Show LIVES SNUfFED OUT IN WRECK HORROR More Than Thirty Believed to Have Been Killed on Rock Island l. DISPATCHER NOW IN JAIL g I. I John Let Train Get Gd Pact t Station Causing On On I-On Collision lon Near Xu 1 r Topeka Kan Yesterday J Topeka lopeka Kan Jan 2 Thirty Thirty lives were vere snuffed out In a u. frightful wreck on the Rock Rock flock Island system near noor Alta AHa AltaVista AltaVista Vista 50 GO miles west vest of here at K r. i o'clock this morning through the care care- le of or ono one operator John Lynes telegraph operator ut at Volland Is In jail all In Topeka charged with the ruthless ruth- ruth 1 t less ess slaughter of human freight hy by failing ailing to follow orders Fire e followed the crash between trains Nos os 29 anti and 30 SO which met h headon head head- on and many of the thc bodies hurled buried In Inthe Intile tile the debris wore cremated cremates making makIn it Impossible for Cor officials of ot the company to give I e out the exact list t of lend It Itis is believed belle that lint the lie list vill be more mOle than 35 as ns th the front ear cur on train Xo No u. u 29 which 29 which received the brunt of th the shock was shock was closely packed with Mexicans cans and one or two Americans Practically Practically nil all of at those thoc who have been 10 lC T covered are arc Mexicans only ono otie Amen Amori- can having been broll brought hl out Cr from freon m this the s debris Most I 1 a In lii History The Th wreck was one o of the most disastrous disastrous dis dis- In li-i the history of or the tho flock Is Island Ts- Ts mail land s system and has hug paralyzed on the roat road Vl Wrecking ll log er a and many man were ere i tn to iI ih thE scene of tf f thc the wreck reck and nd m many ot of the lie Injured were brought to hospitals In I Topeka The wrecking trains have ha been working nil all day over the smock and anil trains could not be sent Hent over or tho the main line hero here until u a late hour to to- to 1 night V Operator Pleads Innocence I IJOhn John Lynos Lyns 19 ID the t j tejo-j HH graph operator at Volland who let the tho I southbound i train get ct by this alaton station it I said ald tonight before being taken to I Jail Jon Id Id been awake all ni night nii i i was sober Between 4 o'clock awl anti 5 iF I I o'clock the tho dispatches 1 gave onU orders nh v f fr r th l o e 1 id i'd fAit fa t. t J h f P M f AS 4 14 T II II I Kt ft switch Uch and let Jet n PUSH du t. t n nod r od pd d down the tho main n lino without i a for rOI the next train It I went wen t IJ hero 10 JIt r about ten mUCH miles pei pel hour althou i She tho board vas ras 28 down at it dun danger l r. r I f rin rii r h out with wIh my lantern but It I IS was S of or no IW noue V i use ue I was going to Topeka when a ni- ni 1 T V Lynes Jynes further stated slated that th he arm struck thc lie signal and gave tl the lie clear V V c cem V track accidentally There wn wa was om some V talk of lynching Lynes but this looks loo I improbable tonight ht Some Sonic s' s think that t ent twenty bod bodies s were elc burned burnell V to ashes Fifteen bodies bodic have ha b heed OI V recovered i j More Afore than 10 40 0 were r In hi 1111 J most of ot whom ei on onn xo Xo 29 9 V Eighteen of or the Injured ha have been hean V brought rought here anti and two tso died In local ho the during ca day clay and amI night Most ost of oC them were suffering from V burns urns received while pinioned under debris before the they could be rescued V V Physicians have given up hope V J In V several 80 veral other cases and It I is belle believed V that ha at at aL least five n nor of or the other othet wreck V victims now living will die within a n short time V V fV Fire LIro dds Adds to the lie Horror V Immediately following the lie shock c coaches on No 29 20 toppled we I am and V V vent into th the dich ditch It I was then lion that the tire fire broke out anti and a new peril peri was wal V a added ded to the tho wr wreck lc Many of the i Mexicans stunned by the ho first frt impact t tot of ot the I two wo trains came to consciousness conscious conscious- V ness hess only to find Ind themselves held Him V VV V under the wreckage and were wele forced V to la lay there watching watching the lie names flames come closer an and cla closer er to them until th they lost consciousness again never to re reo V Vain gain ain aln It I. I Tho The debris once afire afre burned like tinder and It I was wa only a n few v ew minutes min mm- V utes after the first flames es wore were seen sn creeping from between the pieces of oC i- i broken cats cars that the whole ma mass g WAS wak WASa waka a roaring lieu hell hel o of names flames t- t Most Mott of oC the la passengers engers on thus tho trains ren rendered what assistance the they could V to pull pul the victims out of or the wreckage wreck wreck- Z age but there were few Cow saved M In this manner V V When hen the tho two trains came cama together the baggage car ear on Xo No o. o 2 skidded V over o the top 01 of the lie smoker in which the Mexicans lay asleep llop and crashed V V- V through the roof root Many ero wera killed when the car cat crush crushed cd down upon L them and tho those o who did not lose los their lives then were forced the floor and anti pinioned d there thee until th the flames completed the work worl df of r V ton tion t Keller Belief Hu het to I o Scene V From the tho reports recel received ed It 1 H is quite uit V evident c that No 2 29 W bore bone the brunt brun o of V V the tho disaster ter as the eai cars cal on 0 Xo No 30 0 were wore not damaged to such an extent as to V V prevent their being being made mado u up Ui Into u a a V V train and anc sent on west in place of ot the lie destroyed No 0 29 V L Relief Relict trains nn and all possible le succor V has haM been rushed from every ery available ble avalt point Superintendent o of the lie jr Kansas division hurried hurrle with a special 9 train from Crom Harrington Barrington carr carrying all al the V V doctors he could gather there and V picking them thorn up at every eary station A special train t-ln t was pent sent from Topeka To To- V V V peka leka peka On It I wet eio Dr Jr Mann Munn lUt and Dr Dl V Hogeboom Telegrams were sent sont ah hecl end V to various arlous places bel between here herc and anc V V Volland where physicians w were re picked lucked V up as 19 the lie special hurt hunted on un fo for Wreck V t- t Twelve of tho most seriously injured V V jV are aro being brought to Topeka in charge of oC Drs Munn and Hogeboom V V There Thero is no doubt that this calamity V. V V Ris R- R Is IJ one that must be 10 charged to human V frailty and the tho blame for or H it I goes on V tho the unfortunate shoulders of oC John V Lynes who was the operator at Vol Yol land Orders had been issued for Cor Xo No o. o 29 9 and Xo No o 3 30 31 to pass at V VOlland land y hc Th so u had hac ben been sent ent to the opo op- op o clator rat 01 at and ho lie should have Continued ou oil la o t o. luo V d 4 I itt LIVES SNUFFED OUT IN WRECK HORROR Continued omit from first p pac c. c hold No 29 at Volland Yoland These Thes were the time last orders he had received and he lie fallen failed to deliver delver them Xo So 29 9 Gone anti and alI so o hare o Ia c I. I About hout five minutes before lefore it I happen happened hap hap- pen t ho he called up the nearest dispatcher dispatcher dis dis- patch r In short sharp click cHck with wih his telegraph instrument and wired No 29 9 has gone and I 1 have gone also Even with this dispatch in hand hanti there was no possible wa way for 01 preventing preventing prevent prevent- ing the wreck That rhal was wa the last word worL received from the operator All Al of the l killed and the seriously Injured were passengers on No 10 29 9 and few if I any passenger on No Xo 30 svere wert seriously injured Neither e her was wa much munch damage done to the equipment of th this Is train tran Both trains were v heavy ones one carryIng carry carry- crr- crr Ing hog ten cars and of all al varieties Including Including Pullman sleepers and anti tourists tourists tour tour- chair cars car's coaches smoker and anc baggage care cais rc No 29 i is known as the California fast mall mail mal and left If Chicago at nt Tuesday morning and amid w wont nt through this city a couple o of hours before the the Hecl occurred No Xo 30 Is the opposite lle traits train trin of No o. o 29 and I Is known as the thE Chicago fast mail mail It I left lef El 11 Paso Pas Monday Monda night and anti was due in iii Chicago tonight tonight No o. o 29 20 was crowded cd to lo th the doors with wih passengers pas juas- hut but the number of oC travelers on 10 No 30 was not riot large lam lare Injured Taken lo to JoI Hospital al The special relief releC train bearing tent el twenty eight ht passengers many of them Mexicans reached Topeka about 10 cock J Ambulances hurried th them m to I stormont Twelve dead clead bodies arc are lying ing in th the station at Alma staton J Just before the crash came I Engineer Engi Engi- ngI- ngI neer acer McMahon and Fireman Brown of No o 29 and Engineer Slater and amid Fireman Fireman Fireman Fire Fire- man Sweeney en 0 of No Xe o CO 1 i Jumped and escaped injury n An interpreter for the Mexicans was Cue questioned toned a as he In lay s slowly burning to death under the wreckage He lie said tak there were svene five twenty Mexicans in iii their party parly going from Kans is City uEl u to El Paso to work anti and most mott of them Item were burning to death like himself Held nt lit The operator John Lynes who let lei No 29 get by has been captured anti and was brought to the Jail at Topeka Nono of Ot tIme the dead were brought to in the relief train Time The injured presented a sad looking scene Nearly all of them liens covered cov ered er-ed with blood The fhe only trainman who was known to be hurt was the porter on train No 29 whose leg was cut off though an express messenger on an No 29 Is also re reported reported re- re ported missing The rhe conductor on No 29 is badly bruised up Most of the escaped Injury by imy jumping Clarence Dauchy a sort sou of time tho for for- iier chief engineer of the tho Rock Island is s maid to be one of the Iho seriously In injured in- in There were several Injured women among tIre the car chair passengers One was suffering with a broken leg legind anal ind was unable to walk while rhile an infant In- In ant fant was with her was uninjured Injured on No JO tO Few of time tho passengers on No 30 were injured anti and none minnie killed Several however were badly burned In lii their heroic rescue O work W W. WA A A. Dutch I vho is a a. traveling man and makes I Kansas City his headquarters was In Inthe the Iho foremost Pullman on the train He saidI said I l seas wa-s asleep In the Pullman antI and did not feel the tho effects of the collision at all 1 felt a slight jar however a minute later hater as the emergency brakes were vere applied and my IBY head bumped against the side itie of the car No one i In the tho car in iii which I was asleep was Injured The Tho- collision occurred on what is known as the Alta Vista hill bill Tho rho northbound train came down the steep grade at a high rate of speed anti the engineer had no warning of the ap approach approach ap- ap of the tho other train He was only able ablo to slacken speed to a do- do grec gm-ce before ho he jumped The trains met at the bottom of the hill bill The rho smoking car on No 29 was literally split spilt in two and the first chair car was telescoped nearly way half back The two baggage cars care mall mail car smoker and amid chair car on No 29 were consumed consumed con con- by lames flames that followed the collision The killed and the iho seriously Injured were in the tho smoker and time the first chair car None of the sleeping cars of either train was damaged In Iii Nine Dead On the j relief train reaching Topeka at noon from the scene of the tho wreck were stifle nine lead dead bodies two white men anti and seven Mexicans Mexicans' One of the dead was William Thomas Thomias Miller Mil Mit- her ler riding on the Iho blind baggage of No 30 Another was an air Iowa soldier on a furlough from Iowa Four of the tho Injured brought lo to Topeka Topeka To To- peka on in tire the first train have died two Mexicans anti and iwo white men names unknown Up to noon the Rock Island officials had been unable to attempt with success sue suc cess the preparation of a list of the tho dead tho ho great majority of whom were Mexicans anti and their bodies o J-o burned that Identification was almost impossible |