The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-08-07

4 @tfHrs W ffNff"' WV" - ~te s~~"'"f
NJ, i.auls. Mo. Aag THE unlon
station here wan a scene of hotrus
sunday as sraina No s2 and No
pulled IN with the survivors and vies
time of the Sulphur Springs siisaaseF
such as ~ Louis has pfahably not
Witnessed since sha disastrous e5-
clone ~ ixssb
A crowd of nearly 1000 mingled
with slghiseerM. relatives and friends
ef vicsima asorm~d the gasoa AT the
train sheds and pleaded With The ia-
lllte TO permit Them entrance. faees
rcfleeting the terror ot an ansiei.
.pa,ed death or injury, faces gray
with anxiety. peared through tlls
grating iu desperate efforts 70 casch
gilmpses of ahf0uded bodies as they
wefe forced 10 waiting automobiles,
For hours prevloue 20 the arrival
of the death trains, crowds snFsai
Through tho station. fransicaily seek
| lnF the world that mlKhi allay shs
lYears that we're conauming them
Train No 80 arrived at $50. ~
loved by No. an hour later. No
"a carried nlne dead and more than
Thirty survivors, Waiting amhs-
Iianrea w~e backed 70 the eoaehra,
and police carried and helped the ~
ljuled into the ambalanceF. in vhIea
they were rnshad TO hospitals IN q
lhasgnge car woman lay ON an army
cot saying the rosary heads.
| Aiias I.annie walker, waitress ~
syoare old. % 49, Louir wa@ a hwulr"
of the teiescoI cd local, according 20
fellow passengers. She waa pas
senscr of the third car from the rear
Iof tho local train. steel contsruetrd
coach which waA thrown tom the
track when the crash occurred or
The thirty .odd passengers In thla ce'
MlFa walker. o A, BriAcoe of Coz
iumbIa Mo. and y l.. LamnA'a OF
lsltser Lake. Mo, we're the only per.
sons not seriously injured Or tempe \
raflly disabled They cleared IN"
coach of all injured before other he'p
Iarnyed Speaking " The disaster
Aiiss Walker said
| Heard Passengers Scream
Il heard the passengers In the
coaehes ahead cry out In fear aa shos
lglimpsed the onrushang train bvN'
ing down on as. aud saw mon inapinE
from the Windows and yssttbulen
None OF us had time 20 leap from our
coach, and the next instant we we're
hurled from the track. The coach
landed on tha side | was sisting on.
ana was not thrown as were thoss
sitting on the opposite side. When
found / had only been shaken and
fhraissd was not frightened ana
climbed out through windew Of TIE
upper side 10 see II the wreck WAS
raichIng fira. then climbed back
and helped Mr.. fsrIscoe and M't
/ Lamnitx remove the Injured
I Miss Walker refused medical aid,
ar did Bsisco and lamnitz. and went
/ 10 her home Immediately after ar
riving In st Louis She was return
lng on the local from sialt with hcr
| parents al Fredericktown.
Mall Car chsrnsI Nouss
| Tho mail car OF train No. I. which
f, arrived at the station al iig .. ms,
was charnal house On wheels. VII
teen dead. thirteen or whom we're
women and children. wers piled IN
hurried heaps on mail xaeka aud
ltorn clothing. Seven survivors lay
with the dead. one. q woman occn
pying cot alongside heap Of eight
female victims All the yictims A.
pat entity had met death instantly.
their Appearances being THAT of he'd.
.es from which the life had been lit-
orally smashed by the terrific fores
OF the ips" = The injured. four mel.
and two \, were terribly mans.
led and unconscious.
The terrific crash and spIInterlng
Of the rear coaches by the Iccomo.
tive OF No. was the first warning of
the disaster TO many passengers IN
coaches near the center and forwarj
sections Of No. a. w. y. Morton.
train auditor on No. q, said hs was
In cne OF the steel coaches near the