Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-06
PASSENGER TRAIN
AND GASOLINE CAR
COLLIDE; 80 DEAD
Twenty-Five Injured in Blazing
Smash-Up on a Missouri
Railroad.
HEROES RESCUE NUMBER
FROM FLAMING WRECK
Tank Bursts and Oil Deluges Help
less Victims Pinned Beneath
the Broken Seats.
MAN AFIRE SAVES HIS FAMILY
Another Carries Nine pereone to
Safety-First Big Loss of Life
of Its Kind in Rail-
MAN AFIRE SAVES HIS FAMILY
Another Carries Nine Persons to
Safety-First Big Loss of Life
of Its Kind in Rail-
road History.

JoI LIN, MO-. august o. lie
thirty-nine killed and twenty-five
injured in last nights wreck at
Upton Ford, ten miles from here,
when a Kansas City Southern pas
senger train collided with a Mis-
souri, and North Arkansas railroad
gasoline motor car. were brought
here early today Many of the
dead and injured were badly
burned by the explosion of the
: gasoline tank on the motor car.
News OF the wreck had spread
rapidly throughout the city, and
when the relief arrived in the
early morning hours the streets
around the station here were
crowded with people.
Hero Is Cheered.
of Webb City. Mo-. was taken from the
and three children. was aboard the
wrecked motor car. was only slightly in
], ju-ed. He quickly removed the wreckage
which covered him and began a search
for his family. which included nine
month-old baby.
He found them buried under the back
OF a seat which was supported by sec
ond seat. One by one he brought them
from the car. crawling on his hands and
knees through the fire. which was rapid
1t~
severely burned. but physicians said they
would recover. Later. although his face
and body were covered with blisters
where his clothing had been burned
away. Drury crawled back into the
wreckage and rescued three other per-
sons.
Saved Nine Persons.
: J. j. Lauderback of Joplin crawled
through a window and saved nine per-
sons pinioned under the wreckage. He
was obliged to fight with one woman
whose child was lost to make her leave
the burning car
The wrecked train. northbound was
late. having been delayed by a freight
wreck at Gravette Ark. Because of this
1t was running on freight trains sched-
ule. The motor was running on the Kan
sas City Southern tracks, and evidently
its crew misunderstood the orders to
meet the passenger train at Upton Ford
. for il ran past the station without stop
ping. \ mile south of the town 1t met
the passenger train head on. Drury told
the story of the wreck here today.
Drury Describes Wreck.
miles an hour" he said, when suddenly
there was a terrific impact. which was
followed almost Immediately by the ex-
plosion of the gasoline reservoir BY the
time I crawled from the wreck both
the motor car and the train. fed by the
burning gasoline. seemed sheet of flame
Added to this there were the shrieks OF
the injured and dying. Many persons
pinned beneath the wreckage cried TO be
released killed rather than face a
death by fire.
Fourteen men We're riding in the
smoker and | heard OF only one who
escaped =
The wreck was said by railroad officials
to be the first in the fifteen years history
of the railroad gasoline car in the United
States causing heavy loss of life due
to the type of car The huge gasoline
supply tank for the cars big motor
burst. saturating the imprisoned passen.
gers Then tide gasoline caught FIRE.
Boy Tries to Save Mother.
Iowa EshF Lehman of Dewey. Okla. q
twelve-year-oid boy. attempted to breal
away from his rescuers and re-enter the
burning car when he found his mothe,
was missing. lie had been In the extreme
rear Of the motor car and was thrown
TO one side of the track by the shock
Bodies OF many of the dead were almos
consumed by the fire and many person.
pinioned beneath wreckage sustained
severe burns in addition to wounds
Complete identification of the dead will
have to await a canvass of those wht
escaped. as number of the bodies ar,
unrecogniZable.