Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-07-16
IN MIDDLE WEST;
SANTA FE TRAIN UPSET
Coaches in Eighteen Feet of Water
at Pomona, kansaS-Chlcago
Child browns.
300 ARE RESCUED IN BOATS
Unprecedented Rains Swell River
and Do Great Damage in
Missouri Valley.

Weakened by excessive rains ano
covered with water TO a depth OF Two
feet, the road of the Santa Fe line,
one-half mile east of Pomona, Kan,
gave way under the we%ht of the sec
ond section Of west-bound passenger
train No. 5 at 3 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. Three coaches turned tur-
tie on the right of the embankment
and now lie in eighteen feet of water.
The 4-year-old daughter Of Mrs. Car
RE Rose of Chicago was drowned. Two
of the 300 passengers on the train
were injured.
Coaches TopIIed over.
The train had been detoured from
the main line to the Emporia cutoff
to avoid a flood blockade and encoun-
tered rising water a mile from Pomo-
ma. A stop was made to examine the
track and the train slowly entered the
flood. Half the distance to the depot
had been traversed when the baggage
car left the rails. The smoking car
and the day coach followed, turned
from the rails and slipped gradually
| over the embankment and down lnto
! eighteen feet of water that filled the
slough at the side of the roadbed. The
turn was made so slowly, however,
that the passengers, previously warned
of the dangers of the track, succeeded
in gaining the tops of the coaches that
still stood upright in the flood.
A relief train from Ottawa came in
sight through the rising waters at 3
o'clock, but was compelled to return
for additional boats and coils Of cope
to steady the boats against the swift
current. -Four boats, manned by eX-
pert crews, took the passengers off
Homes were found for all the refugees
at the farm houses and in the village
Of Pomona.
Boat IL Swept Away.
One of the first of three boat to
reach the spot was caught in the
wreckage and lost. The rescue train
on it's second trip plowed through two
feet of water for th~ree-quarters of a
mile before it reached the point from
which the boats were launched.
In P%attonsburg, Mo, the dead are
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Harrison Walker, a section man, and
D. Bower and wife, e. c. Nelson, a gro
Gerry clerk and a man named Scott are
missing. During the morning a call
for aid was sent out from ~Pattonsburg,
q town of 1000 in Davies County,
which was reported under seven to
ten feet of water, and relief trains
were made up at st. Joseph and Kan
sas City.
A dispatch from Santa Rosa, Mo.
stated that the st. Joseph relief train
was marooned between that place and
P~attonsburg. Teh water had gone uI
until it was two feet over the track
Two Kansas City boats which started
from Pattonsburg to the train are
missing. But one St. Joseph boat got
through. The engine whiStled al
night to guide the boatmen.
The worst flood of the year is raging
in the Des Moines River Valley. The
I river has reached the fourteen foot
mark and threatens to go higher
Thousands of dollars worth of corr
has been swept away. Residences il
the southern part of the city Of Des
Moines were surrounded by a foot Of
water. Every railroad running trains
into Des Moines is hours late.