The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-02

| ~ uses ana Dumps one woman, now
ever, was suffering with a broken leg
ana was unable to walk while an in
| rant child who was with her was un-
injured. One old lady who was SO bad
very plucky all through the rescue work
| and would not allow any of the res
| cuers to help Eer
The injuries We're confined to the peo-
| PIE IN the foremost cars. Nobody on
! the Pullman cars was injured beyond a
| rev pumps. 1t was only those who were
IN the chair cars who were injured.
Inc passengers on No. 80 were not
| injured in the least from the collision
Several, however, were badly burned in
lheir heroic work of rescuing the un-
fortunate victims of the illfated train.
Scarcely Felt i'm PIIllmans.
The passengers on No. % outside of
the chair cars, were uninjured and We're
scarcely aware. of the accident at all.
ing man and makes Kansas City his
headquarters, was in the foremost Pull
man on the train. To a State Journal
reporter he described his connection
with the wreck: Il was asleep in the
Pullman and did not feel the effects of
the collision at all. 1 felt slight jar,
however. a minute later as the emer-
gency brakes were. applied and as I
went to raise my head 1 bumped it
against the side of the car. That was
the extent of my injury and no one in
the car in which I was asleep, was in
1ured beyond that"
Operator Lynes Talks.
John Lynes the operator who let
the Inflated Rock Island train No. 29
pass his station to meet No. 80 on
single track, said when questioned at
the Alma jail today:
THE order to hold 20 came too
late-after the train had backed onto
the main line, after passing IA. 1
ran out and tried to stop the train.
my lantern. The lantern went out.
and I grabbed another lantern which
belong to a farmer and waved it, but
it went out also.
Knowing that the train had got
away from me and that a wreck was
certain. 1 notified the dispatcher and
ran away. 1 was scared badly, and ran
to the house of a farmer three miles
from Volland. From his house 1 tele-
phoned the dispatcher in Topeka that
| would come in and give myself up"
The operator evidently intended to
give himself up, but changed his mind
before reaching Alma. He was riding in
a wagon with a farmer, and when near
Alma jumped out and hid in the brush.
Alma, and they went out and surround.
ed Lynes, who is now held in the Alma
tail.
Mexican Dies at Hospital.
One OF the eight Mexican laborers
who were brought to Stormont hospital
taken to the ward. Another, who had a
compound fracture of the leg a badly
bruised head and internal injuries, will
be operated upon for the removal of the
injured leg.
-Four white persons two women and
two children, were brought in at the
tally injured. One woman. Mrs. P.
Cripe, of Mcpherson, is suffering from
internal injuries caused by being crush
ed between two seats in the wrecked
man. whose na ne could not be learned.
Her injuries consist of cuts and scratch
es about the head and face. Her two
children are injured in a like manner, !
none of them seriously.
Mr.. Cripe, husband of the injured
woman, is waiting around the hospital
trying to get the physicians to take |
care of his wife, but at noon they were |
too busy with the more seriously injur- |
ed Mexicans to make more than a gen. |
eral examination. Mr.. Cripe said:
MY wife and I were riding in the
several seats behind her, and on the /
opposite side of the car. 1 saw her /
pinned under two seats, and tore them
Then came back and helped some men /
take out another woman and some /
Although they We're very
bloody about the face. they were not
them out when the car caught fire from
the car in front, which was burning
when 1 first reached the outside.
THAT smoker was chock-full Of Mex
cans. I went in there to smoke a
cigar just a few minutes before the
wreck, and had been in the chair car
A short time when we hit the other
train.
ut looked to me like lot more peo-
pie were hurt than what We're brought
1own here, and l haven't the least idea
now many were killed. The smoker
was burned so quickly that nearly all
If the Mexicans We're burned up and
here is a big chance that some of them
we're not dead when the fire got them.
Of no 3
We were in. 1t was chair car No. 634.
Il wish these doctors would do some
hing for my wife. doctor looked at
Ter when we first got here, and said
hone of her ribs were broken, but she
S certainly hurt"
The enginees and firemen of both
rains jumped and escaped, just as the
engines came together Engineer Nc | !
Mahon and Fireman Brown of No. 80
ind Engineer Slater and Fireman ,
Sweeney of No. 20 were the crews.
None of the passengers on No. 80
we're killed, but several were severely ]
leavy. In the smoker 25 Mexican
aborers were all killed or injured.
Twelve bodies have been recovered
rom this car and the others were
rage car, smoker, two chair cars and
me tourist sleeper of No. 29 were burn J
d. The fire started either in the baggage
ar or smoker, which were telescoped,
md spread rapidly to the chair cars
md sleeper.
The twelve bodies recovered from the !
wreck have been brought to Alma, and
re on the station platform.
John Lynes, the operator at Volland, l
Who fled from his office after sending in I
telegram to the effect that % had passed {
las been captured by farmers near
and is being brought in to the {
ounty Jail at Alma by his captors.
G. H. Dauchy, the assistant engineer. :
rho was badly injured in the wreck.
) the son of w. E. Dauchy, formerly of r
'opeka and who was once chief engi- r
eer of the Rock Island system. I