The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-07-30
TRAIN NO. q WRECKED
Six Persons Killed and Thirty-nine
Injured, Some Seriously.
FOUR MONTGOMERY MEN HURT
Embankment Undermined by Missouri
River and Train Slides into
the Water.

Awashout made by the recent
floods which had washed away
practically all the support of the
tracks, caused a part of Wa3ash
train No. 4, out of Kansas City,
to plunge into the Missouri river
at HulPs Point, Mo-, two miles
east of Orrick, ABOUT 1915 o'clock
Saturday night. Orrich is 80 miles
east OF Kansas City.
Seven Were killed and 80 injured,
some seriously.
The engine, baggage, mail and
express cars went in the river,
and were almost entirely covered
oy water. The bodies of the en-
gineer and fireman, baggage
man and oaby were buried in
the wreckage.
The train, consisting of engine
and nine coaches, left Kansas City
for st. Louis at o'clock Satur'
day night, in charge of Conductor
w. M. Frye of st. Louis.
RIVER ATE BANK AWAY.
The train was running at the
speed OF 35 miles an hour when it
reached the line OF track, quar-
ter of mile in extent, which had
been undermined and washed
away by the Missouri river. Into
this space the train suddenly
plunged, though passengers say
that they felt the shock of the
grinding brakes, At the point
where the derailment occurred,
the track is practically straight
and the river makes no percepti-
Die curve.
The river had eaten its way so
feet beyond the inmost rail, and
no vestige of track remained Wis
IDLE. When the engine struck the
water it hurled itself forward,
carrying the baggage and mail
car and sleeper with it. The !oag-
gage car crashed on top of the
engine, and the two were forced
oeneath the water, the engine be-
meath the water, the engine being
ing completely submerged and the
baggage car standing on end in
the water. The mail car over
turned in the water, and the clerks
were forced to CLIMB over the
wreckage before they could get
to safety. Every one of them was
injured in some degree by the
| shock.
ESCAPE FROM DEATH
MIRACULOUS.
city early Sunday morning and
caused much alarm, as four of the
mail clerks on No. 4 were Mont.
gomery men-Messrs. Chas. Gar
ner, Harry E. Ball, A. H. White
side and c. E. Vandiver-and their
families reside here. Word was
soon received oy wire that while
all of them were scratched and
Bruised, none OF them were fatal
| iy injured.
sour escape from death was
simply miraculous" said Miss Ma
mie Donnelly of Mexico, Mo-, TO a
reporter. 81 was holding my lit
tie niece, Mary, years old, in
my lop, when suddenly a feeling
pass through me similar to that
one 4, lis when riding chute the
chutes, then came a terrible jai
and Mary was thrown clear ou,
OF my arms, and her little head
struck the roof OF the car.
caught her dress and she fell bach
On me. We were Doth scratched 6
little, but outside of the jar Were
not hurt"
L. c. Smith of Richmond, Va.
who with his wife was returning
!. from the Seattle fair, was one O.
: the first to go to the rescue O
the injured in the smoker.
: "The escape of the mail clerk
was nothing less than miracle,
declared Mr.. Smith. "Their ca
landed on top of the submerged
engine and this aided their es
cape. The roof of this car wa
3roken, and they managed t.
: crawl out and swim to shore. W.
I had 20 provide them with dry gar
r ments. I gave them almost every
thing had in my suit case. l
was not time to think of your
:, self.
"lhe shock, as the engine an
its trailing cars went over the EN-
oankment, threw most of us t
the floor. When We managed t
Q get out of the car could find n
;, trace Of the engine. The oaggag
8 and mail car was resting upon
in The stream"
MEN AND WOMEN FOUGHT
HEROICALL1
y Men and women fought agains
!, the waters of the Missouri rive
: in their efforts to escape, or
there was no brutality, no selfish
ness in the desire for sefety. Ey
= cry one seemed to oe thinking {
!, some one else, every one SCENE
q filled with the desire to do what
ever possible to aid those VIII