The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-17
This Saved Lives of Many Rock
Island Passengers.
Burlington and C. r. /. e. p.
Trains Meet Head-On.
ONE MAN is KILLED.
Also Eighteen Injured in C. b.
g. @. Wooden Coaches.
Wreck Caused by Oversight Of
hte Burlington Grew.

Holt. Mo-, Sept. 1.-THE fact that a
Rock Island train was composed OF a
number of all-steel cars saved the lives
of many people in a wreck here last
night when a Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy and a Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific train came together headon and
caused the death of one and the In
juries of IS in the Burlington train.
The trains which collided were the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy No. 6,
which left Kansas City at o'clock and
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific No.
POI. which left Chicago at 1870 o'clock
Thursday night, the latter train head
ed-in on the c. B. & Q. tracks at
Cameron Junction on its way to KAN
sas City. A misunderstanding of or
ders by the C. B. &. @. crew is said 10
have been responsible for the wreck.
which happened at $50 p. m. The trains
were to have passed at this station.
The Rock Island train was or all
steel construction. The chair cars ana
smokers were the new equipment just
sent out on the lines by the Rock Is
land and the Pullman cars on the train
were steel underframe and frame.
This steel equipment is used on prac-
tically all of the through trains OF the
Rock Island and this is the fourth time
since the cars were purchased by the
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been saved. The cars are all steel
only the window frames being of wood
construction. They are indestructible,
fire proof and nonwreckable.
The passengers in the steel cars felt
the shock, were shaken up and that Is
ALL Not a car left the track and not
a window was smashed by the impact.
In the Burlington train the smoking
car left the track and rolled down an
embankment.
The Dead.
H. L. HOWARD, Brookheld, Mo,
brakeman on No. 6.
The Injured.
Mrs. A. L. Richard, Lathrop, Mo-.
slight.
Joe Michiket, Brookheld, conductor
No 6, left shoulder dislocated.
William Garrett, Brookfeld, Mo-, en-
gineer No. 6, right leg broken.
John Minger, Hamilton No. head
and legs hurt.
Richard Hunt, Cameron, MO-, back
and right side bruised.
Edward Stephens, Brookheld, Mo-,
head cut and back hurt.
E. f. L. Scott, Lathrop, Mo, head
and hands injured.
Charles Bennett, Kingston, Mo-.
slight.
Joe Day. Brookfeld. Mo-. bruised and
cut.
L. NJ. Marshall. Brookf1eld, Mo-,
slight.
s. E Langhorty, Joliet, Mont, head
cut, right side injured and left leg
hurt.
o. W. Myers, Deloit. Iowa, right rib
broken.
Thomas McKinistrey, Brookfield, Mo-,
fireman No. g. slight.
T. P. Allen, Brookield, Mo-, ankle
sprained.
Charles Schriever, Brookfeld, Mo-,
slight.
w. H. Ringhausen, Cameron. Mo-, hip
and shoulder hurt.
Charles Tulman, Lathrop, Mo, slight.
C. L. Singleton, Lathrop, Mo-, slight.
The weight of the engine of train No.
pol and the fact that it carried steel
cars prevented anyone on it from be-
ing injured. None of the injured will
die. All those who were hurt, with the
exception of members of the crew,
were in smoking car on the c. B. &
Q. train. This car was derailed and
rolled down an embankment. All the
remainder Of the equipment of both
trains remained on the track. The
trains were not moving more than 20
miles an hour.
After the C. B. & @. train had pass
ed here Luther E. Wilhert, the agent,
realized a wreck might take place. He
called farmers along the line by tele-
phone and pleaded with them to stop
the train, but it was too late. Howard,
who was killed, was thrown through a
window of the smoker and crushed be-
meath the car. Relief trains were sent
from Kansas City and Lathrop.
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