Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-29

George J.. tldZe, attorney OF Ohh-
homa City. who was sitting in the
smoking car about three seats from
the entrance. sal 1:
80 was reading when the collision
occurred. sitting on the lefthand side
facing the front. | saw something
coming toward me, mashing the pas
sengerB TO death as II came. II was
tho floor Of the mail car. | hardly
had time TO dodge down between the
seats. but not before a piece OF y
struck me In the forehead, making a
gnsh, from which / believe ] must
have lost quart OF blood.
"As the floor OF the mail ear
passed over me II pinioned me In be-
tween tho seats. | managed to work
my way to the window In front of me
and rescucrs pulled me out.
NO, | was not knocked uncon-
scious," he continued. Il wish / had
been. I would not have suffered so
much paid"
j. w. Sanders. Oklahoma City de-
tective, another passenger of the death
car, said he saw nine men dead as he
locked around him. lie was badly cut
about the head and his left side was
injured.
1T was the most horrfying scene
| ever witnessed" he said. "Mangled
bodies were all about. me, and the
shreiks OF the wounded and the moans
OF the dying filled the air. | saw men
lying dead acros the breasts OF the
wounded who called piteously for help.
One negro, with his dead companion
lying across his breast. was pinioned
! by an iron bar which was strangling
! the life out OF him. lie shouted Tor
help but the onlookers were powerless
| to give II"
Assistance Slow In Arriving.
4 Ii. he.
scene OF the disaster. At late hour
/ last night the wrecking train had not
arrived and many SILL are held be-
meath the wreckage. They cannot be
rescued until the wrecker arrives.
| Relief automobile from Kellyville,
! Sapulpa and Bristow.. carrying physi-
! clans and II corps of workers. reached
the scene an hour after the collision
occurred and began the work of min
| istering TO the injured.
A relief train at s O'Clock brought
the wounded to Tulsa. They were
rushed, black and white together. to
the oklahoma hospital. where they
were cared for by extra corps OF
nurses and surgeons The most
seriously injured among those brought
/ here are five negroes, each of whom
sustained broken arm, broken leg,
wrcnched back or other injuries OF Ike
lAlultt buN but uibNpiiS
all Will recover.
Thousands Meet Relief Train.
The hospital and police departments
NJ Tulsa did excellent work in handling
] the emergency When the relief train
arrived in the Frisco station bringing
the wounded, II was met by every
available ambulance In the city and
special police guarded the intersec-
tons or every street crossing onMain
thru the business district.
The ambulanccs were given clear
street and rs they whirled thru the
business section at terrific speed,
their bells changing constantly, thou
\ sands looked on In awe-strickcn ST.
lcncc, In the throngs were many
anxious hearts. wives, sisters and
mothers OF those who were passengers
ON the Inflated train.
Judge West Missing.
At n late hour last night friends OF
Judge Preston G. West. who was en-
iouto to oklahoma City, wer-
anNiously waiting 10 hear OF his saicty.
| Tho Worlds Sapulpa Corrcspondens
reported that he had not been foun
and II is feared that he may have been
"A victim Of the collision or among
those still pinioncd beneath the
| wtcCkago.
| JhNkp NkRt ~ one or INc 0lNSt
prominent lawyers I'm eastern okla
homa. Ho came 20 Tulsa two years
ago from MuskoEcc. whore he hat
served MS district judge, and was icr-
merly n solicitor FOR tho interior de-
pai tmcnt at Washington. Some
months ngo he was an applicant for
United states circuit court Judge from
this district.
Hpnncds ot persons rushed TO the
A. l,,
thc injured had been taken there ana
woro greatly relieved WHOM they found
that their friends and relatives who
were In the wreck were not danger
ously hurt,
Nowota Man Wonders at Escals.
Ormau Barber an oil driller OF NO
wota. wondered how he escaped death.
lis partner, Arthur Tracey. OF tue
same town, who was sitting. beside
him IN tho smoker was instantly
KILLED and the two men sitting Just
I'm front ~ him. whom he did no,
know, were also killed, Tracey wd-
an oil tool dresser IN BARRIERS emf
ploy. Barber was Knocked uncon-
sciOus by the terrific impact ant
when he regainod his senses had been
RESCUED
". II. Mills. mail clerk. whose hoins
Is at Mouett WAS another who had a
miraculous escape II was his second
wrcck-aNd his last This is enough
tot me-" he said, as he lay on n cot a,
the hospital II don't think I'll run
the risk " another such experience
There are too many other jobs beg.
rins for men"
Mills was pipioued beneath his mai
l car but MANAGED 70 eNtricate himself
and tho badly hurt in his left side
hip and SrO. he dragved himscr &c
| the rcSiStcred msll sacks and stoo,
eNard over them until he was relieve,
81 this duty hy others lie diG nc
| know whether his companion clerk
| Henry koog.c, whose homo is At Rris
tow, was living or dead, but late re
ports from oklahoma CITY CAV,
Nooglc's ramc ms among those take'
To- thnt city with the injured Hc +
| badly hurt hut tho cNtCnt ~ his IN
II iUrtcs Wcsc not oNtainaNle
/ Wtlliam Weitwcm. brakeman o'
| the paSScngcr, whose homo is 4,
| Tulsa, had iWSt entered the door q
/ the smoker and closed IL when IN
crash came he was NadlN injured
| his side and hack NeinE wrvNched
one rib broken and hlS body bruised