Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-10-16
SEVEN KILLED
|. IN COLLISION
NEAR OMAHA
FAST FREIGHT CRASHES
INTO PASSENGER TRAIN
twenty-five Injured Taken
From Wreckagei Accident
Due to misunderstanding Of
Orders is Theory of Officials,

tBy Morning journal special Leased wireI
Omaha, Neb., Oct. i5.-Seven per-
sons were killed and twenty two in
jured. four of them seriously. In a
collision between Missouri Pacific
passenger train, No. i05 northbound.
enroute for this city and a fast freight
train.
The wreck occurred at Fort Crook
at 10 o'clock this morning. Fort
Crook Is ten miles south of here. The
accident is believed to have resulted
from misunderstanding of orders
on the part of the freight crew. A
passenger train TO leave this city for
the south about the time of the acct
dent. was converted into relief train
and sent to the scene of the accident
Shortly before noon the relief train
returned to this city with the injured
and several of those who were slight
ly Injured. or these. all were sent
on to their homes. The more seri-
ously Injured are being cared for at
the army hospital at Fort Crook.
Governor Gilchrlst of Florida. who
was a passenger on the north bound
train, was uninjured.
The Dead.
+. A. PETRING. Nebraska City.
O. w. KELLER. Atchison. Kan.
MRS. FRED ROWTMANN, Ne
braska City.
WISTERIAN ROWTMANN, S-yeer-
old daughter OF Mrs. Rowtmann.
A. SPRAGUE. st. Joseph. Mo.
MISS FRANCES LILLIAN KAN
KA, Washington, Kan.
Unidentified negress.
The Seriously injnrcd.
Fred W. Rowtmann. banker. Me-
braska City, wife and daughter among
the killed.
emma Harvey, negress, Kansas
City, Mo.
w. c. Richards. Maynard, Neb.
John Scott, passenger engineer.
The Slightly Injured.
Mrs. Rope Conway, Alameda, Cal,
flesh wounds on leg.
V. j. Wetherla, Bethel. Kan, arm
bruised, leg lacerated
r. NJ, Russell, Bethel. Kan, scalp
wounds.
j. Il. Darby. Bethel, Kan, collar
bone broken; shoulder hurt.
Miss Jean Conway, Alameda, Cal,
ankle sprained hands cut
Flo Conway, Alameda, Cal, cut
about face.
John J. Wetherla, Bethel Kan.
three ribs fractured.
II. r. Horan. Bethel, Kan, scalp
wounds; knee hurt.
Passenger train No. i05, out OF
Kansas city, in charge of Conductor
F. II. TraVers. was running late. Con-
ductor l.. p. Gross, of the freight
passed South omaha at $50. He had
signed off, but evidently did not
check the train register as to the
whereab bouts of No. 1906. AT the point
of the collision the track makes
sharp curve, shutting Off the view OF
the Fort Crook station. II was at
this point that Engineer Crawford OF
the freight train caught sight of No.
which was coming at high speed.
Engineer Crawford, Il is said, had no
orders In regard to No. l05, but he
whlstled and slackened speed. When
the passenger did not answer no
concluded that II was a train on the
adjoining Burlington tracks.
When within a few ear lengths of
each, both engineers realized the
and reversed their engines.
The momentum of the passenger
train, however. was so great that In
A moment II was piled up on the
freight engine, which had almost
stopped. The crews OF both engines
jumped
DR.. John Colliver, of Los Angeles. a
passenger on the Pullman attach
ed 10 train No. l05, rushed to the
front ana worked herolcally to assist
The injured. The crew and unlnjur-
I'd passengers formed Themselves into
A band that worked under the direc-
lion of Dr. Colliver until the arrival
If the army medical corps from Fort
Crook under Major Dale and Lieu
tenant Clark.
A call was sent to Omaha for med
cal assistance.
John Scott, engineer of the pass
anger, declared that he heard no
whistle from the freight train. lie
aid he was not going over twenty
i've of thirty miles an hour.
Engineer Crawford of the freight
rain, wandered about the wreck. pale
ma unnecyed. With tears In his eyes
ne repeated over and over his story
If the collision. He blamed Gross.
lis conductor, for the wreck, saying
nc had received no orders regarding
he passenger train