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Show Tail-End Collision on il Missouri Pacific. il Twenty-Three Other Per-' irl sons More er Less Seri- il H ously Hurt. H i iH Blame Placed on. Engineer, Conductor I T and Flagman, for General Negligence. 3CANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 30. Three per- sons wero killed and twenty-three Injured In a tall-end collision on tho Missouri Pa- . , clflc railway at Tipton, Mo., early today. ' Tho first section, of westbound train No. ! 3 was standing fn front of tho station after having taken water, when It wa.? ' crashed Into by the second section. 1 IH The locomotlvo of second No. 3 split tho ' Pullman car Topaz, containing four pas- ' ecngcrs, two-thirds of Its length, killing . ', and Injuring tho number given. There ' wero twenty-two passengers In tho noxt car ahead, but beyond a few scratches i , they escaped Injury. Tho dead: 1 MRS. BRIGHT WALKER, Lowlsburg, ' IH MRS. MARGARET BURKE, Kansas CHv. , J. W. BAGBY. secretary of the Linotype jH Publishing company, Kansas City. List of Injured. ; W. J. BLACK of Topeko, Kan., general ) .H passongcr agent of tho Santa Fo, right ,) collar bone broken, punctured wound In .! check, abrasion of forehead, wronched back, loft leg Injured and cut In many 1 places; will recover. jH MRS. W. J. BLACK, Topeka, compound ) 1 comminuted fracturo of right ankle, serl- ) ous. with possibility of loss of foot; In-clscd In-clscd wounds of face and scalp, con- IH tuslons and slight Incisions, Involving arms and hnnds: will recover. J. S. CALFBE of St. Louis, scrlouslv. THOMAS RICHARDSON, Portland. Or., slightly. jH L. B. STONER, Now York, seriously. . IH L. B. TWIND. Now York, seriously. IH A. A. SELIGMAN, Now Y'ork, seriously. Those of. tho passengers- who wero-not i seriously injured continued their journey, , , whllo tho moro seriously hurt wero tokori to tho company's hospital In St. Louis. JM Tho train crows escaped Injury. ( Engineer and Conductor. Tho blame, according to Superintendent W. J. McKeo. wjjo Went at onco to tho ' IH scene of the wreck, rests with tho engl- neer and conductor of tho socond section. 1 ' Thoy wero running twenty-five miles an IH hour, when thoy should havo had their i train under control. Tho first section of IH castbound passenger No. 10 was stand-Ing stand-Ing on the sidetrack, and Engineer Ram- 'M soy of second No. 3 says the headlight of No. 10 prevented his seeing the red light '1 on first No 3 Tho Coroner's verdict blames tho flag- man of tho first section for not propcrlv llagglng the second section, and tho engf-neer engf-neer of tho second section for coming into i tho station In a careless manner nnd for not having his engine under control. i Knocked Off Railroad Bridge. REDDING. Cat. Oct. SO. As tho Oregon express was running north this morning near a brldgo forty-two miles south of Delta, two men carrying bundles, having tho general appearance of tramps, who wore walking toward the train, tried to cross tho brldgo before tho train could get to It. Ono of them succeeded, but tho other was caught and either leaped to tho rocks below or was struck by the locomotlvo and knocked off tho bridge. Tho train 1 crew say that ho leaped. His neck was 1 ' broken by tho fall. His bundle floated '.. down the rlvor and thero was nothing on IH the body to establish his Identity. His ' comrado hurried away and hius not been 1 1 found since. |
