Show MM ANT ME ARE KILLED AS GUSH 11 minty SIX passengers KILLED AND SCORES CORE INJURED WHEN TRAINS CRASH wreck Is attributed to failure of eri en alneer to heed work of removing vead and injured it Is gruesome task sulphur springs nto mi of an aa engineer to heed a hock signal c caused led the rear end col llalon on tho the missouri j tle saturday Satur dar night in which thir ty six sir persons were killed and about injured fiyo seriously seri oust y ac bording to john cannon assistant gen fen oral eral manager of the road train no 4 a fast passenger vet TM stoel steel train running at full speed crashed into no 32 2 a local composed ot of five wooden day coaches it a baggage and an express car as s th the engino was taking on water with the coaches stretching back on a trestle over glacso creek the tha impact hurled two ot of the local coaches down A fifty foot embankment edging the mississippi and telescoped tour four other roaches co iches crushing a number of the ho passengers to death in their falls koth both trains were wera running behind time and tha ilia fast passenger running from fort worth texas to st t louis carried passengers and the tha local persons according to sir mr cannon matt 0 glenn of st louis engineer of the tha last fast passenger tailed failed to heed a block signal warning him that tho the track was doi clear claay ahead colonn glonn 57 years 0 agoa ago an a engineer for thirty soven seven years without a black mark against his ro cord was killed when he jumped from the cab just before tho the crash H dward tinsley also of st loula louis fireman of no 4 remained at his post and was injured seriously engineer oteen oleen shortly befaro arriving I 1 in sulphur springs received orders on tho the run to pull pill over on a i siding biding a at t cliff cavo cave ton ten miles north of liere here to allow special no I 1 en bouto from st loula louis to toms toan points to pass end and mr cannon explained tho the engineer failed to heed the block signal because lie ho apparently was reading sheso orders when ho he passed the block lust just south ot of tho the scene of tho the disaster thero there is a curve in tho the road which cut olt off view of the local train on the trestle missouri pacific boffl clala however r emphasized that tho the block signals were operating in perfect order and engineer Engi noer olenn should have slowed his train down so that he could have come to a halt almost instantly the last body was removed from tho the debris early sunday A group 0 of rescuers kerosene torches lighting their way caroo came down tho the track to the little railroad station with the inert figure on a utter litter improvised from boards of the splintered wreckage tho the railroad trucks tracks parallel the mississippi sis sippi river and ami the trestle on which the iho disaster occurred spans glacso creole croel ft where hero it enters tho the river As a result a report was current that aliat a number of bodies wore were hurled into the mississippi there was no way of verifying this report however rescue work was inter forred with by lack of proper light this little village to Is without electricity and the rescue woric workers ers end and morbidly curious mado made their iva way y among the mass masa of twisted steel and wooden coaches ay dy tho the old aid of kerosene torches and lights on sticks thousands ot of persons vie cited hero here late lalo sunday night to view the wreck and roads wore blocked tor for a radius ot of three dr hull who was among the first nt at the wreck told tho the press that bodies of lead dead were found feet from the scene 0 of the accident one body was burled waist deep in a bog dr george A elders coroner of 0 jefferson county said a thorough investigation of 0 the accident would bo be made |