Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1909-07-30
.FR|GHIFUL WABASH WRECK.
WABASH PASSENGER TRAIN NO 4 GOES
INTO MISSOURI liver.
SEVEN KNOWN TO Be DEAD--THRTy- SEVEN ARE INJURED.


Work of recovering the bodies
of the engineer, fireman and the
baggagsman, which are known
to be buried under the wrecked !
train, will not be Gin for a day or
two, because of the fact that tn.
ground at the scene of the acci-
dent is likely to cave into the
river at any moment. So impend.
ing is this further cavr-in that
che sheriff of Ray county and q
force of deputies are on guard.
keeping the sight. .seers back
from the verge of the Glide.
A SECOND CAVE IN.
The engine of a freight train,
which was standing on the siding
at Excelsior Springs Junction,
was detached and hurried To tn
scene of the wreck. 1t was hitch
ed to the three care, two sleepers
and q coach, that renamed on
the track and pulled them to the
junction. No sooner had thes.
cars passed over q place 60
yards west of the wreck than
portion of the track 200 feet long
caved into the river. This las
cave.in is about 100 feet wide
and 80 feet deep. Had it occ1r-
red when the cars were passing
over it, it is like that eve:y per.
son aboard would have persisted.
For several hundred y q, de al 'ng
the track where the train went in.
to the river, the water had under
mined the riprap. The Missouri
river is almost bank full at this
point and the water ia running
like q mill race. Five hundred
laborers were Immediately dis
patched to the scene, and the
work of relaying the track on q
right -of.way 200 feet from the
| rivers edge began. The tra,k
which will be used only ten.
porsrilyiwas completed Monday
afternoon. It is q half mile long,
and laid through cornfield and
pasture.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
I One of the most iraculoue
things in connection with the
calamity is that all of the mail
clerks escaped with their lives
The mail car was completely
shattered, and its identity can
be established from nothing ex-
| cept the mail cases which pro.
trude from the water. The entire
itop of the car was torn off. This
enabled the clerks to get out ol
the car. They swan from the
river. After all of them were in
safety they sat on the bank anc
waited for emergency treatment
/ Passengers who were in tht
coaches that rem aimed on tht
track took off their clothing anc
gave it to the mail clerks. Th'
clerks were the last to recceiv'
emergency treatment. They in
sisted that the wounds of th,
passengers be dressed first.
The only Keytesville person
that was on the train was Mis-
Mamie Chapman,a 9 stenographer
in Kansas City, who was coming
to visit her parents, Mr.. an,
Mrs. NJ. P. Chapman, and was il
] the front end of the chair car
, She received cut over her lef
Q eye and had her right hand con
|, siderably scratched, Dot. was no
injured otherwise beyond beinl
Q terribly frightened and her cloth
3 ing saturated with water. Sh
;. was carried from the car out 9
Q the river by locomotive firema
" from Iowa, but whose name sh
a did not learn.
A delay of nearly 10 hours wa
caused by the wreck as No. 4 di
y not reach Keytesville until abou
y 10 o'clock Sunday mornin
. while it WAS due here at mid
+. night.