Woods county, Okla, mid
way between O'Keene and Ames, where
| heavy freight train is reported to have
gone through another bridge over the
| Cimmarron river. 1t is stated that the
| engineer. fireman and head brakeman
cannot be found.
No. II left Fort Worth, Texas, last
night at o'clock, and is due to arrive
| in Chicago at 9:40 Wednesday morn
! ing. The train was made up OF engine,
combination baggage and mail car,
smoker, one coach and one Pullman
| sleeper.
In a telephone conversation at p. m.
with the superintendent office at To-
| peka it was stated that all that was
| positively known there was that the
engine mail and baggage car, the smok-
er and coach were believed to have gone
| into the river. 1t was stated positively
| that the sleeper remained on the track.
| Wires are reported down from all di-
! rectlOnS, the result OF neaVy STORM
last night. and the railway was trying
in every manner possible to reach the
| scene 1t was stated that relief trains
had been sent from Harrington and
| Caldwell. Kas.. and probably also from
points south of the wreck.
No Warning for Engineers.
Special correspondents have been sent
! to the scene from Ell Reno, Kingfsher,
| Hennessey and other Oklahoma points.
| One report from Hennessey was to the
| effect that the engineer ran on to the
weakened bridge without the least warn
| ing and that the engine and forward
cars were submerged in the river, which
| had overhowed it's banks. The water at
this point is unusually deep. The en-
CINE was stated to be completely COW
cred. The wreck occurred at > O'Clock
| this morning. just at about dawn.
At the Rock Island general offices here
| information was received that the engine,
| baggage car, mail car and one coach of
| northbound passenger train No. y are
| buried in the bed of the CimmarrOn riv-
er as a result of the wreck just south
of Dover, Okla.
The smoker is partly in the river,
! Two Pullmans. a chair car and Il coach,
| on the track.
The engineer, fireman, express messen-
| ger and postal clerks escaped from the
! river. The officers are unable to state
! how many passengers were in the coach
and whether any escaped.