Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-29
CARS TELESCOPE SAVES MANY
Wabash Passenger From Kansas City
to St. Louis Wrecked Near Orrick
Eight Mall Clerks Saved by
Swimming to Shore.

Of here last night.
The dead:
Charles Flowers, engineer, Kansas
City.
Louis Bond, fireman, Moberly, Mo.
Harry Eckcrt, baggageman, st.
Louis.
Daniel, two.year.old son Of E. T.
King, Eldon, Mo.
Charles Anthony, laborer.
Jesse Oldham, laborer.
w. C. Turner, Moberly, Mo.
Seriously injured:
Frank Gardner. Mount Vernon. o.
Mrs. s. S. Hackott. Orrick. Mo.
Miss Irene Dorton. Orrick. Mo.
Among those injured, who are ex.
pected to recover, are:
p. W. Saathoff, 81. Louis, cut about
the head, and side bruised.
Peter Nan, Cleveland, O.. head
bruised and arm dislocatcd.
Jacob Steinfeld, Cleveland, o.. &C.
we're blow on head.
George Metcalf, Cedar Rapids, Ia,
collar DOnp DTOkPn.
f. L. Coles, Nashville, Tenn, left
shoulder %sprained.
Mrs. C. Trupp, Dayton. O., side and
back injured.
Grover Young, Pana, Ill.,. back
wrenched.
Enaine and Five Cars In River.
The train left Kansas City at 9
o'clock at night. and was due in st.
Louis ten hours later. OF the eight
cars which made up the train. five and
the engine are now In the river with
the Nater covering all Of them except
one end Of the Des Moines sleeper. A
dead head Pullman. mail. baggage, day
coach and sleeper followed the engine
into the stream. The chair car and
two Pullmans alone remained unin.
jurcd.
At the scene of the wreck the river
makes a bend, and the railroad follows
It. For days the food waters have
been undermining the roadbed, max
ing II too weak to hold up the heavy
trains. Three hours before the wreck
a freight train OF AS loaded cars
passed the po!It safely. Three hours
later No. 4 started across the same bit
OF track. Fifty feet OF the roadbed
suddenly collapsed, and engine and
cars piled n on the other In the
water.
The train was running II miles al
hour, but the telescoping of the for
ward cars allowed the three rear cars
to stop so gradually that their occu-
pants were hardly shaken.
Mail Clerks Have Narrow Escape.
Eight mail clerks were saved only
by the fact that the roof Of their car
was torn of and allowed them to get
out on top Of the car and swim for the
shore. None escaped injury.
In the Des Moines sleeper e. T.
King was holding his little son when
the crash came. The child was in
stantly killed and Mr.. King was un-
conscious when found.
DR.. Turner Lohbeck, a woman ply
stefan of st. Louis, was the heroine
of the wreck, according to railroad Of
ficials and passengers. In thirty min
utes she gave temporary treatment to
q injured persons, several women
passengers assisting her by preparing
bandages.
at seemed to me every woman tore
up her skirts for dressings said DIR.
LOhveck. Clothing was freely given
by the uninjured. and many cmptied
their baggage Of wearing apparel. The
eight mail clerks refused treatment
| until all the passengers were attended
to-.
Soon after all the injured had been
given temporary attention, relief
came"
The engine Of a local freight train
which was Just behind the wrecked
passenger train was attached to the
| three intact ears Of the i'll -fated train,
and all the passengers hurried to
Kansas City. T~hirty-one OF the In.
jured are now in a hospital here.
Almost an acre Of ground surround.
Ing the scene Of the wreck crumbled
| into the river and q large part of the
| hig stream Is flowing oyor the ground
hirmerly covered by the roadbed. II
VIII be necessary to build almost .
quarter of q mile Of track around the
vashout,