The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1922-08-10
MANY ARE KILLED
AS TRAINS CLASH
THIRTY-slx PASSENGERS KILLED
AND SCORES INJURED WHEN
TRAINS CRASH
Wreck 10 Attributed to Failure OF En-.
sIneer to Heed Signal; Work Of
Removing Dead and injured
10 oruesome Task

Sulphur Springs, Mo.-raiiure OF an
engineer to heed block signal caused
the rear-end collision on the Missouri
racific Saturday night in which thir.
ty-six persons were killed and about
lSS injured, twenty-five seriously. &C.
cording to John Cannon. assistant gem
eral manager Of the road.
Train No. 4, fast passenger. YES
tibuled, steel train running at full
speed. crashed into No. 80, a local
composed OF five wooden day coaches
q baggage and an express car, as the
engine was taking on water with the
coaches stretching back on q trestle
over Glaise Creek.
The impact hurled two of the local
coaches down a fifty-foot embank.
ment edging the Mississippi and tele-
scoped four other coaches, crushing
number OF the passengers to death
In their falls. Both trains were run
ming behind time and the fast pas
senger, running from Fort Worth.
Texas, to st. Louis, carried $50 pas
sengers and the local 100 persons.
According to Mr.. Cannon, Matt @.
Glenn OF St Louis, engineer Of the
fast passenger, failed to heed a block
signal warning him that the track was
not clear ahead. Glenn. 81 years of
age, an engineer for thirty-seven years
without a black mark against his re.
cord, was killed when he jumped from
the cab just before the crash. Edward
Tinsley. also OF st. Louis, fireman OF
No. 4, remained at his post and was
injured seriously.
Engineer eileen shortly before ar
irving in Sulphur Springs received or.
ders ION the run" to pull over ON a
siding at Cliff Cave. ten miles north OF
here, to allow Sunshine Special No.
l." en- route from st. Louis to Texas
points, to pass, and Mr.. Cannon ex.
planned the engineer failed to heed
the block signal because he apparent
ly was reading these orders when he
passed the block.
Just south OF the scene OF the dis
aster there is a curve in the road,
which cut OFF view OF the local train
on the trestle. Missouri Pacific offi-
cials, however, emphasized that the
block signals were operating in per.
feet order. and Engineer Glenn should
have slowed his train down so that
he could have come to a halt almost
instantly.
The last body was removed from
the debris early Sunday. A group OF
rescuers, kerosene torches lighting
their way, came down the track to
the little railroad station with the in
ert figure on litter. improvised from
boards OF the splintered wreckage.
The railroad tracks parallel the Mis-
slssippi river and the trestle on which
the disaster occurred spans Glaise
Greek where II enters the river. AS
a result, a report was current that a
number OF bodies were hurled into
the Mississippi There was no way OF
verifying this report, however. Rescue
work was interferred with by lack OF
proper light. This little village Is
without electricity. and the rescue
workers and morbidly curious made
their way among the mass OF twisted
steel and crnmbmled wooden coaches
by the aid Of kerosene torches and
lights on sticks. Thousands Of per-
sons visited here late Sunday night
to view the wreck and roads were
blocked for radius OF three miles.