Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-08
MORE THAN SIXTY
MEET DEATH IN
MISSOURI WRECK
Passenger Train Crashes IN
to Rear End Of Local. Tele-
scoping Number Coaches.
One Hundred Injured

scoping Number Coaches,
One Hundred Injured
ST. LOUIS, August By Assoc
ISOLATED Press. )-More than sixty
persons were killed and about 100
injured tonight when fast train NO.
of the Missouri- Pacific, en- route
from Fort Worth, Texas, crashed
into the rear cf a local passenger
train known as No. 81 at sulphur
Springs, 26 miles south of here.
At midnight two trainloads OF
dead were on thes' way to this
civ. carrying also a number OF the
injured who are able to be removed:
Four rear coaches of the local
were telescoped by the fast train
and went crashing down into a RAJ
Vine about 80 feet below the tracks,
a tangled mass IF steel and WOOD,
from which came the cries of the
injured and the dying.
Only q few witnesses saw this
crash. These witnesses declared En-
gineer Glenn attempted to save
his life by jumping when he saw
tn. accident was unavoidable. The
fireman, Ed Tinsley, however, re-
manned at his post. He was badly
injured
Horror and gloom lowered over
the little village of Sulphur Springs
tonight. Mingled wit, the prayers
of the dying, spoken in outbursts of
delirious fever, came the comforts
ing an consoling words of the vii.
layers.
Mumbling the Lords prayer in
her deliriunl, one little girl was seen
expire before she could end her
plea to God. Not far from the dy-
ing girl lay the father Of the four
D.gonia children, alongside him his
four beloved ones. Witnesses saw
the sem.-conscious man reach over
to draw - nine-months-old baby
to his aide. When found the little
one had died =. his arms with the
other three crying for mercy and
relief from their singing hurts.
Four rear coaches of the local
train, known as No. 32, were teie-
scoped, bulletin announced. The
accident occurred at the railroad
station where the local passenger
had stopped to take water. Engi-
neer Glenn, on the fast train, was
w
J. e. Tinsely, was badly injured.
Most Of the injured, it was said,
were boy scouts, who were returns
ing from their summer camp at
Ironton, Mo-, about 100 miles south
of the scene of the disaster.
The names OF the dead are not
known and many are said to- have
been so badly mangled that identifir
kfrya oily nsf.
Relief trains from here. Poplar
Bluff and DeSoto were sent to the
scene of the wreck, carrying all
physicians available from the towns
and cities along the route. The re-
manned by union men now on
strike. who offered their services
when the report Of the disaster
reached that town.
Great Confusion
Because of the confusion and the
debris, the relief work was greatly
hindered and only slowly could the
injured be taken from the wreck
age. Among the first Of the dead
to be taken from the demolished
coaches were Rev. V. o. Penley. OF
|. DeSoto, Mo-, Miss Irene Moon, OF
6SLuSD N1O.I dllO ILli5lAiCSl 1i~hAs
One of the coaches was thrown
into a creek, which runs along the
track, and was completely denol-
ished.
The fast train was en- route from
I TT Worth, Texas, and the local
from Poplar Bluff.
At midnight the following bulel.
tin was issued by the Missouri Pa
cific officials here:
about 1870 p. m., train No. A.
engine No. 5,312. in charge Of Con-
ductor GREGG, Engineer Glenn.
struck rear end of No. 80, III charge
of Conductor j.. A. Long and En-
gineer Cross, while No. so was taxi
ing water at Sulphur Springs, tele-
scoping four rear coaches on No. 81
train and derailing No. AS engine.
Engineer Glenn, on No. 4, was
killed, and Fireman e. Tinsley bad
l~ injured. No other casualties on
No. 4. Last reports indicate prob
ably thirtyfive or forty killed on
No. 30 an dabout sixty injured. We
are running relief trains from st.
Louis, DeSoto and Poplar Bluff,
also all doctors that we can get hold
of. Wires all knocked down, but
linesmen now making repairs.
PlOughed Through Coaches
Steel coaches Of the express spin
tered the wooden coaches of the ac-
commodation as it plowed its way
through the wooden coaches of the
accommodation from the rear, dump
ing passengers and debris over a
quarter of q mile area, and tearing
up the roadbed, twisting rails into
a tangled mass resembling a knot
ted bunch of huge ropes.
Passengers in the coach which
rolled down the embankment into
the creek were reported drowned, as
they were pinned beneath wreckage.
A few Boy Scouts, who miractI-
lousy escaped, rushed to the aid OF
the injured. and worked frantically
to assist their less fortunate COM
panions.
The local was composed of seven
coaches, while the fast train consist.
ed of twelve. ~
Scalding steam from the engine of
the flyer, which was ditched, es-
capped into the wooden coaches it
had splintered, cooking victims in
the wrecked cars. Axes and picks
from the emergency kits aboard the
plyer and from equipment of the
boy scouts were put to use by pas
sengers who were not too greatly
excited or shocked to aid in the
rescue work.
The railroad station and express
room is arranged as a temporary
Private automobiles serve
as ambulances and private homes
have been opened to the injured.
Numerous ex-service men in this VII
vinity aided in the, first-aid work.
Hundreds Of tourists and annual