| Show TRAINS MEET IN BEAD MANS CUT I Seven Men Killed and at Least 1 a Dozen Badly Injured MOST DISASTROUS WRECK ENGINES BAGGAGE rAIL AND OTHER OAKS DEMOLISHED Seventy Hcnil 01 Steele Killed Injuries In-juries ti > the llnmnii Freight Jfenrly All ConJinprt to tlC Crews of the luO Trains Accident Was Caused By n Misinterpretation of Orders By the Freight Engineer Guthrie O T Feb 17Th Texas express and a through cattle train on the Santa Fe collided in Dead Mans Cut five miles south of here afc midnight mid-night Saturday night The freight was coming around a short curve so neither headlights could be seen until within thirty et of each other The passenger engineer jumped and saved his life as did the freight fireman fire-man Freight Engineer Charles Upleby jumped but his head struck the rocky side of the cut and he was killed Passenger Fireman Patrick Coldron was caught In the cab and scalded so badly he died this morning I Both engines baggage and mail cars and half a dozen freight cars 7cre demolished Seventy head of stock were killed The passenger coaches did not leave the track and no passengers pas-sengers were badly injured The injured are James Moorman freight conductor left arm broken Edward Kitchen passenger conductor con-ductor hand mashed and body badly bruised Passenger R B Reagle body badly bruised Baggageman George Mevllle scalded Mail Clerk Hutchins head cut Roadmaster McKinney bruised E Bridgeman John J English and H A Sprow bodies lacerated Harry Trower Kansas City stockyards stock-yards cut in the neck and face A Hahn fireman on freight sprained arm armL B Weidenheimer cuts in face and body The wreck will not be cleared so trains can go through until tomorrow I The wreck was caused by a misinterpretation I misinter-pretation of orders by the freight engineer en-gineer who thought he was to pass the passenger at Guthrie instead of at I Seward two miles south of the wreck |
