Show MANY AHE ift ED AS TRAINS CLASH THIRTY Y SIX passengers KILLED AND SCORES WHEN TRAINS CRASH wreck Is attributed to failure of engineer to heed signal work of removing dead and injured Is if gruesome task sulphur springs mo failure of an engineer to heed a mock block signal caused the rear end collision on the missouri pacific saturday night in which thir ty six persons were killed hilled and about injured twenty five seriously according to john cannon assistant general manager of the road train no 4 a tast fast passenger steel train running at full speed crashed into no 32 3 a licali local composed of 0 five wooden day coaches a baggage and an express car as the engi engine was taking on water with tile the coaches stretching back on a trestle over blatse creek the impact hurled two of the local coaches down a itty fifty toot foot embankment edging the mississippi and telescoped fou tour other coaches crushing a number of the passengers to death in their falls both trains were running behind time and the fast passenger running from fort worth texas to st louis carried passengers and the local persons according to mr cannon matt latt 0 glenn of st louis engineer of the tast last passenger tailed failed to heed a block signal bagnal warning him that the track was not clear ahead glenn 57 years 0 of age an engineer tor for thirty seven years Nit without hout a black mark against its his record was killed when he jumped from the cab just before the crash edward tinsley also of st louis fireman of 0 no 4 remained at his post and was injured seriously engineer gleen shortly before arriving in sulphur springs received orders on the run to pull oer on a siding biding at cliff cave ten miles north ot of here to allow sunshine special no I 1 en route from st louis to texas points to pass and mr cannon explained the engineer tailed failed to heed the block signal because he be apparently was reading these orders when he passed the block just south of the scene ot of the disaster there is a curve in the road which cut off view ot of the local train on the trestle missouri pacific officials however emphasized that tho the block signals were operating in perfect order and engineer glenn should have slowed his train down so that he be could have come to a halt almost instantly the last body was removed from the debris early sunday A group of 0 rescuers kerosene torches lighting their way came down the track to the little railroad station with the inert figure on a litter improvised from boards of the splintered wreckage the railroad tracks parallel thellis the mississippi sis als sippi river and the trestle on which the disaster occurred spans glaese creek where it enters the river As a result a report was current that a number of 0 bodies were nere hurled into the mississippi there was no way of 0 verifying this report however rescue work was with by lack of proper light this little village Is without NIt hout electricity and the rescue workers and morbidly curious made their way among the mass of twisted steel and wooden coaches by the aid ot of I kerosene erogene torches and lights on sticks thousands ot of persons visited here late sunday night to view the wreck and roads were blocked for or a radius rad ius 0 of three milesa |