The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-10-21
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were to make emergency or wait or
passing or flag stops; heard the sta
tion whistle sounded.
Conductor Harry Shrader testified
in part, that he was conductor ON tram
| No SO, the night Of the wreck; that
he had orders against No. II at t:15
o'clock at Agawam or 1925 O'Clock at
Rush Springs; that his train left Rush
Springs at 1855 o'clock; that he had
twenty-five minutes to make Agawam
and get in the clear; that the running
time for train like his from Rusn
Springs to Agawam was twenty min
utes; that they were dropping down
the hill pretty fast when the shock
of the collision came; that he was sit
ting in the cupola that he jumped
down from the cupola and looked at
his watch; that it was 1:10 o'clock
when he looked at his watch that he
showed four stockmen who were on
the caboose his watch, and called their
attention to the time; that he went
to the front OF the train and there met
cowan; that Cowan seemed in a bad
way; that he said something about
1916 and 1915; that he did not know
whether he said LIS when he whistled
into Agawam or 1:16 when accident
occurred.
j. E. Stedham, brakeman on passen-
ger train No. II, stated that the train
left Chickasha at 12:43 or 12:s,i
o'clock; that he did not see the orders:
that it was unusual for him not to be
shown the orders; that he was stand
ing in the rear door OF the rear Pull
man at the time OF the collision; that
he was so far back he might possibly
have failed to hear the engine whistle
at Agawam: that he did not remember
of hearing the whistle; that he looked
at his watch after the collision; that II
was 90 O'Clock when he looked at his
watch, but that considerable time had
elapsed after the crash before he
looked at his watch; that he had to fix
his lamp and go ahead for matches
to relight 1t and help to quiet the pass
engers in the Pullman; that several
minutes had elapsed from the time Of
the crash until he looked at his watch;
that he had compared his watch al
Caldwell, Kan, with the engineer out
OF Caldwell and the watches were to-
gether.
c. ID. Raker testified that his home
was in Iowa; that he was train aud
itor; tha. he was sitting in the seat
with the conductor when the collision
occurred; that he was not thrown
from his seat; that the conductor
jumped up and cried or exclaimed
Jesus Christ" that the conductor
lighted his lamp which had been ex-
tinguished by the shock, and went out
into the night; that he knew nothing
of the orders to stop at Agawam; that
ii was not part of his duties to know.
w. A. Ray testified in part. that he
was a brakeman on the freight train
No. 9S, on the night of the wreck; that
lie looked at the conductor's-sh shrad- !
er's-watch: that he compared his
watch with the conductors; that they
were both 1910 o'clock; that the stock
men on the caboose saw these watches
and noted the time
Train Dispatcher Burke Of El Reno,
testified to sending out the wait
orders for train No II. he said, the
orders we're sent to the operator at
Chickasha at 1902 o'clock and to the
operator at Duncan at 1903 o'clock
Y. c. Keel, operator at Chickashe.
and c. e. Cottner, operator at Duncs.n.
testified in substantiation Of Burke's
testimony.
Following the testimony thus given.
inquiry adjourned to 900 o'clock a. m.
Thursday morning.
Upon melting OF the coroner's court