The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-09
6 HURT IN WRECK
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the engine began swaying. and sud
denly Stacked up owing to the auto
matte setting of the brakes when the
cars were torn loose 1 realized that
we were separated from the cars and
put on the brakes and ran back to the
diner
The inside of the overturned diner
was a screaming bedlam according to
Haviland. Haviland proceeded to
smash the windows on the upper side
and leaning thru helped the passen-
gers to escape. Shortly after Con-
ductor Gaines and J. w. Stevens, Pull
man conductor appeared, and the din
ing car was speedily cleared.
The Newman station agent notified
Rock Island officials of the wreck
within five minutes after its occurrence.
DR.. L. H. Mum and, DR.. Albert H.
Marshall arrived on train No. SO to
care for the passengers. Taylor and
Ransom had already been sent on to
mainder of the passengers, pronounced
comparatively uninjured, proceeded to
Kansas City on No. 36.
Passengers Were Lucky.
Luck was with the passengers, if
not with the Rock Island, which will
stand loss estimated at 100000.
The fact that the limited was an all
/ ed loss of life, according to railroad
officials. Had it been a wooden train,
they would have been carting away
the dead all day." asserted one veteran
railroader. THE cars would have been
smashed to kindling wood and in all
probability would have caught fire.
Taylor and Ransom, the most seri-
| ously injured, are reported to be i'm
proving. Taylor was badly scalded
when the hot water tanks on the roof
of the kitchen were upset and was
painfully bruised owing to being
= xI,r-r tvs
| the kitchen.
The shock of the derailment was not
! instantaneous, according to Sergeant
Frank B. Dearing of Philadelphia
| first sergeant troop L, Seventh cavalry
''The first notice of the deraiIment -
fee from the cup in front of me. Then
| the cup went clear over and then
everything turned over and the confu-
sion was indescribable.'
H. K. Johnson. the barber in the
buffet, had barely finished shaving
and was just putting his razor away
when the shock came. He escaped
entirely uninjured.
Pullman Passengers Escaped.
| His good fortune was seemingly du-
plicated in the cases of all of the pas
| sengers in the five Pullmans. The in
| juries reported were those of people in
the dining car.
| Those in the diner had a mira Gu
| 1ous escape" Doctor Marshall said
this morning. 81 never saw such q
mess as the interior of that car. In
the darkness 1t looked as tho the cars
were torn to pieces. In treating the
| injured we had to take them back to
the wrecked cars. 1t almost made a
| person seasick to Chamber thru the
ttopsy-turvy wreckage with the ceiling
on one side, the floor on the other and
| a side of the car above"
| Practically eVervn1e of tho fwaptv.
| five or thirty persons in the diner sus-
tanned cuts and bruises, but only the
six named above were injured severely,
according to DR.. L. H. Mum.
| Local train service was interrupted
I for short time because of the wreck
| Eastbound and westbound trains were
.bseSera1 hours behind their schedule,
however. By reason of the double
7 track, trains were able to switch
around the wreckage until it was re-
moved.
Nearly fifty K. U. students elected
to ride with the wrecking crew from
| Lawrence and succeeded in reachina
Perry before they were put Off Chan
cellor Strong. who is reported to have
had a nephew in the wreck, made a
vain effort to go with the wrecking
crew.
The crash of the wreck could be
heard half a mile away and all night
farmers from miles around visited the
wreck.
Kentucky Woman?
Late reports from the wreck OF
Rock Island train No. indicate that
the Unidentified woman about sc
years DID, believed to live in Greens
burg, Kan, is Mrs. Marie Cundiff, OF
Newport, KY, and that she is ar
invalid, suffering only from a nervous
shock, as a result of the wreck
4 1t was indicated late this afternoon
that the wreckage from the track:
could not be removed for two or thres
days, out that the track itself woulC
be clear enough to permit of the oper
alton of trains before that time.