Mexico Missouri message., 1909-07-29
SEVEN LIVES LOST, THREE IA
TALLY INJURED AND MANY
ARE HURT.
CARS TELESCOPE SAVES MANI
Wabash Passenger From Kansas City
to st. Louis Wrecked Near orriek
Eight Mall Clerks Saved by
Swimming to Shore.

lHllly ulJuIeu, lulNS pOihopo h"'"'Si
is the result Of the wreck of Wabash
passenger train No. 4, when It plunged
into the Missouri river 30 miles east
OF here last night.
The dead:
Charles Flowers, engineer, Kansas
City.
Louis Bond, fireman, Moberly Mo-
Harry Eckert, baggageman, St.
Louis.
Daniel, two-year-old son Of e. T.
King, Eldon, Mo.
Charles Anthony, laboTer.
Jesse Oldham, laborer.
w. c. Turner, Moberly, Mo.
Seriously injured:
Frank Gardner, Mount Vernon, o.
Mrs. s. s. Hackett, Orrick, Mo.
Miss Irene Dorton, Orrick, Mo.
Among those injured, who are ex'
pected to recover, are:
P. w. Saathoff, St. Louis, cut about
the head, and side bruised.
Peter Nau, Cleveland, o., head
bruised and arm dislocated.
Jacob Steinfeld, Cleveland, o., Sc
we're blow on head.
George Metcalf, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
collar bone broken.
f. l.. Coles, Nashville, Tenn, left
shoulder sprained.
Mrs: c. Trupp, Dayton, o., side and
back injured.
Grover Young, Pana, ILL.,, back
wrenched.
Engine and Five Cars In River.
The train left Kansas City at 3
o'clock at night, and was due in st.
Louis ten hours later. OF the eight
cars which made up the train, five and
the engine are now in the river with
the water covering all of them except
one end of the Des Moines sleeper. A
dead head Pullman. mail, baggage, day
coach and sleeper followed the engine
into the stream. The chair car and
two Pullmans alone remained unin-
jured.
At the scene of the wreck the river
makes a bend, and the railroad follows
it. For days the Good waters have
been undermining the roadbed, MAX
ing 1t too weak to hold up the heavy
trains. Three hours before the wreck
a freight train OF As loaded cars
passed the point safely. Three hours
later No. started across the same bit
of track. Fifty feet of the roadbed
suddenly collapsed, and engine and
cars piled one on the other in the
water.
The train was running II miles an
hour, but the telescoping of the for
ward cars allowed the three rear cars
to stop so gradually that their occu-
pants were hardly shaken.
Mall Clerks Have Narrow Escape.
Eight mail clerks were saved only
by the fact that the roof of their car
was torn off and allowed them to get
out on top of the car and swim for the
shore None escaped injury.
In the Des Moines sleeper e. T..
King was holding his little son when
the crash came. The child was in
stantly killed and Mr.. King was un-
conscious when found.
DR.. Turner Lohbeck, a woman ply
stefan of st. Louis, was the heroine
of the wreck, according to railroad Of
flcials and passengers. In thirty min
utes she gave temporary treatment to
81 injured persons, several women
passengers assisting her by preparing
bandages.
at seemed to me every woman tore
up her skirts for dressings" said DR..
Lohveck Clothing was freely given
by the uninjured, and many emptied
their baggage of wearing apparel. The
eight mail clerks refused treatment
until all the passengers were attended
| to.
"Soon after all the injured had been
given temporary attention, relief
came"
The engine Of local freight train
which was just behind the wrecked
passenger train was attached to the
three intact cars of the Inflated train,
and all the passengers hurried to
Kansas City. Thirty-one Of the in
iured are now in a hospital here.
Almost an acre Of ground surround
ing the scene of the wreck crumbled
into the river and a large part of the
big stream is flowing over the ground
formerly covered by the roadbed It
will be necessary to build almost a
quarter of a mile of track around the
washout.