The Topeka state journal., 1922-07-22
Passenger Trains Crash at a
Town Near Springfield.
Engineer on Frisco Train 8 Is
Among Those Killed.
MIXUP IN ORDERS WAS CAUSE
News of Accident Obtained
With Great Difficulty Today.
Wreck Occurred About 4 O'clock
This a. m.-Traffic Tied Up.

Springfield. NO. y uly A~A6-AASSA
c. H. Ring of Sapulpa, Okla, and four
passengers, all members of one fam
lily. were killed and several injured at
$3.50 O'Clock this morning when st.
I.ouis-San Francisco railroad passen-
ger trains No. 2. Texas special east
bound, and No. 9. Meteor. westbound
met in a head-on crash two hundred
yards east of Logan, Mo. where No
was waiting on the main line.
The list of dead and injured follow:
Tho Dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Hammer.
Stoutland. Mo.
Two small sisters of Mrs Hammer.
named West.
Engineer Ring of Sapulpa.
The Injurcc.
Benny West, brother of Mrs. Ham,
mer.
Bruner Hammer. 12-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hammer, who were
killed.
Marjorie Hammer. six-month-old
daughter of the dead parents.
The firemen of the two trains. and
the engineer of No. who saved their
lives by jumping. were also injured.
but not seriously.
All of the passengers were shaken
up by the collision.
Another May Die.
ALI of the seriously injured passen-
gers were rusl-ed to the Frisco hos
pftaI here On a train which arrived in
Springfield about 10 a m. Bruner
Hammer. 12-year-old son of the deal
parents, was not expected to live,
when brought here. His skull was
fractured and re had suffered serious
Nr,N. 1T sraf aYF-fa
Altho the baggage coach of No 2
was telescoped, an auditor and an en-
ploye riding in it miraculously es-
capped death as did the Hammer baby,
which lay for four hours in its dead
mothers arms.
All of the passengers who were
killed were in the chair car of No 2,
which was eastbound to St Louis
from San Antonio. and is due here at
4:20 a N.
1t was standing still on the main
line at Logan, and Engineer Donahoe
seeing No coming from the east,
had sent the brakeman to throw the
switch when No. crashed into the
standing train.
Donnhoe Saved Many Lives.
Engineer Donahoe probably saved
the lives of many of the passengers
on No by releasing the air brakes,
thereby allowing the train to bound
backward two or three car lengths
Engineer Ring, who was killed, had
succeeded in putting on the brakes of
his train, and had evidently attempted
to jump as he was caught with his
head and part of his limbs out of the
cab.
None of the bodies could be re-
moved from the wreck until several
hours after. The wrecker and crew
from Springfield arrived at the scene
OF the accident about 1880 this
morning passengers of the wrecked
train said. Before the arrival of the
wrecker. it was impossible to move
any OF the coaches, which were de-
molished.
Special to Scene.
A special train carrying T. A. Ham
ilton, a vice president of the Frisco
and H. L. Worman. superintendent of
motive power. left for logan soon
after the report of the wreck was re-
ceived here.
There is no telegraph office or long
distance telephone exchange at Logan,
and news of the accident IS being OBJ
tained with great difficulty.
Information has been received at
the Frisco general offices here that
bodies of persons injured in the wreck
at Logan this morning will arrive here
about 10 o'clock this morning. In
jured passengers will be brought to
the Frisco hospital here fer treatment
A list of cacualties was not avail
ablc at 9 O'Clock