The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-01
WRECK HAUNTS
FRISCO ENGINEER
SEEKS TO EXPLAIN HOW CRASH
CAME FRIDAY WHICH TOOK
LIVES or 90 PERSONS.

Sapulpa, Oct. death In Tulsa
hospital Saturday Of b. 7. McMurrough
OF sapulpa brought the number OF
dead in the Frisco wreck at keilyville
Friday afternoon to twenty.three.
Investigation into One cause OF 'he
wreck will he taken up by Frisco Of
6cials. but the inquiry may be a mere
formality, as railroad heads are said
to have agreed that the COLLISION was
due TO a mistake of the engineer Oh the
passenger train.
A revised list of the dead and :
riously injured follows:
The Dead.
B. T. McMURROUGH, Sapulpa, Okla
HuDLEY. Hugo, Okla,
A. TRACY. Tulsa, Okla.
r. NJ. HUTCHINSON, Tulsa, Okla.
Nv. f. WELCHER. Bristow, Okla
JESSl, MUCKER, negro, Bristow,
Okla.
NEGRO WOMAN, carrying letter adj
dressed to Mrs. a. =. steers, Copp bath
House Claremore. Okla.
WHITE MAN. about "a years old.
TEN NEGRO MEN.
-FOUR NEGRO WOMEN.
The Seriously Injured.
". Mills. postal clerk. Monett, Mo-;
George Il. Glaze, 1921 East Ninth street
Oklahoma City; right arm injured, scalp
wound. A. f.. Watts, Tulsa. okla: Mar
Gus \. Catterton, fireman on passen'
ger train. Sapulpa. Okla; j. = flch-
ardson. Sapulpa. Okla; Harry Bievens'
9l2 Francis avenue, Oklahoma CITY,
cuts and bruises on face, back and right
leg. in Oklahoma hospital. Tulsa: Eek
iel Lowe. negro. Tulsa, Okla; Jess Myc'
ker Oklahoma hospital, Tulsa; Zack
Guy. negro Sapulpa. Okla; Mace Frank
lin. negro, Oswego. Kan; Jesse j. Ap'
ney. Tulsa: Earl Adams, Broken Ar
row, Okla: J. w. Samuels, 1909 IL
South Agnew street, Oklahoma city
cuts on face: Orman Barber, Nowata
Okla: William Leitwein. Monett' Mo.
Edgar "a Linton, st. Louis. Mo.
Scene Haunts Engineer.
Suffering mental agony. John r.
Ruhl, engineer of the passenger tram
that collided with the empty troop train
l. confined to his home in Sapulpa un
der the care of physicians.
1T was terrible. the means of the
crushed and dying and the sight Of my
train torn to pieces" Ruhl said. 81
know I'll see il forever.
1--WE had orders to meet regular pas
senger train No. at Kellyville as well
as "a special empty troop train. No. 1922
AS my train entered the kellyville
wards. the passenger train was stand
ing on the siding and behind it was the
troop tiain. as we supposed
II looked for the engine number OF
the trooper. and as these numbers are
not so conspicuous as they We're prior
to the time they were taken from the
sides of the tender and supplanted by
the word Frisco in passing j was
not sure beyond the first two numei'
ais 13' that il was the train we had
been ordered to meet.
Failed to Notice CabOOse.
II thought to satisfy myself as we
passed the rear of the special, but be-
fore ! could pass, ] was slowed down
by the conductor who stopped the train
to allow passenger TO. avoid being
carried by his station. This took my
attention from the caboose attached to
the troop train and | failed to notice
ii when we passed by
Ruhl could not account for the time
that elapsed from the first moment af-
ter the crash until he was found wan
dering miles from the scene of the
wreck.
IAN remember was the flying glass.
There seemed to be tons of il, the cries
and groans. and then | saw my fireman
stumble and fail. and everything went
black II was awful