Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-01-01
THREE KILLED.
IN TRAIN
WRECK
ROCK ISLAND flyer
DlTCHED IN MISSOURI
Wrecked Cars 8urn Like tn
der and Passengers Have
Narrow Escape from Crema-
ton; Forty-three Injured

lBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
Trenton. Mo. Dee 3i-Three peo-
nle two OF them women, Mere killed
and az least forty-three injured when
the Rock Island passenger train No, B.
the California special westbound from
Chicago, was wrecked two miiels south
81 here ii $3.50 O'Clock this morning.
The known Dead.
q. +. LININGER. fireman, Tren-
ton, No
MRS GERTRUDE BARNER. Ar
mourdaie Kan.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN.
Among the injured are
e. -. spencer DALLAS, Texas, back
sprmned
WHabee z Lyon. years old. child
OF Mrs II T. Lyon, Phoenix Ariz,
back injured
j. H. Bankenship, Dallas Texas
knee sprained
THE Dause oi Inc wreck is unknown
although h Is thought 70 have been
caused bs spreading rails While the
train was running st high speed the
engine and tender ana all but
sleeper and observation car plunged
over giVe- foot embankmeni,
Passengers n The wrecked cars We're
Struggling Is eseape when the tire
started rha cars burned like tinder
scores were rescued. although the
flumes had seorehed their cloihins Or
burned their flesh Many we're pinned
lHuder the wreck and begged piteously
e. be feleased before tte fire reached
them
David sicael oc cleveland Ohio
Mas held for an hnuf while the flames
burned within few feet Of him He
mstu@ei thc rescuers ~ earry weter
1ram lna tank Of tle engine and put
sat the fire s'caN II body This
es ,tene s.d eyennlaIy he was res
eaed aahougn he Wll lnsc an arm
Heroic rescues were numerous. Men
and women wha escaped rushed back
into The burning wretkaee 70 rescue
heif lsa fortunate FELLOW passengers.
Carrying the burned mmmed and
f, biucdinG IL places ~ snfsiA
Tho wreck occurred IN most deso-
aie spot Not a building Of amy Kind
was near the ground was covered
with snow ana raw wind was blow
mr
. Eacaping vita bat d small portion
nf ,heir eothiEs hose tniniureh auf
farod terribly Men gave up their
coats to the women and children and
the Injured Women tore strips from
thrir clothing to make bandages
As many Injured as possible we're
placed ia the two cars that remained
on ihe track Others gathered about
bonfircs made OF portions Of the
wrecked train, until relief train ar
rived.
A FARMER called the Trenton office,
q division point, ana q relief train
Was quickly made W
The most seriously Injured were
taken to hotel Ia Trenton. An
other relief train took the remaining
passcnstts e Kansas city.
an we're provided with tickets to
their destinations.
Ii was believed at rirsl that at least
70 dozen people had been killed. but
when all the wreckaec had been
cleared away but three bodies had
been found
rigid Investigation is to ne made.
II uas in the debris OF the chair
CAR chat the bodies of tho TWO women
We're found u was the first to catch
fire and was h mass of seething
llamcs few minutes after the de-
ranment one end of the tonrist car
lenped over the chair car, making es-
cape from enc end impossible.
The engine Is q total loss. The body
of Fireman l.iningcr WAS dragged
from beneath the engine the body
was terribly scalded
William Flynn one Of the injured
and MIS- fierwude Barner who was
Killed, ~rfe sweothearts according TO
story FLYNN told priest here to-
might
We had been as my home mp in
Wisconsin on t visit he said When
the crash eume. she WAS sitting near
mo For moment all was dark.
Then when resaincd my bearings, /
saw her pinned under the wreckaee
near inr clllcd to her but she ala
not answer size died in my s'sat,
but was unable TO aid her"
plynn identified the woman BODY
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