Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-12-31
TWO TRAIN
DISASTERS
Spencer Trask, Prominent
Banker and Philanthropist
Among Dead
TELESCOPED
California Special of Rock Island
Meets With Terrible
Accident.

New York, Dec. 31.-Spencer
Trask one of the best known bank
ers of this country, met death today
in rear end collision on the New
York Central railroad at Croton, New
York, in which one other passenger
was probably fatally injured. The
negro porter was also badly hurt and
several others injured. some fatally.
AIR. Trask and other victims of the
wreck We're in the rear sleeper of the
second section of the Montreal Ex-
press which had been halted by a
signal. when a freight crashed into it,
telescoping the sleeper There was a
thick fog at the time. The casualties
for the most part were in the smok-
ing compartment, where a group of
passengers gathered as the train pro,
ceeded down the river. MI Trask
was director of many railroads and
realty companies and was deeply in
terested in several educational and
philanthropic societies. Several
ago he bought and reorganized the
New York Times.
A Train Holocaust.
Trenton, Mo, Dec. 31.-West bound
passenger train number 3, on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific,
known as the California special, was
derailed three miles east of Trenton
this morning. All cars were over
turned and the train caught fire. Two
Pullman cars burned so furiously that
it was impossible to extricate the
passengers and it is believed a mum
Der burned to death.
The train is one of the heaviest and
finest in the Rock Islands service. II
IS what is known in summer as the
Golden State Limited. The train left
Chicago at nine on Thursday night.
The cause of the accident is not
known. The train was running at
high speed. A heavy engine jumped
the track and landed fifty feet off thq
right of way. The cars followine
tumbled over and Two Pullman imme-
diately caught fre.N
Imprisoned and Incinerated.
Trenton, Mo, Dec, 31.-Imprisoned
in a tourist sleeper and burned to
death is believed to have been the
fate of perhaps twelve passengers on
the California Special west bound on
the Rock Island road three miles
west Of Trenton this morning. Tn
number of victims may be larger, but
the facts will not be known until the
debris is searched. The train was
derailed while travelling at a Ugh
speed. A huge engine jumped the
track, and the standard Pullman
sleeper and the tourist sleeper were
burned A portion of the chair car
was also burned. At noon three bod.
les, those Of the fireman. o. P. Linin-
ger, of Eldon, Iowa, and two uniden-
titled women had been recovered.
Llnlnger was scalded and burned to
death under the engine. Nine per-
sons were injured. The two fatally in
Jured are Engineer w. l. MilIngton,
of Trenton, scalded; William Flynn,
agent of the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, Kansas City, shoulder broken
and cut about the head; J. q. Orning.
OF Davenport, Iowa, leg broken and
head cut; Steve Howard of Alabama,
leg broken; c. f. Spencer, Dallas,
Texas, back sprained. J. C. Childers
Ind, sprained and bruised.
Met Terrible Death,
Most of the injured were in chair
car. All passengers in the burned
Pullman escaped with bruises and
slight cuts, but not one of the passeng-
ers is known to have escaped from the
tourist sleeper and it's believed that
all were cremated. Before the STUN
ned passengers realized what happen
ed the cars were ablaze Those who
escaped injury, Immediately set to-.
work to aid the injured. Many were
vi dSESu llolIl lllS ClldII car, UuL the
flames that attacked the tourist car
burned so fiercely that the rescuers
were forced back and they stood by
while the unfortunate pas
sengers were burned to death.
The cause of the wreck is unknown.
The engine suddenly left the track
and plowing through the road bed
landed upside down fifty feet from
the tracks. The mail and baggage
cars were doubled and smashed to
pieces. When the chair and tourists
cars and the Pullmans reached a.
point opposite the engine, they left
the track, piled up and at once caught
OH fire from the engine and the tour
ist car and the finest Pullman were
soon reduced to pile of ashes and
twisted iron. The injured were hur-
ried to Trenton and given first aid,
and the latter were taken to Kansas
City, A complete list of the dead will