The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-07-29
SEVEN LIVES LOST, THREE IA.
TALLY INJURED AND MANY
ARE HURT.
CARS TELESCOPE SAVES MANY
Wabash Passenger From Kansas City
10 st. Louis Wrecked Near Orrick
Eight Mail Clerks Saved by
Swimming TO Shore.

Kansas City-Seycn lives lost
| thirty injured. three perhaps fatally
Is the result Of the wreck OF Wabash
passenger train No 4, when 1t plunged
into the Missouri river 80 miles east
o here last night.
The dead:
Charles Flowers. engineer. Kansas
| CITY
Louis Rond, fireman. Mobcrly, Mo.
Harry Eckort, baggageman, St
Louis.
Daniel twoyear.old son OF e T.
/ King Eldon. Mo.
Charles Anthony. laborer.
lessee oldham laborer
rs C. Turner. Mobcrly. Mo.
s.r.ously injured:
Frank Gardner Mount Vernon, o.
Mrs s s. Hackctt Orrick. Mo,
,ii.a Irene Dorton. Orrick. Mo.
Among those injured, who are OK.
r.r'ud to recover. are:
p ". Saathoff. St Louis. cut about
II. head. and side bruised.
potter Nau, Cleveland, O.. head
t..s.d and arm dislocatcd.
Jacob Stoinfeld, Cleveland, o., Sc
y,. blow on head
George Metcalf Cedar Rapids, Ia.
collar bone broken
r. l.. Coles, Nashville, Tenn, LETT
nllur spralned
Mrs C. Trupp, Dayton, O., side and
ha.t injured.
Grover Young, Pana, H., back
w..nchod
Engine and Five Cars In River,
The train loft Kansas City at .
O'Clock at nisht. and was due in ST.
Louis ten hours later. OF the eight
cars which made up the train, five and
'la engine are now in the river with
th- water covering all OF them except
Oh. end Of the Dcs MONIES sleeper. A
dead head Pullman mail. baggage, day
coach and sleeper followed the engine
Il'u the stream. The chair car and
two Pullmans alone remained unin-
jared.
At the scene Of the wreck the river
makes n bend. and the railroad follows
It For days N" food waters have
been undermining the roadbcd max
Ing 1t too weak to hold up the heavy
trains Three hours before the wreck
freight train Of IS loaded cars
passed the noint safely Three hours
later 80. 4 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 Il miles an
hour. but the tclcscoping of the for
ward cars allowed the three rear cars
TO stop so gradually that their ocCu.
pants were hardly shaken
Mail Clerks Have Narrow Escape.
Eight mail clerks were saved only
by the fact that the roof Of their car
was torn of and allowed them to get
out on top OF the car and swim for the
shore None escaped injury.
In the Dcs Moincs sleeper f. T.
King was holding his little son when
the crash came The child was IN.
stantly killed and Mr. King was IN.
conscious when found
DR.. Turner Lohbeck, a woman ply.
stefan Of St Louis, was the heroine
Of the wreck, according to railroad Of.
hcials and passengers In thirty min
ltcs she gave temporary treatment to
q injured persons. several women
assisting her by preparing
Dandagcs
1T seemed 10 me every woman tore
~ her skirts for dressings said Dr..
ohvcck. Clothing was freely given
~ the uninjured and many cmptied
heir baggage of wearing apparel The
light mail clerks refused treatment
Until all the passengers were attended ,
o.
soon after all the injured had been
iven temporary attention, relief ,
anne" {
The engine of local freight train
which was just behind the wrecked t
lldlu was diidNlitd W ltlt
hree intact cars OF the Inflated train, !
nd all the passengers hurried to .
.ansas City. Thirty-one Of the In Y
ired are now in a hospital here. /
Almost an acre Of ground surround.
~ the scene of the wreck crumbled
ITO the river and large part of the
liz stream is flowing over the ground
covered by the roadbed. 1t Il
i'll be necessary to build almost a b
larter OF q mile Of track around the e
ashout. b