The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-10-16
Passenger Coach. Baggage and
Mail Combination Car Go
Through Bridge Undermined
by Swollen Stream.
THIRTEEN LOSE LIVES
UNDER THE WREcKAGE
Four Bodies Recovered This
Afternoon and Wrecking
Crew Report Says Nine
More Are Under Water.


Randolph, Kan oct IG-Union
Pacific motor train No. 5Ta. consisting
ot one passenger coach and baggage
and mail combination car. crashed
through an undermined ahutment.
plunged into Fancy creek and buried
about fifteen feet Of the forward end
OF the PASSENGER car In flood waters
and mud, one mile south of here
early today,
-Four of the estimated severty-nvel
pusengers arc known to he "a and
nine other bodies are said TO be lodged
In the buried end of the ear. All at
tCmpts 10 reach these bodies have
failed and the correct death list prob
ably viii not be known until the
wrecking crew can reach the scene
and lift the car.
Fancy creek. ordinarily nearly dry.
was swollen into torrent by three
Inches Of rain which fon yesterday
ANA last night The bridge proper
withstood the ravnges of the flood
waters hu the south abutmont was
cut under So that the charging motor
train carried Il down.
a majority of the passengers were
young women school teachers coming
To a teachers meeting which was to
have been held here today. Several
of the young women are unucCounted
for.
II was said few person in the wreck
ed car escaped injury. A call was
sent 60 Marysyille and to Manhattan
Tor medical assistance. The homes
OF Randolph were thrown open 10 the
sufferers.
Tho identified dead are.
Or Lewis Atwood, physician. To-
peka. Kan.
Alma X, Jellin. Garrison. Kan
Warren knittle of Manhattan, con-
ductor of the wrecked train. estimat-
ed that thirteen passengers probably
lost their lives. lie said Thirty seven
passengers had been accounted for as
alive after the wreck.
-~''o W-iated train arrived at the
Fancy creek bridge al 1850. The
train was travelling az rapid rate
when. according to the passengers. the
forward end Of the passenger car
I suddenly pitched down.
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and political leaders ls making tour
I of northcrn Mexico. Carranza was
( entertained By the cIyl authoritie,
and nn open air c1rniaal was given
| hccr tonight in hs honor General
| Carranza VIII visit stltllo befur,
] moving west 90 Torrcuu.
Ei Paso TcXaH, oct 30 The car.
/ rnna consulate today notified Gen.
| eral CarranM chat the Villa generals
] iiutdu and rriol Iowa ana Jose Ar
ruNo, who recently rcNolted to Car
rama ana wccr reported headed fol
/ Torrron, are ON their way 90 Sonor
iustcld aud have met and dcfcntn,
the villa forces at Sun Misuslito ii
the bay.spc district
M paso. Texas. oct iG-Thc Car
wnzl consulate today announced
had received Information from Junre
tudny to tho effect that General Rd
dnIiu Firfrn riEht-hlud man OF Gen
erI Villa, had boon drowned recent
in the santa Maria river near GuzWa
lake, northern Chihuahua. Ficrr,
acrurdine tu the hcsi avaIlable iufoT
nation here lott villa Ahumad
about O. week. asp with 5000 men {
join villa az Cas1a Gandos.
El Pnso. Texas. oct lG-With
llargc sVm of money in his possession
2 Francisco chavez. chief OF the confL
- oHuous office ot Juarcz. crossed to m
O American side today, according to a,
/, vices an the Carrunz1 agcncy II wi
;, said hc was expected 90 sive a
y money 20 the Curranza government.