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Show ON Jl RAIL. Three Wrecks in One Night Besult ia Awful Casualties. i TRAIN ROBBERS DERAIL A SANTA FE TRAIN NEAR OSAGE. Four Persons Killed and Twenty-nvo . Seriously Injured. A DEADLY COLLISION ON TH2 PITTSBURG & FT. WAYNE. A Chicago Express Collide With 3 Freight Train. Hilling: Seven Persons Per-sons and Woundio; Several Other A Section on the Pennsylvania Express Runs Into Another. K.111-ins K.111-ins the Engineer of One and Fatally Fa-tally Hurting the Engineer of the Other and the Firemen of Both Sickening; Incidents and Details Topeka, Kan., Sept. 21. The regular easft bound night express on the Santa Fe was wrecked by train robbers three miles west of Ossge City this morning at 3 o'clock, j Five persons were killed and a number eeri ously injured. Chicago, Sept. 21. Telegrams received , at Atchison offices in this city from General '' Manager Robinson at Topeka axe to the effect that the train from San Francisco i was running on time when it was wrecked near Osage City this morning. The engineer and fireman, were killed and several passengers injured. No names are given. The tool house at Barclay station had been broken open during dur-ing the night, and a rail was removed from the track at 1 a. point where the wreck occurred. oc-curred. The entire, train was wreckti with the exception of three sleepers. ... There is no clue as to who reaaovedthe rail and no positive pos-itive evidence that the object of the deed, was robbery. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 21. A special to the Star from Topeka says the wrecked train consisted of baggage, express and mail cars, two day coaches, two chair cais and I three sleepers. It was thrown over an embankment embank-ment three feet high, and the first six cars were telescoped. Four persons were killed outright and twenty-five seriously injured. THE KILLED AND INJURED. The killed were Express Messenger Fran Baxter of Kansas City ; Express Guardsman Bloomenthai. ofi Mexico; Fireman James Chaddicks of Topeka; Engineer Ed Moter of Topeka. Most of the injured are Western people, but among the number was Mary Lyman of.. Bloomington, Ills., who is badly injured and bruised about the head and face. C. T. Wordlaw of Elliott, Ills., is also badly bruised. The wreck occurred at a small bridga where there was a heavy down grade. Tha train was running forty miles an hour and it was impossible for the engineer to sear i the misplaced rails in time to check the speed of the train. The coaches piled one over another untiL. the baggage and express cars were completely com-pletely hidden from view. Men, women and children were piled over each other, , ; cauarht in the teaU and thrown through the 1 windows. Belief first arrived from EaTporia-An EaTporia-An examination of ths track shows the fisri plates had been carefully removed and bolt ' taken out and spikes drawn from ten tie4 and the rail bent over to the inside. Robbery was unquestionably the object, a the train carried one million dollars ia. currency en route to Mexican central head, quarters in Boston. A spot was found whers three inenhad laiuconcealted in the grass and their tracks were discovered leading frota this spot to the track. The passengers wer. brought to Tooeka at 10 o'clock this morn.! ing. Some of the wounded could not be re moved and several will probably die. A DEADLY COLLISION. Seven Persons Lome Tbeir Lives Outrijrhb on the "itsbnrjr & Fort Wayne Road. Shrevb, Ohio, Sept 21. The Chicago ex, press and a freight on the Pittsburg & ForS Wayne road, collided on full speed here this morning. Both engines were ditched and ground to splinters, followed by nel.l a r inn pynrpM rra Kn vr era (rti ' wv., - ' ' t smoker, and one coach and five freight cars. Seven were killed outright, three seriously injured and others slightly hurt. Tho killed are, both firemen, one freight brakeman aui two passengers. Following is the list of killed: J. Smith, fireman express train; N. Hammond, fireman freight train; A. C. Glenn, brakeman freight train ; J. D. Patterson, Pennsylvania; J. P. Mann, Ohio, aud II. T. Allen, Ohio, postal clerks"; J. D. Rhodks, Mahoning, Ohio; H. H. Brown, Huntington, Indiana, and Mr. Lauknock, Mtissiilon, Ohio. There are missing two ladies, supposed to be from Espeyville, Pa., a lady and s child, supposed to be from Alliance, Ohio, and D. E. Keesc, postal clerk, of Massillon, Ohio. horrible. The force of the collision must have been terrific, as the postal, express ami smoking cars were completely telescoped. There were five clerks in the postal car and four were instantly killed, and the other fatally wounded. Fire was communicated from the engine to the postal cars and iu a short time the baggage, postal car, smoker anl day coach Were reduced ' to ashes. The Pullman cars escaped. Two or three passengers pass-engers in the smoker and day coaches were consumed in sight of the crowd striving to save them. . AND 1KT ANOTHER. Four Victims Pay tho Penalty of a Collision Col-lision on tho Pennsylvania. , - . Lancaster, Pa., Sept, 21. The seeoni section of the westward bound express oa the Pennsylvania railroad ran into the first section at Rheims station yesterday afternoon after-noon and both trains were badly wrecked-One wrecked-One engineer was killed, the other engineer and both firemen fatally hurt. No passea. gera were injured. ' |
