Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-10-19 | Page 1 | Six Lives Lost in Head on Collision

SIX liVES LOST IN HEAD ON HEAD COLLISION Rock Island Passenger Runs Into Open Switch S and Smashes Fre Freight Train Near Chickasha Okla Okia S I OKLAHOMA CITY Oct 19 Six Six pers persons are d dead id two fatally injured and and about eight others others' more more or injured as as- the result of a on head-on c collision between n Rock Island southbound south south- bound J und passenger train No I 11 I and a northbound freight train which occurred at 2 o'clock this morning at the Agawam curve twelve miles south of Chickasha traveling thirty miles mUes an hour and as a result of of I Ithe The trains were engine was left leU o on top of the freight engine the Impact the of ot p passenger cattle were rA piled over nver and under them ann ana 11 c sour IOUI lU curs cars cee ji U. G ni o n z ann ana 11 c sour IOUI lU curs cars cee ji U. G ni o n z zA A heavy steel man mall car Jumped clear over the engines and rolled thirty feet to one side The wreck it is said was caused by the failure of the southbound passenger train to take the siding at Agawam Just half haIt a mile from where the trains met The dead were found scalded under the wreckage There were four tour mail man clerks in inthe inthe inthe the snail man car that was 38 hurled thirty feet from the track Two were injured in while two escaped unharmed After Atter the wreck three live cattia cattle cat cat- tIc tle were seen standing on top of the wreckage which was piled plIed up about thirty feet in the air