Garland Globe | 1907-01-12 | Page 2 | Thirty Lives Blotted out in Railway Wreck

THIRTY LIVES BLOTTED OUT IN RAILWAY WRECK Boy Telegrapher Responsible for Collision Col-lision of Passenger Trains In Kansas Kan-sas on Rock Island Road. Topekn. Four white men, a negro train porter and about thirty Mexican laborers lost their lives, and fifty-flvo fifty-flvo persons were Injured, when two pnsBcngcr train on tho Chicago, Rock Island Sr. Pacific railroad collided head-on four miles west of Volland, Kns., nt 5; 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. Tho trains were Nos. 20 and 30, running between Chicago and El Paso. They met on a sharp curvo with fearful Impact. Adding to tho horror of tho collision, flro from tho lamps In tho curs nnd from tho locomotives, loco-motives, wns communicated to tho splintered wreckngo nnd spread rap-Idly, rap-Idly, consuming llvo of tho forward cars of train No. t, westbound, nnd burning a number of tho passengers. Tho olllclnls of the company placo tho blanio on John Lynos, tho 10-year-old telegraph operator at Volland, who failed to stop train No. 29 nt his station nftcr receiving orders to hold It there until No. 30 had passed. Lyncs Is being hold by tho authorities of Waubaunsco county at Alma for investigation.