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Show WRECK i ROCKBLAND ! Twenty-oneBodies Have Been Taken From the Wreckage Denver, Colo., Sept. 23. Westbound passenger train No. 27, on the Rock JslanJ. due in Denver at S:25 this morning from Kansas City, ran into a washout at 4 o'clock this morning near Clayton, Kas., and was wrecked. Four trainmen are known to be dead and It l. reported that two or three j passengers were kllleil and a number of other Injured. The dead: FRANK PICKENRAUGH. engineer. I J. W. USHER, conductor. WILIIAM MILLS, fireman I HLTFMAN, baggageman, pinned und-I und-I er wreck. I Phytlcluns have been hurried from , Nortou. Colorado, Coiby and other j polnta. A wrecking train has been 1 scut from Phllllusburg. The wreck was caused by a cloud burst which swept portions of northwestern north-western Kunsaa last night. A bridge was curried away and the train, while i running at n good speed, ran Into the gap, the engine and mall car pluDg- j (Continued on Pago Seven.) j WRECK ON ROCK ISLAND. (Continued from Page One.) ing into 20 feet of water, tho second coach telescoping the smoker. Omaha, Neb., SepL 23. A special from Norcatur, Kansas, says: Twenty-ono dead have bet-n taken from tho wreck of Rook Island train No. 27, bound from Kansas City to Denver, two miles east of Clayton. The de:id are the engineer, fireman, conductor and eighteen pansengers. Norcatur Is about seven miles from Clayton. Denver, Colo., Sept. 23. According to a dispatch from the chief train dispatcher dis-patcher of the Rock Island at Good-land, Good-land, Kan., at least five passengers were k.lled. in addition to four trainmen train-men In Ihe wreck of westbound passenger pas-senger train No. 27 near, Clayton. Ivan., early today, when the train ran into a washout. The chief dispatcher believes that three or four other passengers pas-sengers may be b-:ned beneath the wreckage, so that the list may run as high as thirteen. 4 Eight Injured have been "taken to Norton. Wires are down and no detailed de-tailed story of the wreck has yet been received at division i-oadquarters. Among the passengers killed are W. E. Shlveiy and Herman Miller, residences unknown. Topeka. Kan.. Sept. 23. The telegraph tele-graph wires are down in the vicinity of the wreck, according to Rock Isl-and Isl-and officials, and consequently no reports re-ports are being received at the headquarters head-quarters here. A dispatch received this afternoon from Norton, which is twenty miles east of Clayton, states that the dead and injured are being taken to that place, and that, ln addition addi-tion to the four trainmen, four pas-Bengers pas-Bengers were killed, but their names have not been learned The body of the fireman l still under un-der the wreck. Conductor Usher, who was killed, was off duty. |
