The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-01-06
TRAIN IN DITCH;
SLEEPERS BURN
SLEEPERS BURN so FIERCELY
THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO
EXTRICATE OCCUPANTS.
FIREMAN BURIED UNDER ENGINE
Ground Covered with Snow and Ice, Hin
dering Work in Rescujng
the Injured.
GOING AT FAST RATE OF SPEED.
FIREMAN BURIED UNDER ENGINE
1OING AT FAST RATE OF SPEED
BULLETINS.

BULLE JjNS.
CHICAGO, H., Dec. 31.-An official
report issued ut the general Offices Of
the Rock Island railroad this afternoon
states that only three persons were
killed in the wreck Of the Golden Gate
Limited, near Trenton, Mo- today The
names of those reported killed were not
divulged.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec 31.-A
long distance telephone message from
Trenton at ! 40 this afternoon says the
dead in the burned tourist car on the
Rock Island train were estimated at all
the way from twenty to thirty persons.
There was no way at this hour of get
ting at the fact, as the car had been
practically destroyed
TOPEKA, Kan. Dec. 31.-Gencral
Superintendent Smallcy reports the
bodies Of two unidentified women have
been taken from under Pullman ear
in the Trenton wreck. The body Of the
fireman also was recovered
TRENTON, Mo-, Dee. 31.-Imprisoned
IN a tourist sleeping car and burned to
death is believed to he the fate Of
perhaps twelve passengers on the west
bound California special on the Chicago,
Rock Island u Pacific railroad. three
miles east Of Trenton today The mum.
Der Of victims may be larger but tho
facts viii not be known til the dchri,
IF the car ha, been searched.
The train was dcrliled at $40 while
passing through 4 stretch of ice-cOvcred
country at a high speed.
The huge engine, a standard Pullman
sleeper, and the tourist sleeper caught
tire aud were destroyed, and a portion
81 the chair car was burned.
At noon the known dead, whose bodies
had been recovered, numbered three
Fireman Liningcr and two women, uu-
Identified. Nine persons were known to
be injured, two probably fatally. The
bodies Of the two women were taken
from the chair car. Most Of the injured
were also in this car. All the paSseu.
gers in the burned Pullman escaped, and
aside from bruises and slight cuts, none
Of these were hurt.
All May Be Cremated
The number Of those who lost their
lives IN the tourist car is in doubt None
is known to have escaped from this
car, and it is believed all of its pas
seugcrS were crcmatcd
The wreck occurred without mo-
ments warning TO the passengers and
by the time they had realized what was
happening the three cars were in flames.
Happening as 1t did in an isolated spot
there was no aid at hand save that avail
able on the train.
The passengers and members of the
crew who escaped injury went to work
at once to aid the injured Many per
sons were dragged from the chair car.
Those in the burning Pullman generally
escaped unasSistcd The fire that attacked
the tourist sleeper burned fcrccly forcing
back the rescucrs, aud they stood by in
the 10" ANA snow, powcrless 10 render
aid
Cause of Wreck Unknown.
The cause of the wreck is not known
The engine suddenly jumped the track,
aud plOughlug through the ruadbcd,
landed upside down, - feet from the
tracks Following closely came the mail
and baggage cars. These two cars
doubled ahead past the engine Both
cars were badly smashed Back of these
cars came a chair car, a tourist sleeper,
two standard Pullman slccpers, and an
observation car.
When the chair car, tho tourist and
the first Of the Iullman slccpcrs reached Il
point opposite the disabled engine. they
left the track and piled up. The cars
at once caught fire from the engine The
second standard sleeper and the obscrya-
ton car were practically uudumagrd
Ihc irsi shock of the Wrccl, over pas
songcrs began clamboring through win
doWs, while farmers living near hy ran
10 tho scene. Men entered the burning
chair car and dragged hdlf stunned and
bleeding passengers To safety
Flames prevented the rrsruprs from on
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