The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1922-08-11
Al BODIES FOUND
IN TRAIN WRECK
Believed That at Least Fifty Are
Killed in Missouri Crash.
HUNDRED OTHERS INJURED
Heavy Fast Train Composed of Steel
Coaches Plows Through Wooden
Cars of a Local at Sulphur
Springs.
HUNDRED OTHERS INJURED

Sulphur Springs, Mo-, Aug. IAN
engineer was reading his orders and
failed to see danger signal ahead.
His crack passenger trai-4 crashed into
Il local train, snuffing out 80 lives and
injuring more than hundred.
This is the story of rail tragedy.
Forty-one bodies have been recovered
and more than hundred injured have
been sent to st. Louis hospitals. 1t is
believed from ten to fifteen more
bodies will be found under the debris
Many of the injured cannot recover,
doctors say.
-Four rear coaches of the local train,
known as No. 80, were telescoped.
The accident occ rred at the railroad
station, where thelocal passenger had
stopped to take water Engineer Glenn
on the fast train was instantly killed,
while his fireman, j. e. Tinsley. was
badly injured
Many Boy Scouts injured.
Most of the injured, it was said,
were boy scouts, who were 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 oe 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 1t was said he was 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.
Official Version of Wreck.
The following bulletin has been is
sued by the Missouri Pacific officials
here:
"About 1920 D. 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
J. 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. 4s
engine.
Engineer Glenn on No killed and
Fireman 3. Tinsley badly injured. No
indicate probably 35 or 40 killed on
No. 30 train and about 60 injured
Steel Cars Splinter Wooden Ones.
Steel coaches of the express spin.
tered the wooden coaches of the &C.
commodation as it plowed it's way
through the wooden coaches of the &C.
commodation from the rear, dumping
passengers and debris over a quarter
of mile area, and tearing up the
roadbed, twisting rails into q 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 frantica1ly to assist
their less fortunate companions.
Scalding steam from the engine of
the flyer, which was ditched, escaped
into the wooden coaches 1t had spin.
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.