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Show burned. Mail Agent C. L. Doeger is missing and is supposed to have been burned to death. A TAIL END COLLISION, Nine Persons Seriously Injured and the Engineers Fatally Bart. Kansas City, Oct. 21. A serious tail end wreck occurred this morning on the Union Pacific near Armourdale. Nine persons were seriously injured and the engineer fatally. The eastbound freight which leaves the depot before the Union Pacific passeuger train was delayed near the scene of the accident, and, as thero was a very heavy fog, placed torpedoes on the track to warn the following train. The passenger pas-senger engineer, warned by the torpedoes, stopped his train," and before be-fore the flagman could be sent back to work the east bound Rock Island trains following it, it crashed into the Pullman sleeper of the Union Pacific. The Rock Island engine was completely wrecked. The engineer was buried under un-der the debris. The fireman jumped out and received severe bruises. The damage is estimated at $60,000. .The following are the injured: Pat Clellan, engineer, will die. John Duff, fireman, fractured jaw and internal injuries. Edward Jackson, colored, both legs broken. J. H. Gray, son of the Pullman conductor, con-ductor, ankle sprained and bruised. J. F. Kinney, of Chicago, bruised about the back. J. A. Lapshis, of Lincoln, knee badly cut. ' John Driscoll, of Osaqua, Kansas, leg broken. C. Jameise, of Springfield, Ills., a special agent of the census bureau, back sprained and bruised. The injured were taken to the hospital. GRIMJJEATH An Awful Chapter of Railway Accidents from the South. IN THE DARKNESS OF A TUNNEL. .A Forgotten Pullman Causes an Awful Horror in Alabama, t . - ; "Two Passenger Trains are Hurled . Into Freights with Appalling 7 Fatalities. THE DEAD AND THE DYING. Eodies of the Luckless Victims Buried Under the Burning Wreckage. The ForgetfulnesB of Trainmen in Both Oases Ecsponsible for the Awful Disasters. Birmingham, Oct. 22. A passenger train on the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham railroad which left here at 0 o'clock last night, west bound, went out leaving a sleeper and its conductor in the station. Discovering the fact six miles out of town, the engineer began backing into Birmingham. At Thomas' furnace, three miles out of the city the backing train met an outgoing freight, and there was a terrible ter-rible collision. Several passengers in the rear coach were killed and a number num-ber wounded. The wounded have been brought to Birmingham. They are:. Mrs. W.. F. Wagner and two children, child-ren, of Greonville, S. C, badly scalded, r J. O. Fhankxin, drummer, from! Nashville, Tenn,, dying. . , George W. Davis of Shell Mound, Tenn., leg broken and otherwise hurt. J. H. Finneix of New Orleans, back Wt. J. A. Taylor of Magnolia, Ark.; head inashed and eye knocked out. - r.W.B. FlannIGAN of Memphis, slightr ly hurt. '' " W. C. Burton of Cordova, Ala., scalded and badly mashed. E. P. Rose of Linna, Ala., arm toroken. Rev. H. G. Smith of Jasper, ribs broken and dangerously hurt. Dr. Sakford of Hot Springs, Ark., slightly hurt. A. L. Hill of Birmingham, slightly hurt. Hon. B. R. Long of Cordova, bruised. U. D. Townlee and Walker Town-lee Town-lee of Townlee, Ala., slightly hurt. Four or five dead are reported under the wreck, but the names have not yet been ascertained. Two persons were killed. They are: ' S. D. Franklin, a drummer of Nashville, Nash-ville, John Killian, the fireman. MET IN THE TUNNEL. An Awful Accident on the Cincinnati A Southern Railway. Cincinnati, Oct. 21. A disastrous collision occurred at 4:40 o'clock this morning on the Cincinnati & Southern railway in a tunnel a quarter of a mile north of Sloan's Valley station, between a freight and passenger train. The latter lelt Cincinnati, at 8 p. ni. Another An-other passenger train left Cincinnati an hour earlier. ' Both of these were held at Somerset, Ky., two hours or more on account of a freight wreck south of that place last night. When the track was clear the foremost Cincinnati train started out from Somerset first, and met and passed safely the northbound freight. Then the other passenger started out. When the first Cincinnati train passed pass-ed out the crew of the freight appeared to have overlooked the fact that another an-other was to follow and they pulled out and started northward. Less than a quarter of a mile away they entered the tunnel, one-sixth of a mile long. It was the most hopeless place a train ever meet death. The engines of the two trains dashed into each other and the cars followed. A horrible conflagration confla-gration followed. No description of the scenes is given. Only the bare results were telegraphed to the officials of the road here Firemen Gould and Welsh, Brakeman JohnE. Montgomery, Express Messenger Messen-ger Edward Ruffner, and the mail agent were killed.' Engineer Taylor of the passenger train, and M. D. Timlott of the freight were badly burned. The baggagemas-ler baggagemas-ler was injured. No passengers were killed. If any were injured their names have not yet been ascertained. Later Young Paine, a commercial traveler, had both legs crushed, and has since died. The delay to passenger trains by another an-other wreck was caused by a mistake of the engineer and conductor of the freight train. Fortunately the passenger train had not entirely gone into the tunnel when the crash came and so the three sleep-era, sleep-era, which did not leave the track, served as a means of escape for the passengers. All of the train except the three sleepers was burned. Mail Agent Gayle is living but badly |
