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Show MANY ARE KILLED AS TRAINS CLASH THIRTY-8IX PASSENGERS KILLED AND SCORE8 INJURED WHEN TRAINS CRA8H Wreck Is Attributed to Failure of El glneer to Heed Signal; Work of Removing Dead'and Injured Is Gruesome Task Sulphur Springs, Mo. Failure ot aa engineer to heed a block signal caused tho rear-end collision on the Missouri Pacific Saturday night In which thir-ty-slx persons woro killed and about 188 injurod, twcnty-flvo seriously, according ac-cording to John Cannon, assistant goa-oral goa-oral manogor of tho road. Train No. 4, a fast pasaengor, ves-tibulcd, ves-tibulcd, steel train running at full speed, crashed into No. 32, a local composed ot five wooden day coaches a baggage and an express car, as the englno was taking on water with tho coaches stretching back on a trestle over Glatso Creek. Tho impact hurled two ot the local coaches down a tltty-foot embankment embank-ment edging tho Mississippi and telo-scoped telo-scoped four other coaches, crushing a numbor of the passengers to death In their falls. Both trains woro running run-ning behind timo and tho fast passenger, pas-senger, running from Fort Worth, Texas, to St Louis, carriod 180 pas-songers pas-songers and the local 100 porsona. According to Mr. Cannon, Matt O. Glena ot St Louis, onglneor ot tho fast passengor, failed to hoed a block signal warning him that tho track was not clear ahoad. Glenn, 07 years of ago, an engineer for thirty-soven yoars without a black mark against his rocord, ro-cord, was killed whon he Jumpod from tho cab Just betoro tho crash. Edward Tlnsloy, also ot St Louis, flrouian ot No. 4, romainod at his post and was Injurod seriously. Englneor Gloen shortly betoro arriving ar-riving in Sulphur Springs rocelvod orders or-ders "on tho run" to pull over on a siding at Cliff Cavo, ton miles north ot horo, to allow 'VSunablne iSpoclal No. 1," en route from St Louis to Toxas points, to pass, and Mr. Cannon explained ex-plained tho englnoor failed to heed the block signal bocauso bo apparently apparent-ly was reading those ordors when ho passed tho block. Just south of tho sceno ot the disaster dis-aster thoro is a curve In tho road, which cut off view of tho local train on the trestle. Missouri Pacific officials, offi-cials, howovor, emphasized that tho block signals woro operating in perfect per-fect order, and Englnoor Glenn should havo slowed his train down so that he could havo como to a halt almost Instantly, Tho last body was romovod from tho debris early Sunday. A group ot rescuers, Icoroscno torches lighting their way, camo down tho track to tho llttlo railroad station with tho in-ort in-ort flguro on a Utter, improvised from boards ot tho spllntorod wrockago. Tho railroad tracks parallel tho Mississippi Mis-sissippi river and tho trestlo on which tho dl3astor occurred spans Glalso Crook whoro It enters tho river. As a result, a roport was current that a number ot bodies wore hurled Into the Mississippi, Thero was no way ot verifying this report, howovor. Robcuo work was lntorfcrred with by lack of proper light This llttlo village Is without electricity, and tho roscuo workers and morbidly curious made their ray among the mass ot twisted steel and crumbmlod woodon coaches by tho nld of kerosene torches and lights on sticks. Thousands ot persons per-sons visited here lato Sunday night to view the wreck and roads were blocked for a radius of threo miles. |