The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-09-15
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One man in the chair car lost his wife
and five children. When the accident
occurred he was thrown clear OF she
descending chair car and SWAN ashore.
In the submerged car his wife and
children met their death, while ne
stood near by unable to aid them.
Rains during the last week caused
all the small streams In the vicinity o.
the wreck to rise. The train was late
because of these flooded conditions. AS
it passed Lebanon. according to reports
reaching here, its speed was increased
to make up lost time. Tnen inc dcc.-
dent occurred.
Railroad officials announced the In
jured would be brought to Springfield
The dead are being PLACID in hastily
arranged morguee at Lebanon. Com
munication between Springfield and the
wreck IL practically cut off, making II
impossible to secure a list OF the ia
taliteS.
The train, the Texas Limited, was one
of the best equipped trains on the
Frisco railroad. The train left 81. Louis
last night at 1872 o'clock for Galveston,
Tex, and carried three Pullman sleep,
ing cars, two cabooses, baggage ana
smoker. ID diner. All the equipment
was Of steel.
Sleeping Cars Stayed On
st. Louis, Sept. 15.-Telephone and
telegraph wires to Lebanon were out
Of commission several hours this
morning as a result of last night
storm: but at $3.50 direct telephone
communication was secured with
Lebanon.
From reports thus obtained 1t APP
pears that the locomotive plunged of
the track into the gully dragging
along a mail car. q baggage car, the
smoker and - chair car. Four sleep
ing cars did not leave the track. Most
of those caught in the wreck were in
the chair car.
The train left the track at a trestle
which had been washed out last night.
Woman Rescues Five.
Four cars and the locomotive were
overturned into the gully, swollen to
g. temporary lake, which runs beside
the track. Seven bodies have been
taken from the chair car. The names
of the identified dead were given out
at the Frisco office here today as fol-
lows:
HENRY WAGNER, Harrison. Ark.
MRS. ELIZABETH ROSTETER.
Alliance, o.
w. H. CHILDREs. Billings. Mo.
JOHN MYERS. WIFE AND
IDAOG1IEh, mayer, MO.
Vernon and Elsie Calvin. Rumler,
Arkansas.
Daisy Perry.
One Of the passengers in the SUBJ
merged chair car was Miss Mona
Campbell, a nurse of st. Louis. She
broke a window and climbed out to
the side of the car.
Standing in water. she felt about un-
til she touched the hands OF passen-
gers. AS she grasped a hand she
pulled with all her strength. In this
way she rescued five passengers.
At Frisco general offices it il said
that the cause of the wreck is not
clear. but that this would be deter
mined as soon as the waters, now re-
| ceding. had gone back far enough to
permit an investigation to be made
Rep ,rts received at Frisco hea iQuar-
tiers indicate the train lid not &c
| through a trestle, AZ newspaper re-
ports from Springfield indicated. but
that the track, which had been washed
by water. gave way.
This report in .ue main harmonizcs
| With telephone messages from Leba.
ncn. stating that the train crossed TIE
trestle safely and then left the track
falling over into a swollen gully.
Met q Wall OF Water.
| st. Louis. Sept. 1.-THE account OF
| the Wreck received Dy telephone from
Lebanon was obtained from Lucier
Harris of st. Louis. publicity manager
of the Frisco, who arrived at Lebanon
on the Southwest limited" which lef
st. Louis a few minutes after thu
TEXAS limited" the wrecked train
| Wire communication was so pool
that it was necessary to have Harris,
story repeated by the telephone opera
tor Harris said that Engineel
O'Brien escaped but that the fireman
was drowned.
For some time before the wreck, tn,
train had run across bad stretches O.
track due to the heavy rains and whel
the train left the rails it was runninI
only Is miles an hour. The enginee
said he suddenly encountered a cloud
burst and that 3 wall Of water seemed
to be sweeping towards the train. Tn,
lengineer closed the throttle in an eff
fort to stop the train but in q momen
the engine and four cars were SVEN
4 from the rails.
At the place where the wreck occur
red the tracks are on a 12-foot EN-
bankment and at daylight 1t was learn
ed that part of the embankment un
der the tracks had been washed away
According to reports received at Frisc,
offices, twenty-six bodies have beef
recovered. All employees in the bag
gage car escaped.
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