| Show I MANY BURNED IN WRECK Exact E act Number That Perished in Tourist Car Carof of Rock Island Cal Special Unknown wn AT LEAST E TWELVE OR MORE Cars Left rrt Lef Track Trad Up amid ll Caught I e of o he Accident Unknown Ulm n nan Kansas an s City D Sl A long lon dis ills distance distance tance telephone message from Trenton m at tt 14 this afternoon says the tini dead In n the t burned tout 1st car caron caron on ou tho time Rock Island train were esti estimated est estimated mated maed nil all al tho the way from 20 21 to 30 persons There was Ino way at this Chile hour of ol getting geWn at nt the tho facts as aa al iii almost almost most every ever Vestige of tho the car had har been destroyed det ed Trenton Mo Deci Deci l Imprisoned In Ina Ina ina a tourist sleeping r and an burned to death eath Is II believed to be H tho the fate of ot per perhaps haps 12 rp the tho California lt f ion the Chicago tok ock Island Ilan railroad three miles east enDt of Trenton Tr n today to 1 3 The of victIms 1 tm flY be he be larger larer but huh butI the thc facts r will wl not nl be he O known the debris of ot the car cal has hii been searched t The train was derailed at S 8 40 while passing through a of or o Ice cov covi erect cred country at a high speed peed the huge engine Jumping the track A standard Pullman sleeper and tho thin tourist sleeper caught fro fire firo and were destroyed and a of or the chair car car was waR burned burnell At t noon the te known Ico n dead d ad whose bodies bolies had been recovered meth three Fireman 1 Lininger and ant two women un tin Nine were wore Injured two probably fatally The bodies of tho two to o women were taken talon from coin the chaIr chair oil oar Most of ot the Injured also were wore In this t ls car NO TOURIST ESCAPED D DAll All the passengers In the burned Pull Pullman Pul man loan escaped and aside from franc bruises and slight cuts nono was hurt The Tho number of those who lost 1 st their lives hives Ives In Inthe Inthe the tourist clr car is I In doubt None are arc known Inon to have escaped from tIde this Ull car carand carand and It Is believed all aft al Its Us passengers passengers were cremated Tho Tue wreck occurred o without a moments warning to the passengers and by thi th time they the had realized what was val happening the three cars were In flames Happening as It I did In an nn Isolated spot there thieve was wa no noalI aid alI at at hand save 90 that available In other parts pats of the train Those passengers passenger and l nd members of ot tIm the crew cress who escaped Injury Immedi Immediately Immediately atel wont to 10 work vork to aid id thin the Injured Many I n w ii r the tile chair chah car thoth lIT f he Pullman generally g escaped unassisted The Tue thames that attacked the tourist sleeper burned fiercely lercel forcing back buk the rescuers and they tho stood by in the tha ice Ic and snow SIO powerless to render rendel aid ald Tho Time cause of the tile wi wreck eck is not known The engine ensIne suddenly Jumped the track and plowing through the tho roadbed land hand landed landed handed ed upside down 50 10 feet feol from the tracks Following closely camo cao the mall mal and i baggage bagge cars car These Thee two cars car doubled e ahead past the engine both being badly bl 1 smashed Back of or these two cars came a chair car a tourist t sleeper e two t standard b d Pullman il l lt sleepers fe and an n ob observation 1 car I CARS CATCH C FIRE FIE When hen the tho chair car cr the tourist and the first of or the Pullman reached rached a point opposite the disabled engine they thoy left heft tho the track and plied piled pled up These at once caught lire fro from the engine The second standard sleep sleeper er el and amid the observation ob car c were practically undamaged Tho The first shock over passengers p engers began clambering cambering through windows while farmers farers living near by byran byran byran ran to 10 see what they could do to assist Men M 1 entered the burning chair car carand carand carand and dragged dragge half stunned and amid bleeding passengers to safety safet Flames prevented the thin rescuers from entering the Chic tourist car ear From the windows of this car two or three pas passengers passengers senser are arc known to have havo made their escape unaided The fate of ot the he oth others othera ers era could only emily be lie conjectured From behind the burning wreck wieck of ot the engine other rescuers dragged the th body hod of Fireman burned and mangled almost beyond be ol recognition When hien the lie wrecking train arrived I from Trenton Irenton the cars carl on each ench side of or the three fated cars were drown drawn out of oC the tIme reach of oC the lames flames Thin The tourist and the first Pullman were ero soon reduced to a I pile pie of twisted Iron and anil ashes In the belief that the tIme destroyed tour tourist tourIst 1st car held the thu tl bodies of or perhaps a Il dozen daz n or more persons the thc passengers lining hining the tracks stood by b In awed silence Tho he Injured Injure were hurried hU led to Trenton and given first aid at the local hotel later being transferred to Kansas Jans City NO 10 LIST lAST OF MISSING A complete completo list of oC tho the missing was wa unattainable antI and the number and Identity of oC the dead could not be ant re revealed revealed for fOI many man hours The Thin train was vas one of o the lie heaviest and nd finest In the Rock Islands service It I Is Js what Is known Icon In the tim summer as the Golden State limited and In the tho winter as the California special The train trin left lef Chicago at 9 Thursday night and was due to arrive arrhe In Kansas Kans City at nt 1033 today At Kansas City Cf CIt the train picks up imp an al ad nd additional sleeper The Tue cause caU e of o the Chic accident Is IK not nol known The train was running at high speed Tim The heavy engine jumped the tho track and landed 50 60 feet off ot the I right of ot way wa The cars following all ll left over lel the track and all al but one tumbled |
