Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-17
Ten Bodies Are Recovered
While Injured List VIII
Reach Half Hundred.
CAR BURIED DEEP
IN MUD AND WATER
Train Was Crowded With
Women School Teachers
on Way to Convention.

II ANDOLPH, Kan, Oct. 16.-With
IN ten bodies recovered from the
half submerged passenger car of a
Union Pacific motor train which
went through a bridge near here to-
day. estimates Of the total casualties
were placed tonight at sixteen dead
and two score injured SiXty-tVe
persons were in the car and only
four escaped injury when 1t plunged
into Fancy creek and was buried
deep in mud and water.
Most Of the dead, it was believed,
were drowned, although evidence
showed that several Of the recovered
bodies had been killed outright when
the train struck the bridge abut-
ment, weakened by three-inch rain
last night and crashed through it,
A revised list Of the recovered
dead follows:
Dr. Louis Atwood, Topeka, Kan.
Mary Giles, Manhattan, Kan.
Miss Alma Jellin, Garrison, Kan
Mrs Stelle Chapman, Manhattan,
Kan.
Miss Ethel Retzer stockdale, Kan.
A. 70 Shaw, Tecumseh. Neb.
Theodore Smith Tecumseh, Neb.
:. O. Retzer Tecumseh. Neb,
carl Stoneberg, Randolph, Kan.
Miss Della Peterson, Stockdale,
OF the many injured, it was
thought several might die. Miss
Mary Dyal Of Manhattan received
fatal injuries from being crushed in
the wreck of the car.
Crowded with Teachers.
The train was crowded with teach
ers to a county convention, and many
of the injured were young women.
They said the confusion WIS terrify-
ing. when the train, composed of
passenger and baggage car, struck
the bridge and plunged downward
into the swollen creek.
Those who did not hold or were
not caught were shot down the tip
ping car into the inflowing water
The task Cf resCuing the chnging
pas. ongers was extremely difficult
even after they had broken the win
dows and crawled into them. The
rear end of the car was high in the
air and the front end buried in the
mud. It was necessary for the sur
Niyors to crawl up the side of the car,
clinging to the window lodges and
seats. and on the end Of the shattered
nlutment. Many Of the injured were
unconscious from the loss of blood or
the shock by the time this perilous
route was covered Relief trains
from Manhattan and Marysville gave
the injured medical attention.
Completely Submerged,
What occurred in the forward end
Of the passenger car used as a smok-
ing compartment probably never VIII
be known as no one who was in that
section has yet been discovered
among the survivors. The smoking
compartment was submerged almost
Immediately after the abutment gave
way and those I'm II had little or no
chance to escape. The impact OF the
wreck shattered the windows in the
forward end Of the car and the FLOOD
waters poured in over the confined
passcngers there. as the car fell.
Three bodies have been taken from
this section and though they were
badly injured. death occurred from
drowning All Of the bodies yet re-
naming in the car are In this sec
tion
Many Acts of Hcroism.
Heroic acts were many on the part
Of the passengers who were them
selves injured J. H. Sawtell, princi-
pal of the Manhattan high school al
though badly cut and bruised, re-
fused To leave the car until every per-
son who showed signs of life had been
removed When he recovered from
the first shock, which precipitated
him half way through n window he
seized an iron bar, and, clambering
over the tilted seats, broke out the
glass OF windows and helped many
IA Uomeu to crawl through.