The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-08-07
80 DIE IN WRECK
NEAR JOPLIN, MO.
FAST TRAM or KANSAS CITY
SOUTHERN HITS MOTOR CAR.
ARKkNsAhs VICTIMS.
GASOLINE TANK eXPL0DES
One Man Saves tIine--piteous Cries
of injured IN Wrecked Motor Fall
on cara Of Those Unable 10
Render Assistance.

joplin. 80. -~ T~htrty-etght persona
were killed and 70 Injured In q cot
iIai9H between northhDund passenger
train No, Q IN the Kansas City South.
ern railway and a Missouri a. North
ArNAuHas railroad gasoline motgr car
running on the Kansas City Southern
tracks near Upton Ford. 10 miles
south Of here. Mistaken orders are
raid 10 have caused the accident.
A relief train, carrying phystrians
and nIrses. brought the injured to
Joplin,
Most Of the lead aud injured were
Nias0uTiaRa,
According L reports Fer"iYcd here,
both The motor car and thc train we're
running al a high rate Of speed when
they met 1T Tipton's Ford. a small sid
ing. With the collision came the ex.
picbion Of the gasoline reservoir Of the
motor car, setting both the motor car
bud the train atIre. Every person in
The motor raj was Killed, Il IL 5aid.
wv laJhtFAa Flt4hFA bFagaih tiE
wrecHtge, begged pltebualy to be re.
leased ~ the fire attacked them, but
The fire quickly spreading made 1t i'm.
possible for the uninlured to assist
Them.
The motor a was showed back 800
Safds by the train and was left sus
handed over the I~nrafuottYg
None OF the passengers on the train
was killed. although the engineer and
tifemea we're injured. The passengers
Eere thrown On the floor Of the motor
ear aud imprisoned by the seats, which
we're overturned
J.. ]. Lauderbaek of Joplin, Mo. a
passenger on the train. crawied
through q window and saved nine per.
A woman whom he dragged through a
window fought with him to be allowed
10 return To her child. which was
caught under the wreckage.
Because Of the rapid spread Of the
flames the number OF dead was not
knawn hours after the accident. Some
reports said II would reach 60.
The motor car crew Is said to have
had orders to pass the northbeund pas
senger train at Tipten's Ford. The
train crew had similar orders. Instead
Of waiting for the train TO pass. how.
ever, the motor car Ia said to have
proceeded south and upon reaching a
curve a mile beyond. the collision
rame.
The motor ear wal In charge OF En-.
ginemat Herbert Ratclin OF Eureka
Springs. and Conductor s. A. Mich.
olas OF Harrison, Ark. Frank Brad.
ley OF Eureka Springs was the brake,
man. ALI three are among the dead.
With supposedly a clear track ahead,
the passenger train plunged at full
speed into the motor car, which wal
coming from an opposite direction.
Each il said TO have been running rs
miles an hour. The motor car was
telaseoped aud its gasoline reservoir
exploded, throwing burning oil over
the wreckage. The heavy train
crushed the motor car like paper, and
The crash was Immediately followed
by the fire, which spread death and
Injury to almost every n on the mo
tor.
Az the fire spread, many persons
pinned under the wreckage begged to
be killed.
When the news OF the wreck reached
Joplin every available physician and
nurse was rushed to a relief train. The
injured we're placed aboard and
brought back to Joplin. and the hos
pitals were crowded. Many OF the
dead were taken TO Neosho, Mo.