Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
TWELVE
WERE BURNED TO
DEATH IN WRECK
Helpless Passengers Trapped in
Burning Tourist Car Are
Cremated

TRENTON, MO. Dec. 31.4IfiprisoffezN
in a tourist sleeping car and burned
death is believed TO be the fate Of pc .
haps twelve passengers on the wefSS&
bound California special on the Chico
Rock Island Pacific railroad u
miles east of Trenton today. The n
Der of victims may be larger, butt
facts will not be known till the deN5&
of the car has been searched.
Fireman Q. p. Lininger, Trenton, VIZ
burned to death, and the bodies o.
three unidentified passengers nave been
recovered. The injured: Engineer w. L.
Wilmington, Trenton, scalded, will re-
cover; William Flynn, agent Cudahy
Packing Company. Kansas City, Shout
der broken, cut about headi ]. 2. Orn-
ing, Davenport, Ia. leg broken, head
cut; Steve Howard, Alabama twon't tell
town. leg broken; G. E. Spencer,
Dallas, Tex, back s%prained; ]. c. Chill
ders, Anderson, Ind, sprains and
bruises; Mrs. Nancy Hamershley.
Let's, Ia, badly hurt about head, may
die; Julius Meddlesome, Boston, Mass,
slight; David Siegel, Cleveland o..
probably fatal.
The train was derailed while passing
through a stretch of Recovered coun-
try at high speed. The huge engine, a
standard Pullman sleeper and the tour
list sleeper caught fire and were des-
troyed and a portion of the chair car
was burned.
At noon the bodies of Fireman Lin
niger and two women had been 9
covered. All h passengers in the
burned Pullman escaped unhurt
cept for bruises and slight cuts.
The number of those who lost heir
lives in the tourist ear is in doubt.
None is known to nave escaped from
this car and it is believed all of its
passengers were cremated.
The wreck occurred without a mo-
ment's warning to the passengers and
by the time they had realized wha
was happening the three cars were in
flames. Happening as it did. in an
isolated spot, there was no aid at hand
save that available in the train.
Those passengers and members of the
crew who escaped injury Immediately
went to work to aid the injured. Many
were dragged from the chair car, while
those in the burning Pullman generally
| cSCdDCd hildoSiEtt9s II ot1~ tiiot
tackled the tourist sleeper burned fierce
ly, forcing back the ~rescuers, and thew
stood by in the ice and sn1-. .5oster1ess
to render aid.
The cause OF the wreck is not known.
The engine suddenly jumped the rack,
n ploughing through the roadbed,
landed upside down fifty feet from the
tracks. Following closely came the mali
and baggage cars. These two cars
doubled ahead past the engine. Both
were badly smashed. Back OF these
cars came a chair car. a tourist sleeper,
two standard Pullman sleepers and an
observation car.
When the chair car, the tourist a
and the first of the Pullman sleepers
reached a point opposite the disabled
engine they left the tracks and piled
up. These at once caught fire from the
engine. The second standard sleeper
and the observation car were 1prac-
ticaily unchanged.
The tourist and the first Pullman
were soon reduced to a pile OF twisted
iron n ashes. Passengers expressed
the belief that the destroyed tourist
car held the bodies of perhaps a dozen
or more parsons. The injured were
hurried to Trenton and given frst aid
at tbs local hotel. later being trans
ferred to Kansas City.
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