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"Meteor" Wreck: Godfrey, Kansas, December 1903 |
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Sep 20, 05 - 8:19 PM |
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Surnames: KIRKPATRICK, HOYT, DeWEES, WYMAN, BISHARD, MORELAND, CORBIN, BLUEBAKER, KNABLE, GARROWAY, BELL, DARLINGTON, BARTLEY
Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) > 1903 > December > 23
NINE PERSONS KILLED
Thirty-Two Others Injured in the Wreck of a Train at Godfrey, Kan.
BRAKEMAN IS RESPONSIBLE
Failed to Flag the Train,
Which was Trying to Regain Lost Time
Kansas City, Mo., [Dec.] 22.--In Monday's wreck at Godfrey, Kan., of the "Meteor," the St. Louis and San Francisco railway's fast train from the South, nine persons were killed and thirty-two others injured. Of the injured five probably will die and fourteen were seriously hurt. The dead are:
James KIRKPATRICK
George HOYT, conductor
B.A. DeWEES, engineer
James H. WYMAN, colored
THeodore BISHARD, fireman
Asa MORELAND
Lon CORBIN
Joseph CORBIN
and
John BLUEBAKER
The fatally injured are:
Sheridan KNABLE
E.B. GARROWAY
John BELL, express messenger
and
H.B. DARLINGTON, mail clerk
The CORBIN brothers, two of whom were killed and one seriously injured, were on their way home to Oklahoma to spend Christmas
John BLUEBACKER, the dead news agent, was curled up on a seat in the rear of the smoking car near the stove when the crash came. He was taken out alive, but died during the afternoon.
Running at Full Speed.
When the train reached Godfrey it was behind and running at full speed to make up time. The crew of a freight train that had preceded the Meteor left the switch open and the passenger train jumped the track and rolled down a slight embankment. All save the sleeper turned over and so fast was the train running that the engine and the forward baggage car landed nearly sixty feet off the roadbed before they stopped. The sleeper remained upright and none of the passengers in this car was injured.
The baggage car was completely wrecked and the smoker was badly damaged. Five of those killed were in the forward end of the smoker and four of them were killed instantly.
J.A. BARTLEY, the freight brakeman, whose failure to flag the passenger train caused the wreck, has not been found.
The engine on the freight had become "dead" and the crew was ordered to remain on the main track and turn the switch for the passenger, then about due, the brakeman being ordered to flag the Meteor. This he neglected to do. |
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