The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-26

Kansas ClIN, july LO.-CiN lives lOSL ana
thirty-six persons injured, three perhaps
fatally, is the result Of the wreck Of Wa
bash passenger train No. 4, when il
plunged into the Missouri river, thirty
miles east Of here, last night.
The Dead.
Charles Flowers. engineer. Kansas City.
Louis Bond. fireman, MOberley, Mo.
Harry Eckert baggageman, st. Louis.
Daniel, 2-year-Old son of f. T. King.
EldOu, Mo.
Charles Anthony laborer-
Jesse Oldham, labOrer.
Seriously Injured.
Mrs. c. f. Moore of Pueblo. Colo; suf-
fered internal injuries, but will recover.
Frank Gardner, Mt. Vernon, o.
Mrs. S. S. Hackett, OTrick, Mo.
Miss Irene Dorton. OTrick, Mo.
Five Cars in River.
The train left Kansas City at 9 o'clock
Saturday 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 COW
eTing all of them except one end of the
Des Moines sleeper. \ deadhead Pull
man, mail, baggage, day coach and
sleeper followed the engine into the
stream. The chair car and two Pullmans
also remained uninjured.
Bridge Undermined.
At the scene of the wreck the river
makes bend and the railroad follows
il. For days the flood waters have been
undermining the roadbed, making It TOO
weak to hold up the heavy trains. Three
hours before the wreck a freight train
of forty-five loaded cars passed the point
safely. Three hours later No. 4 started
/ across the same bit of track. Fifty feet
I of the roadbed suddenly collapsed, ana
| the engine and cars piled one upon the
other in the water.
The train was running fourteen miles
an hour, but the telescoping of the for
ward cars allowed the three rear cars
to stop SO gradually that their occupants
were hardly shaken
Escape of Mail Clerks.
Eight mail clerks were saved only by
/ the fact that the roof of their cars was
torn off and allowed them to get out
/ on top of the car and swim for the shore.
I None escaped injury
/ In the Des MOines sleeper Z. 7. King
was holding his little son when the crash
came The child was instantly killed and
Mr. King was unconscious when found.
Heroine of the Wreck.
/ Dr. Turner Lohveck, a woman ply
sician of St. Louis, was the heroine of the
wreck. according to railroad officials and
/ pa ssengers. In thirty minutes she gave
] temporary treatment 10 the twenty-seven
injured persons, several women passen-
/ gers assisting her by preparing DdnQdSes-
/ 1T seemed to me that every woman
there tore up her skirts for dressings"
{ said DR.. Lohveck. Everything was free
/ ly given by the uninjured and many emp
/ tied 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 tenn
! pOrary attention, relief came.
Thirty-one in Hospital.
The engine of a local freight train
which was just behind the wrecked pas
| senger train was attached to the three
intact cars of the Inflated train and all
| the passengers hurried to Kansas City.
/ Thirty-one of the injured are now in a
hospital here
This afternoon almost an acre of ground
surrounding the scene of the wreck crum-
bled into the river and tonight a large
part of the big stream is flowing over
/ the ground formerly covered by tie road
[ bed. 1t viii be necessary to build almost
quarter of a mile Of track around the
/ vvaSbouf