The Cape weekly tribune. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1914, 1914-09-18
Il KILLED WHEN
TRAIN is UPSET
Frisco Texas Limited Swept
From Tracks BY CloudbWst
AT Lebanon.
PLUNGES INTO LAX +
Passengers Asleep co i"to PHoi
and Are Crushed In
Their Beds.

!, an all-steel flyer known as the Tex
as Limited" which left Union Sta
ton at 1892 o'clock last night, was '
swept off the tracks by a cloudburst
near Lebanon, Mo-, 1872 miles south
west of st. Louis, about 2:30 this
Two passenger coaches, two
mail cars and the locomotive tumbled
into a lake nearly ten feet deep, form
ed alongside the right Of way by re-
cent heavy rains. Passengers, asleep
in the chair car and smoker, were
drowned when these coaches turned
over on their side and were submcrg-
ed. Twenty-seven people were killed
Seven bodies, five Of them of wom-
en-, were pulled out Of the submerged |
chair car after daybreak. Later in the |
morning 81 other bodies were recover
ed. II was estimated by railroad men
at the scene that between 30 and a.
persons lost their lives, a great num-
Der of whom were women and chill
drcn. Estimates of the total number
Vt dead were to an extent gueSsWorh.
haaod upon the trainmen's memory o'
tho ulmbcr Cf passengers in the cha'r
car and smoker. 1t was estimated
that fully 81 persons were in the char
! car.
Thirteen passengers were injured
| 1 10, | ,hn
for treatment. The unidentified dead
are:
Henry Wagner, St. Louis.
August Wettner, 420 South Second
street, ST. Louis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rostetler, Alliance,
Ohio.
w. w. Childers, Billings, Mo.
Mrs John Meyers and daughter. of
Thayer, Mo-
]. H. Stockstill, Springfield, Mo"
fireman.
Vernon Calvin, Rumley, Ark.
Elsie Calvin, Rumley, AJAX.
David Perry, no address given.
George Coxey, Green Forest, Ark.
w. w. Naylor, Springfield, Mo-
C. Neal, Ketchum. Ok.
; II. W. Newkirk, Hannibal, Mo.
John Meyers of Thayer, Mo-, who
was identified earlier in the day as one
of the dead, later was found to be
alive. He was injured and in a hyster'
ical condition Two bodies have beer
identified as those Of his wife anC
daughter.
Relatives of a Mrs. George Brown
y of st. Louis, sent her description t
the Frisco Offices after the news o
the wreck was published. She i
I known to have been on the train. A
" $3.50 y. m. it was said a woman re
V sembling the description of Mrs
y, Brown had been found dead in tn
II vrcckage, but the identification wa
not positive.
y Some Of dead who bore marks O
y Identification are:
A woman, 25 to % years old, wear
- ing a ring with the inscription, F..
:" T. X. April, 1912.
A boy, about 7 years old, with blu
trousers and red striped waist h
wore a ring with the initial 7.
20 A young woman wearing braccle
II, a half moon pin, a pink set rlng'
'r coral cameo and pearl necklace.
~ A woman about As years Old wea
ing glasses. She had no lower teet
" and three upper teeth protruded.
II A girl about IL years old, wearr
=, ring with blue setting, gold Ri
" pin, white stockings and slippers.
A girl with a bracelet and a go
- rnig. She resembled a description
" Lena Myers of Thayer, Mo.
" A man about so years old had
clasp pin with the initials, f. r.
engraved, fastened to his shirt.
A man about 81 years old, wore
plain gold band ring, inside of viii
were engraved the initials, T. r.
The initials F.. D. Y. were also VIZ
ten in a laundry mark.
Trip Smith, who lives on DeIm
boulevard, west of Sarah, was on
way to Arkansas to visit his paren
His brother, w. B. Smith, president
a local electrical organization left
Louis this afternoon to see if he COT
find what happened to him,
A number of passengers in the en-
}. car managed to escape from
watery prison by breaking the "
dows, rising to the top of the wa
and swimming to shore.
The heroine Of the wreck was NJ
Mona Campbell % years old u
recently a nurse at the city hosp
vsi in St. Louis She was a passenger
St. the chair car and managed to br
,ore a window and climb out to the side
lent the coach, which was fiat on its
in the water.