The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-15
No. 1872 Into Creek Near BelOlt,
Kan, This Morning.
Probably 25 Passengers Injured
AT Least Three Die.
BROKEN RAIL is THE CAUSE
Both Engine and Baggage Gar
Passed Over Safely.
Red Cross OF BeIOit Goes to Aid
OF the Injured.
The Dead.

ROSS. CARLEION, beloit' q
plumber, a former Topekan.
MRS. JULIA CHARBONNEAU,
Concordia. Oldest member OF the
wealthy House of Charbonneau'
French landowners.
A w. COCHRANE, travelling sales
man, Abilene.
70 The Injured.
Ed. T. Hamilton. Salina
n H. GiIfillan, Beloit, both legs
broken and arm broken
Leon Stewart, Beloit.
Chas Rudolph, Cedar, Kan.
Mrs Ross Carleton, Beloit, both
legs broken and internal injuries.
a. L. Neff. Salina.
Miss Bess Grecian. daughter OF Nose
Grecian, Asherville, Kan
Helen Heacock, Beloit back IN
jured.
Chas Fell. jamestown.
r. S Grannick, Junction City
Henry Gehrke. Glasco.
Adam Keye, Stockton.
Dr. Chas. Payne. lecturer of Wau-
wa@osa. Wis.
T. j. Weick. Salina-
John Pertecost. Woodson.
John Ross Downs.
y. S. Harvey. Beloit.
George w w. Tczier, Salina, con-
ductor
Mrs f. c. Dean. Minnea polls
Ben Teben. Beloit.
Homer F.berle. Beloit
j. r. Smith, Wyoming.
Albert Reed. Salina, engineer, badly
cut.
BeIo.t. Kan. Jan. 15.-Three per-
sons were killed instantly and twenty
three others were injured. many so
seriousl they may die, when three
passenger cars of Union Pacific train
40. IL On the Beloit-Solomon branch
plunged off d bridge over Plum creek
three miles east of Beloit. The dis
aster occurred about 10 o'clock this
morning and was caused by a loose
br, en- rail.
The train. when the accident oc-
Cured. was running moderately fast
The engine and a baggage and mail
car passed safely over the bridge when
passengers were jerked and thrown
from their seats by the trucks of a
passenger coach leaving the tracks
after striking the broken rail.
Plunged Into Creek
The ca totte-ed and then plunged
into the creek. over the side of the
bridge, dragging the other two coaches
with it.
Screams of women mingled with the
hoarse shouts of men as the cars went
over. AS the pile of wreckage settled
the uninjured began to crawl out car
viii dows and the rescue of the dead
and injured began.
The Beloit Red Cross and every
available doctor and physician were
on their way to the wreck as soon as
the alarm had been spread. More
physicians were Immediately sum-
moned from surrounding towns, and
in a reasonably short time the injured
were being cared for, with Beloit peo-
pie throwing open their homes and
business houses for emergency hos
pitfalls.
Union Pacific Gave Quick Aid.
The Union Pacific was quick to send
help w II. Dad" Bascom with q
special train to which was attached
two sleepers, and John Greening
trainmaster at Salina, were on the
scene Il short time after the wreck
The Beloit hospital was filled this
afternoon with the injured.
Most of the injured were residents
of towns along the Beloit-Solomor
branch of the Union Pacific Several
had both legs broken. o, broken arms
o. internal injuries as the cars crashed
from the bridge. Some had arms and
legs cut off
The number who came out of the
disaster with nothing worse than pain
full bruises was small.
1t is considered a miracle that the
engine and mail car did not lead the
plunge into the creek. as the rail wa
unuOuDIeuly proken peloTe the tFdlI
approached. The train wrecked wa!
a southbound local running between
Beloit anG solomon.
Topeka plumbing establishment
knew nothing of Ross Carleton, re
ported to have lived here. The maj
had never been in the employ of loca
firms, and officers of the Topeka un
ion said his name had not been en-
rolled on their books. Neither
plumber nor plumbers helper by tn
name of Ross Carleton was known b,
local firms.
Arrest Rumanian Embassy.
London, Jan. 15.-The Rumanial
minister ut Petrograd and his entir