The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1907-01-11
Head.On C0iIisis ID Of PASSENGER
Trains on ] Rock IsIand
len WHICH M, AIN Y
Manysof ttesYictlnts Were Piuioned iiiS
the Wreckage and Their Bodies S.
We're Cremated Ia the
Plre Which Follow IS
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Thtrty-four psrsons, all Texicafia
but two, were k led and the bodies
Of 80 Mex xioana were tncineratA tAci CARLY
"Wednesday In a hea oii coliiBion
oWo paasenger trains OF the Ohicago,
Rook Island and Pacific RAILROAD neart
lVolland, Kansas. 4 The wreck oDosy-
red while both trains Weya runnsnp ON
g curve ina, cut whefas stho grade ygas
steep. 4.ly "a 5S IS. IS, ssg
AL the Killed were in The aou6Ifs
bound train except n tramp who yy,iss
on the baggage Car on the noPthb0I1li
train. This tramp "a negro mr. TAP
ana 9 workman accoudpa pan yitlg d gang
OF Mexican labOreSs were the only
Americans killed 80 FAR as known, al
though o passenger says that's woman
and q child were burned In a tourist
car. SJt@ l.s sss - slS
There were 80 Mexicans ana fiy0
Americans, composing q gang OF rail-.
road workers, In the smoking car of
the southbound train, or these, 80
Mexlc2ns we're burned In, Slie vyrank.
age and two died later. 6 g55is,
Most Of the iajaries were due to tIia
setbing OF the 0naergeno noY bra kea. M ts s
every pasbenger In the soutfibound
Grain was throWiiito the car floor by 5
the quick aetting of the bra kos. Tfe
northb0und train WIS running TO
miles an hour up grade. Il
The MexlcsnS were t,iniOned under
the seats and tho doors were jkI kIfinasd
so they could not got oua. ITls Tho
chair car, also, many passengera yssy
held down by the seats. & \!
The train caught DIRE from bIle gas
tanks Then came the cries FOR help
among the sMexiDans ia the snaOkinN
CIR and the people pinioned fast In tIia
CHAIR, car. Eyery man or aon1AIs Con
Che train tried 80 reseus tho sun forGsi
nateg. but this flames room beCanues
too hot to permit Of pYoashine the
car, IS, ~ VI a.
b The injured ysts removed iSoisa ii
,chair oars With less a alificulty aiaa 81
parensly Sii were rescued aliye Sroai
Those CAss 4 w ss isS
aSa sue, C9aduoeof lUs as.t 1,
aou uthh0uud trsin, mas s broken con
bone and Sia much brui led about the
face, He said S, ss
Ths train Was Just pulling olasY of
the Volland ysrds and was. travallinQ
about 80 miles a4 hour ! droppBd
into the frontseatcf the siao olxeS: end
dozed. 81 I. 3 q
There were / Mexlcans Sitting t,ygos
In 8 seat back OF me. also Link, al ika.s
terpreter, q foreman and five paS6ls
fares.
"Twas awakened by tna set fling OF {
the brakes. / Jumped head flrhb out
n tho x-1tt,1noy on1 ot.x AIe
shoulder S s.
When turned and lc,,SI ;s,, oT-a al. 40
G%ain / saw famepl H. ~, ~ AsSS'feef Gigsi
frog3 the arnoker. sg<
Tho foremost tourist sleeping oar C)g
the southbound train also burned bnE
all the occupants escaped serious 4 In.
jury. .ss
John Lynes, 10 years old, telegraph
operator at Volland who let the gou chs
bound train get by his STATION, where
IL was to pas tho northbound train
gave the following ststement b4fore!
being taken to j&il:
l had been awake eli night and
was sober. At about 4or O'clock.
this morning the train dispatcheY gave.
me four orders; one was for the souEfss
bound train to meet two trains aS
| Volland instead OF at Alta Yista as
previously arranged, The aoutht onnd.
train headed into aaWitoh and let o,ae
train pass. backed out OF ths sWitoti,
and headed down the main limo With.
out waiting for the other Gsain. 4
Thought 1T was going to ATOP TO take
water, as trains have bean doing but
instead ID went by at about l0 miles
an hour. The southbound hoard a sa
st danger according to the lever in
the cfiice, but the train did not ssop, s
and ran out with my lantern. but
with two swings aoross the track ST
went Out. 1 then ran to tha pump
house. grabbing the pumper'a lantern,
waved a few times and Is also went
out. went back and told the ala.
patcher that the sorthbound train
went by and we waited TO aee 5if Ii waa
going, to come back or hit tho norhh.
bound train. / told the dispatcher
that / was coming to Topeka and was
trying to- got there when arrested. 4,
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