Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-14
Rock Island Passenger
Derailed at Bar
ney, N. M.
FIVE KILLED OUTRIGHT
Same Train Met Disaster at
VoIIand---Many Rail
Accidents.

El PaSO, IeNaS, Jan. l4.-Hunnlng
at a high rate of speed, Rock Island
passenger train No. 30, which left here
at 6:3O in the evening for Chicago,
dashed into an open switch at Barney,
n. NJ, 1870 miles north Of Eel Paso, ear
ly yesterday morning. Five persons
were killed and eight injured, none
fatally.
When the train dashed into the
switch the engine left the track and
turned over, pinning the engineer and
fireman underneath and killing them
instantly. The express car, dining car
and a Pullman were thrown from the
track
The train wrecked was in collision
on Jan. at Volland, Kan. with No.
29 on the same road, and 80 persons,
mostly Mexican laborers on their way
to FL Paso, were killed. and over 80
persons were injured.
Railway Officials In Wreck.
FL Reno, Okla, Jan. IA special
train carrying Vice President II. u.
Nudge and party of Rock Island Of
ficials went into the ditch near Hydro,
Okla, late Saturday. No one was in
jured. The wreck was caused by
spreading rails.
Collision Due 10 Freight Wreck.
Pittsburg. Jan. 1.-THE Chicago ex-
press, eastbound, on the Pittsburg
Western branch of the Baltimore &
Ohio was in collision at Allison Park
yesterday with a heavy shifting en-
gine. Engineer Myers of Chicago juno
ton was killed and Fireman Lewis of
Chicago Junction fatally hurt. Several
passengers were slightly cut by brok-
en- glass. Eleven were shaken up but
none were seriously injured.
The collision was due to a freight
Fog Causes Collision.
Chicago. Jan. 14.-Seven people were
injured early today when an outward
bound train on the Monon railroad col
lided with a sleeper on the rear end
of a train on the Wabash road at One
and Twelfth street. The in
jured: Manuel Cook. indianapolis; Ed
ward Fersentham. Chicago; William
Morgan. Chicago; James Chancey, Ash.
land. Wis; w. +. Chapman. Louisville.
Ky; F. J. Spencer Chicago; John A.
Faulkner, Bay City, Mich. serious.
The accident was caused by the in.
ability of the trainmen TO discern sig
nails in a dense fog.
One In Utah.
Ogden, Utah, Jan. 14.-Passenger
No. l, wcstbound, on the Southern Pa
cific. was wrecked 10 miles west of
Moontello early today. Engineer Mes
ley was killed and a number of passen.
gers injured.
One Killed, Ten Hurt, ON Alton.
Bloomington, H., Jan. 14.-One man
was killed in a collision yesterday af-
-ernoon on the Chicago & Alton two
miles south of Bloomington. Two
freight engines with only their ca
Dooses met head on. Fireman James
Z. Fike of Bloomington was instantly
lilled. being decapitated Fireman c.
E. Cummings and Engineers Albert
Perry of Springfield and Frank Belz OF
Bloomington were seriously injured.
five other employees were injured. The
wreck was due TO a heavy fog.
PastOr Killed by Train.
Gilman, ILL.,, Jan. 1.-THE 18th prov
I'd a fatal day TO Rev. j. c. Blair,
Methodist minister of Clifton, who was
Walking to Ashkum on the Illinois Cen
raj tracks. Stepping from one track
o another to avoid freight train, he
vas struck by the Daylight Special and
instantly killed.
Missouri Pacific Train Wrecked.
Salina, Kan. Jan. 14.-Missouri Pa
,ific passenger train No. 3, Kansas TO
Pueblo. was wrecked four miles east
If Salina last night. Engineer Jake
Rose was crushed under his engine,
which turned over. No passengers
we're injured.