Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-26
TRAIN PLUNGES
INTO RIVER; SIX
PERSONS KILLED
WABASH R0ADBED NEAR KAN
SAS CITY COLLAPSES
LIST OF INJURED GIVEN AT SO;
THREE MAY DIE
Five Cars and Engine Hurled Into the
Water-Eight Mall Clerks Climb
Through Unroofed Coach
and Swim Ashore
(By Associated Press.)

II ANSAS CITY, July 25.-Six live:
IL were lost and thirty-six persons
injured, three perhaps fatally, II
the wreck of Wabash passenger train
No. 4, when it plunged into the Mis-
souri, river, thirty miles east of here
last night: The dead:
CHARLES FLOWER, engineer, Kansas
City.
LOUIS BOND, fireman, Moberly.
HARRY ECKERT, baggageman. st. Louis
DANIEL KING, years old, Eldon, Mo.
CHARLES ANTHONY, laborer.
JESSE OLDHAM. Iaborer.
The seriously injured are:
Mrs. G. +. Moore, Pueblo, Colo; suffered
internal injuries; will recover.
Frank Gardner, Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
Mrs. S. s. Hackett, Orrick, Mo.
Miss Irene Dorton, orrick, Mo.
The train left Kansas City at
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 covering all OF
them except one end of the Des
Moines sleeper. A deadhead Pullman,
mail car, baggage car, day coach and
a sleeper followed the engine into the
stream.
mained on the track.
At the scene of the wreck the river
makes a bend and the railroad follows
1t. For days the flood waters have
been undermining the roadbed.
Three hours before the wreck a
freight train of forty-five loaded cars
passed the point safely.
When No. started across the same
bit of track fifty feet of the roadbed
suddenly collapsed. The train was rum
ming fourteen miles an hour, but the
forward cars telescoped. allowing the
three rear cars to stop so gradually
that their occupants we're hardly
shaken.
Mail Clerks Swim
The roof of the mail ear was torn
off and eight mail clerks clambered
out and swan to shore.
In the Des Moines sleeper. 10. 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 Lohveck, woman physi-
clan of St. Louis, was the heroine or
the wreck, according to railroad Off
cials and passengers. In thirty min
utes she gave temporary treatment to
twenty-seven injured persons, several
woman passengers assisting her by
preparing bandages.
ut seems to me every woman there
tore up her skirts for dressings" said
DIR. Lohveck Everything was freely
given by the uninjured and many emp
tied their baggage of wearing apparel
The eight mail clerks refused treat
ment until all the passengers were at
tended 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 Kan
sas 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 crumbled into the river. and to-
night a large part of the big stream Is
flowing over the ground formerly COW
cred by the roadbed. 1t will be neces-
sary to build almost quarter or
mile of track around the washout.