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Show 225 PffiSONS RBPOllB BEAD ffl WRECK ' WHOLE TRAIN PLUNGES IN RIVER; PEOPLE ' DROWNED : . LIE RATS IN A TRAP . . i . Rock Island Passenger Goes Through . Bridge in Oklahoma; Conflicting Reports Re-ports as to Loss of Life; Freight on Santa fe Reported Wrecked. WICHITA, Kas., Sept 18. A telephone message from Hennessey, OKIa., eight miles from the scene of the wrecK, says all the cars excepting the rear Pall-man Pall-man are in the Cimmaron river, and that 225 persons were carried into the water. Six persons are reported safe. OKLAHOMA CITY, OKIa., Sept. 18. A special to the Times-Journal from Lawton, OKIa., says: The local RocK Island office is in receipt of vague news of the plunging' of the northbound RocK Island passenger train into the Cimmaron river between Dover Do-ver and Kingfisher, about 5 o'tfocK this morning. It is reported that the engine is out of sight in the river, and both engineer and fireman are Killed and probably proba-bly many lives lost. It is said that the bridge gave way. Details of the disaster are meager. WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 18. A dispatch received here from the scene of the Hock Island wreck near Dover, Okla., asserts that only three passengers on the train were saved. The wires were carried down with the bridge. No details are obtainable here. Another dispatch reports a similar accident on the St. Louis & San -Francisco road in Woods county, Oklahoma, midway between Okeene and Ames, where a heavy freight " . train is reported to have gone through another bridge ovei the Cimarron river. It is stated that the engineer, fireman and head brakeman cannot be found. ' OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Sapt. 18. I A special to the Times-Journal from I Enid this afternoon, stated that fully i one hundred people were drowned this morning at 5 o'clock in the wreck on the Chicago, Eock Island & Pacific, which went through a bridge into the Cimarron river at Dover, twenty-seven miles south of Enid. The engine and i all cars, with the exception of the Pullmans Pull-mans went into the raging stream. It is reported that 100 passengers were in the chair cars and all were drowned, with the exception of one man, Lloyd Zeist, who escaped after wading and swimming a distance of two miles. Four other men were seen to fall from the top of one of the cars in the water and were drowned. No names are obtainable at this time. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.. Sept. 18. A report has Just been received from Kingfisher, stating that many people have been rescued at Dover, a relief train having arrived there from th scene of the terrible accident, which be fell the Chicago, Bock Island & Pacific passenger train this morning. Many people more dead than alive have been placed in the hotels at Kingfisher, King-fisher, while a number of dead bodie; have been taken to the morgue there. A number of Kingfisher people were on the train, and have not been found TOPEKA. Kan.. Sept. 18. The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific office here reports that the engine, baggage car. mail car and one coach of the northbound passenger passen-ger train No. 12 are buried in the bed ot the Cimarron rtver. just south of Dover. Okla. The smoker is partly in the river. T'.vo Pullmans, a chair car and a coach composing the rest of the train remaiaJ on the track. The train went through the bridge. a . about 5 o'clock this morning. High -water had weakened th structure, and the engineer, being unaware of the fact, dashed onto the bridge with usual speed. Th engineer, fireman, expressman anT. postal clerks escaped onto a pile of driftwood and thence to the land. The. . . fireman suffered a broken arm. " ' The offices here are unable to state how many passengers were In the coach and whether any escaped. A brief message mes-sage was received here from the conductor con-ductor in charge of the train. The names of the train crew in charge are unknown, j Relief trains have been sent from ! Chickasha. Okla.. and Hcrlng. Kan. - " |