Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-09-24
DEAD
|. IN BAD WRECK
IN KANSAS
ROCK ISLAND TRAIN
PLuNGES INTO DITCH
CIoudburst Destroys Thousand
Feet Of Track Doomed Train
PIunges IHto Gap at High
Speed; Thirteen Hurt
my Morning lourna, Special Leased wneI

IBy Morning gournaI Spcciul Leased wireI
Denver, Colo, Sept sixteen
passengers lost their lives and thir-
teen others sustained more or less
severe injuries In the wreck two
miles east of Clayton, kan, early this
morning of the westbound Rock Island
passenger train NJ. 27. which was due
in Denver at s;25 this morning from
Kansas city The known dead.
+, PlCKENBAUGH Goodland, Kan.
engineer.
A. v HUFFMAN, Kansas city, bag
gageman.
J. W. USGHER, Denver. conductor.
WILLIAM MILLS fireman
HERMAN MUELLER. Smith Gem
ter. Kan
JOHN SLO0P. Boyle. Kan
w. e. SHY ELY, Agra Kan.
GILBERT NJ. VANS, Fullerton,
Neb-
Unknown man and woman
Eight unidentified passengers.
The injured:
q. y. Brackon. linoman, Goodland,
kan, arm injured,
Mrs. II r.. Scott. Jennings Kan;
right arm broken
Victor Enelr- birmingham, Ala;
bruised and cut. not serious
Mrs. n. II. Evans. Langton. Kan;
head cat
John Cieler, suatton, Colo; head
aud face cut
p. iliges. no address side cut
a. ~ AVIS, Blue Rapids, KAN, LEFT
leg broken
AIRS. Anna smith. Colorado Springs.
tf4f,t-H hauI "a,
e. A. smith, Colorado Springs hand
and wrist cut
Henry Ahlers, Meatn, Mo, slight.
'lelen Bens0n Colorado springs;
slight.
e q Murphy passenger, Goodlaud,
KAN slight
= l.. only man clerk Goodland.
Kan. slight.
Most ~ the deaa and injured were
in thc smoker and one Of the day
coaches
rhe wreck was the result Of cloud
burst which carried ont a thou
sand feet OF fin heaides what
is normally a dry bed, turning
the latter into A torrent many
Yards wide and twenty feet deep
and washing out nearly q thousand
feet cl track Ia The vicinity OF the
wreck The train, running ut full
speed plunged into the sap. the en-
gine and mail car going down into
twenty feet of water The chair ear
almost tclescoped the smoker ahead
OF il. many Of the passengers In these
Two ears being almost instantly XIII
ed. Others were carried into the rag
ing stream with the wreckage, and
il was many hours before their bod
les could be recovered.
Passengers IN the Pullman and oth-
er day coach. hurled from their hcrths
aud chairs 10y tho shock. hurried Que
into the storm and rendered what
aid they could % the injured and ia
extricatinp the mangled hodies OF the
dead, Others hurried 70 clayton.
where news Of the accident WIS wired
to division headquarters. and within
hair an hour physicians and nurses
and a wreck train were being hurried
to. the scene from norton Colby.
Goodland ana Phillipshufg II WAS
not until late this afternoon. however.
before the last body had been recov-
cred from the wreck
Members Of the Topeka baseball
team OF the Western League, on their
way 10 Denver, were occupants of the
Pullman. hut escaped injury.
The train was running practically
on time and was proceeding on n
straight stretch of track Evidently
the first intimation that the engineer
had of amy danger came when he real-
ized that the forward portion of the
train wns running in water which had
spread ont over the tracks near the
I'M Reversing his engine the speed
ol the train was checked hut not
enough to prevent the engine, bag
eaee ear and smoker going over into
the depression.
The rear end of the smoker remain-
ed Tilted ON the earth bank and the
chair car ripped its way into the
smoker smashing it To- pieces and ktll-
ing ot iniuring many of the passen-
gers.
The chair ear itself was considers
ably damaged 10y the crash and sever
al passengers riding In this ear were
injured. As near as can he learned
here tonight an of the passengers Kill
ed were uccunants nt the smoker.
To the GOODNESS and quick wit OF
Engineer pickcnhaueh. who lost his
life. is attributed the saving OF the
lives OF those who escaped, numbering
"a hundred or more. II rs certain that
ne could have Jumped and saved HIM
self hut hc remained at his post ana
did everything possible to prevent the
train running into the ditch EXamin-
alton of the engine and air brakes
shows that he had reversed the lever
and set the air in an effort to check
the fneht of the train.
The three puNmaus remained on
.he track and the occupants of these
.ars We're unhurt.
As soon as communication was se-
.ured with headquarters. from Clay
ou and norton wreck!ng crews and
doctors and nurses were despatched
.D THE scene aboard "a special train
rem philMpshurs The dead and in