The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-16
Motor, Heavily Loaded, Dives
Into Greek Near Randolph.
Car, Now Perpendicular, Swal-
lows Human Freight.
DR.. ATWOOD, TOPEKA, VICTIM
On His Way to Assist Brother
in an Operation.
Four Bodies Recovered; Others
Still Beneath Water.
TRAIN JAMMED WITH TEACHERS
County Convention at RAN
dOIph Attracted a Crowd.
Part of Car Still Buried in 15
Feet of Mud and Water.
Four Bodies Recovered; Others
Still Beneath Water.
TRAIN JAMMEDWITH TEACHERS
County Convention at RAN
dOIph Attracted a Crowd.
Part of Car Still Buried in 15
Feet of Mud and Water.
identified Dead.

Identified Dead.
DIR. LOUIS ATWOOD, physician
ALMA K. JELLIN. Garrison, Kan
THEODORE SMITH, Tecumseh,
Neb.
A. o. SHAW, Tecumseh, Neb-
Among the Missing.
Mrs. stella Chapman, Manhattan
Miss Ethel Repzer, Stockdale.
Among the Injured.
Professor Sawpen, Manhattan;
back injured ,,,
s s Hockett, baggaSemah' arm
broken, other injuries.
Miss Mary Giles, Manhattan; in
jured. .4i, in
Miss Reppfe Carey, Manhattan IN
iured about the face.
-" IJovd Kistler, Manhattan; knee
hunt.
Randolph, Kan, Oct. 16.-Onloh
cific motor train No. 579, CONSISTING oi
one passenger coach and a oagsase
and mail combination car crasileu
through an undermined aputiileh', :
nlunred into Fancy creek. and buried
shout fifteen feet of the forward end
of the passenger car in flood waters
and mud. one mile south of here early
today. e.,
Four of the estimated seventy-flVe
messengers are known to be dead anu
Droba blV other bodies are lodged III tne
buried end of the car - ,,;o.
All attempts to reach these bodies
have failed and the correct deatn ms
urobabIy will not be known until
WreckinS crew can redch tiie ~ =.
lift the car. tor
rent bv three inches of rain whlch
fell yesterday and last nlsht. eras re
hist
of the flood waters, but the soutn
abutment was cut under SO that lle
charging motor train carrleo II oH ooM -. u
large majority of the passenger
80 ,-ou1g women school teachers
who had gathered from the southelh Ii
Dart of RILEY county to take the motor
train in a party to a teachers hlee'iie
to have been held here TO-DAY. m
Several of the young women al U
accounted for. oor
Few persons in the wrecked car
ascaDed without injuries and seVerdi
were wounded perhaps fataliy. 80 "A 81
was sent to Marysville, 20 InlleS lloi .4 -.
and to Manhattan, for medical --sslst- --,F-
ance The homes of Randolph were
thrown open to the sufferers
warren Knittle, of Manhattan, con-
80 of the wrecked train, estimated
tbat thirteen passengers probably Iost
their lives This estimate was not dc-
curate however. knlttle slu' dS
had lost some of his uckets Wilen l'5 ire
ino car and forced to jump through
door to save himself
He said 81 passengers had been ac-
counted for as alive after the WreCh-
Tipped on End.
-rha i'll fated train Ieft Manhattan,
northbound. shortly before z O'Clock
and arrived at Fancy creek prldge at
7:40. r,,id
rate when. according to the Passsar Sssrn,
or-d
car suddenly pitched down. Ihe pas
sengers in the forward enc Were
thrown against the motormans coIn-
Dartment and those further to the rear
n,e,-a dashed against the seats or
thrown into the aisle e.,,,
the first impact.
Mass in Water.
The front end of the car demollsneo
the abutment and one end OF the
bridge and was tottering on the edge
Rafore many of the struggling pas
sengers could extricate themselves ana
reach the doors or windows, the car
broke loose from the trailing baggage
car and plunged downward. standing
almost upright on the front end Many
clung to seats ana WluoW ieuSeS uiAS
they were rescued
Those who had been thrown against
the front of the car were last seen IN
a struggling mass that sank INTO the
water, the rescued Sdtu Lie AhOSOA
man. whose name could not be learned
here is believed to have gone down
with the car. He was confined IN
small compartment at the front end OF
the car and may have. been killed by
the first impact with the sinking abut-
ment.
Water Flows Through Car.
A mail clerk was the only occupant
of the rear car at the time cf the
wreck. He was uninjured.
1t is believed the weight of the pas
senger car with its load and driving
apparatus, buried the car te such a
depth as to make its raising extreme
4.cuit.
After the first plunge the car con-
tinued TO settle several minutes into
the mud ct the bottom of the stream
Railroad officials arriving this aft
ernocn began an attempt to establish.
the correct number cfs dead and iden-
tfy them bat no attempt TO get at the