The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-02

David Parrish Of Excelsior Springs,
engineer.
The Injured
Elmer Moss. Excelsior Springs. bag.
gageman. bruised about the head;
may be internally injured.
Miss Edith Larkins, Kansas City,
address not known: struck on the
mead and made temporarily uncon.
scious; will recover.
II. $. Fox, bartender in saloon at
sos Delaware Street. Kansas City;
one arm bruised and sprained
Kansas City Mo, July l.--One man
was killed and two other persons SO
verely injured when westbound Ex-
celsior Springs passenger train and
an eastbound freight collided on the
Wabash railroad near Missouri City
AT o'clock last night Seventy-nvc
passengers owe their safety II not
their lives 20 the presence Of nina
of Mrs lC. j. Luellcn, wife Of a miner.
give the engineers an opportunity to
reverse power and lessen the impact
when the locomotives came together.
Three hundred yards west of the
Wabash station at Missouri City the
railroad operates coal mine and
chutes. where engines are supplied.
\ frame chute extends over the
tracks at this point.
The passenger train had left the
station and was approaching the coal
chutes. Mrs Iuellen from a knoll a
hundred feet away observed the pas.
senger train and also the freight com.
ing in the opposite direction. Before
either engineer was aware of the dan.
ger the woman ran with great speed
TO the tracks and waived warning
Both engineers acted instantly. but
too late to prevent the collision.
David Parrish. q Wabash engineer
who lives in Excelsior Springs, was
riding In the baggage car. When the
power was reversed Parrish went 10
the side door of the car and peered
out. As he did this the engines came
together the Jolt throwing tile door
shut an dstriking the engineer In the
neck. he was killed almost instantly
Elmer Moss. the bagEageman. was
bruised about the head and may be
internally injured, and Miss Edith
Larkins Of Kansas City was struck on
the head aud rendered unconscious.
She partly recovered consciousness
later, however. Her address was not
learned
\ misunderstanding Of train orders
is said to have been the cause OF the
wreck, although, A. the Wabash Office
in West Bottoms last night 1t was
said that this had not been determined
definitely.
when word was dispatched to Kan.
sas City that the wreck had occurred,
arrangements were Immediately be
gun TO send a relief train 70 Missouri
II was fully an hour before this train
was made up and when finally n loco.
motive and three cars were in read
mess the train left without the ply
siciauS, who had been called 10 At
tend the injured. At this time the
oN'ont OF the damage was not known
but it af'erward was learned that the
physicians in Missouri city were able
To handle the case,
Al the Union depot there were
many anxious husbands, waiting tC
meet the Excelsior Springs train. The
fact that there had been a wreck wa,
reported about and those who hac
relatives on tho wrecked train went
to the Wabash yards and begged tC
be- taken aboard the relief. THE con
suctor refused passage TO everyone
md finally the anxious ones went tC
the dispatchcr's once and secured
permission from the superintendent
a. Mohcrly ny the time the telc
graph order was written the relic
rain was pulling out.