Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-08-11
81 LOSE LIVES IN
RAILWAY WRECK
Hundred Other Persons Are In
jured in Terrific Crash Near
St. Louis.
HEAVY TRAIN HITS LOCAL
steel Cars PIow Through Wooden
Coaches Of the Lighter Train
Believed Engineer, Who Was
Killed, Overlooked Signal.

Sulphur Springs, Mo-, Aug. San
engineer was reading his orders and
failed TO see a danger signal ahead
His crack passenger train crashed into
a local train, shutting out 81 lives and
injuring more than hundred.
This is the story Of rail tragedy.
All Of the bodies have been recovered
and more than hundred injured have
been sent to st. Louis hospitals.
-Four rear coaches of the local train,
known as No. 80, were telescoped.
The accident occurred at the railroad
station, where the local passenger had
stopped to take water. Engineer Glenn
on the fast train was instantly killed,
while his fireman, j. e. Tinsley, was
badly injured. The entire population
of Sulphur Springs aided in caring for
the injured.
Most of the injured, it was said.
were boy scouts, who we're returning
from their summer camp at Ironton,
Mo-, about 100 miles south of the
scene Of the disaster.
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 relief train from
Poplar Bluff was manned by union
men now on strike, who offered their
services when the report of the disas-
ter reached that town.
The engineer of the fast train, it was
said, had received an order as his train
passed through Riverside, flag sta
ton several miles south Of Sulphur
Springs. It was said heswas reading
the order when his train passed the
block signal and Inadvertently over
looked the signal to stop.
Because of the confusion and the
debris, the relief work was greatly
hindered and only slowly could the in
jured be taken from the wreckage
The following bulletin has been is
sued by the Missouri Pacific officials
here:
About 1920 p. m. train No. 4, en-
CINE No. 5312, in charge of Conductor
GREGG, Engineer Glenn, struck rear
end of No. 80 in charge of Conductor
]. A. Long and Engineer Cross while
No. 80 was taking water at Sulphur
Springs, telescoping four rear coaches
on No. 80 train and derailing No. rs
engine.
Engineer Glenn on No. 4 killed and
Fireman E. Tinsley badly injured. No
other casualties on No. 4. Last reports
indicate probably 30 or 40 killed on
No. 80 train and about 60 injured"
Steel coaches of the express splin-
tered the wooden coaches Of the ac-
commodation as it plowed its way
through the wooden coaches Of the ac-
commodation from the rear, dumping
passengers and debris over a quarter
Of a mile area, and tearing up the
roadbed twisting rails into a tangled
mass resembling a knotted bunch of
huge ropes. The local was composed
of seven coaches, while the fast train
consisted of twelve.
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 miraculously
escaped, rushed to the aid of the in
jured and worked frantically to assist
their less fortunate companions.
Scalding steam from the engine of
the flyer which was ditched escaped
into the wooden coaches it had splin-
tered, cooking victims in the wrecked
cars. Axes and picks from the emer-
gency kits aboard the flyer and from
equipment of the boy scouts were put
to heroic use. by passengers who were
not too greatly excited or shocked to
aid in the rescue work.