Show SEVEN DIEt DIE 1 IN COLLISION NEBRASKA IN Freight Hits Passenger at Fort Fart CrooK Ten Miles s I From Omaha OMAHA OL Neb b. b Oct 36 Seven 16 Seven people eople were killed and twenty-one twenty inJured in- in lured four of them seriously in a collision col eol- between Missouri l Pacific passenger ger train No Xo 01 northbound en route for this city and anti a fast frei freight ht train The Time wreck wreCK which occurred at Fort Crook ten miles south of here early Sunday morning is believed to have resulted from a misunderstanding of orders on th lim the part of the time freight crew A passenger er train due to leave this city for the tho south about the time of the accident was converted into a relief train and sent to the time scene of th tha the a accident and later Jiter returned here with the tho uninjured and several of those who were sli slightly injured All of these were these sent on their w way y The rhe more seriously injured are hein being cared eared for army hospital at Fort Crook Cook Governor Gilchrist of of- Flor Florida da who was a passenger on the north bound train was uninjured The Dead f f. W. W City 0 p W. W KEELER brakeman n Atchi- Atchi son Kan MRS FRED RO RO nO Nebraska Nebraska ka City NN year S-year- old dau daughter of Mrs A. A W. W SPRAGUE St. St Joseph Mo 1 MISS riss FRANCIS LILLIAN KANKA Washington Kan Ran Unidentified Seriously Injured Fre 1 ed W. W banker Nebraska ka City wife and child among mon killed Emma Harvey Kansas City W. W G. G Richards Maynard Neb Nob John lohn Scott passenger en engineer ineer Among the less seriously injured are Mrs 1 Hope Conway Alameda Cal flesh wound on lc leg Miss Jean Con Con- way war Alameda Cal Cat ankle sprained and hands cut Plo Flo Conway Alameda Cal cut face Passenger train No 10 10 of Kansas jt in charge of Conductor F. F R. R Tr Travers ers was running late Conductor L. L P. P P. Gross of the freight passed South He Ito bad had signed off orf but butI evi e evidently did not check the train reg register register reg register I ister as to the whereabouts of No 10 A At t the of collision the track k m makes s a a sharp rp curve s shutting o off the view of the Fort Crook station It H was at this point that Engineer Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford of the time freight r ight eau caught ht si sight bt of No which was as comin coming at high speed Engineer r Crawford it is said stud had Imad no noI I orders in reg regard rd to N No but he heI whistled and anti slackened somewhat I. I When t the he hA passenger did not answer he I concluded that it was a train en n the adjoining Burlington trac tracks s. R Realized the Danger When within a few car ar lengths of each jach other both n. n ers s realized ze tho- tho danger and reversed their engines Tie The The momentum of the passenger train how how- er e eer was sq great that in a moment it was piled high upon the the freight engine engino en en- gine gino which had almost almot stopped The Tho crews of both e engines jumped i Dr John Colliver Jolliver of Los Angeles a a. a I. I passenger er in the Pullman rushed to the front an and heroically to assist assist as as- l slat the injured I The crew crew and uninjured passengers I formed th themselves es into a band that worked under tinder the direction of Dr Colliver Colliver Colli Colli- ver until the arrival of the army niM meril cal corps corp from Fort Crook under Major I I Dale and anti Lieutenant Clark Clar A call caU was sent to Omaha to-Omaha Omaha for medi cal assistance John Scott en engineer ineer of the passenger ger izer declared that he heard beard no whistle from the frei freight bt train IT Ire e said he lu was not going oin over twenty five or thirty miles an hour Engineer Crawford o op the freight train wandered about the wreck pale lisle and andi unnerved With tears in in his eyes ho imo hr r repeated over and over lois his story of I the collision He lie blamed Gross his conductor con con- ductor for tho wreck saying saving that ho be had been given no order re regarding ar ing tho the train passenger ser Presidents President's Opinion ST ST. LOUIS Ot t. IS The accident can be attributed to the time fallibility of or mon men as the lie fl freight cre crew seems to fl have hAvo hail had one of those mental lapses that sometimes occur causing them to et oret all about t time the passenger train h notwithstanding ot t I n II standing n I special notification lI was given I that It was due dueIs Is 18 time the explanation In brief of tIme the probable cause Ause of or the collision colli colli- sion near Omaha 01 advanced by President Bush of o. o the tIme Missouri Pacific The train was wall in chat charge of if Conductor Con Con- ductor Gross GroBs and auel Engineer Crawford It was wall an extra without rl right ht of way against the 1 passenger t nger I train aln According to information received received- bv liv President Bu Buth h these I 1 0 Iwo we both of tf whom have hare been ben In the service I. Of or the Missouri for fOI a II number of or years yeats' celt to share the responsibility for tor th time the accident ac It was reported to President Bush that Colonel William l lr in iii J l at tt Fort Koit Cro Crook l was on oil limit tho F scene cene if of t the time wreck within 1 In a It few minutes after actor It oc oc- oc red cut hl lila hi officers and amid men noon Including In- In chiding the army medical medical- corps and rendered ren rell- I service dered cored valuable |