Revere, MO Train Wreck, May 1892

THE SANTA FE WRECK.

List of the Killed and Wounded-Gathering of the Dead-A Pitiful Incident.

The Santa Fe is running its trains to Chicago over the Burlington road on account of the wreck at Revere, Mo., yesterday morning. The following is a list of the killed in the accident: LON S MARKEE, Kansas City, Mo.; LUTHER CORNELIUS, Kirksville, Mo.; S. E. VERKLER, Westport, Mo.: J. C. GRAVES, Macon, Mo.; one woman and one child, names unknown. Another child was with the woman but it was uninjured. The three were from Los Angeles, Cal., and were on their way to visit friends at Alleghany, Pa.

Mention was made in THE STAR yesterday of LON MARKEE, one of the killed, who lived in this city. Those injured:

P. C. COWLING, Chicago; J. C. WINSLOW, Chicago; N. LANCASTER, Chicago; MRS. JANE HISEY, Riverside, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. ISHAM, Riverside, Ill.; MARTIN REIGLE, brakeman, Chicago; J. F. HORIGEN, Reading, Pa.; MRS. F. P. ALLEN, Athens, Pa.; WILLIAM ADAMS, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England; H. M. CUTLER, Chicago; N. D. Roman, express messenger, Riverside, Ill.; Conductor TUCKER, Chicago; A. D. MEARS, Stillwater, Minn.; C. Beal, postal clerk, Vermont, Ill.: R. B. BUTCHER, postal clerk, Chicago; JAMES GUNTHER, Chicago; O. L BOYCE, 11 Cleveland avenue, Kansas City; W. B. BARNES, Oklahoma City, Ok.; J. H. SNYDER, Lecompton, Kas.; S. A. Lough, Chetopa, Kas.; JAMES MORAN, Sedley, Ind.; FRANK GRAVES, Sedley, Ind.; W. G. SMITH, New Haven, Conn.; F. W. MOORE, Winnebago, Ill.; AMENA BATTERUSE, Chicago; Mrs. J. H. Keatin, Raton, N. M.; Mrs. ALICE HUGHES, Sedan, Kas.; ROBERT SHULTZ, Lexington, Junction, Mo.

There are but three of the injured who are considered seriously hurt.

A dispatch from Fort Madison, Ia., says the scene of the wreck presents a fearful appearance to-day. Scattered about in confusion is the debris of the cars, all of which were completely demolished with the exception of the last sleeping car which remained on the track.

The dead bodies were laid out at an undertaking shop. The woman who was killed was found to be Mrs. G. BAUSCH of San Bernardino, Cal. Her body was terribly bruised and covered with blood. Her babe had evidently been drowned as no marks of violence were found.

Luther Cornelius of Kirksville, Mo., the brakeman, was most disfigured, his head and face being terribly bruised, and his skull broken in several pieces. The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen have taken charge of his body.

William Hynes of Oklahoma City was a large, strongly built man and when found only his arm and head were visible. He had gone into the chair car because he would not pay $2.50 for a berth in the sleeper, having offered $2 for it.

The body of S. E. VERKLER of Westport was in a fearful condition. His head, face, neck and shoulders were a mass of bruises and jagged cuts. His face wore an expression of agony and in his hands was clenched mud and clay which he had grasped in his struggle. There have been telegrams sent from Peoria and Forest Hill, Ill., for his body. The only body thus far shipped is that of ALONZO S. MARKEE of Kansas City, which went this morning to his mother's house at Sumner, Mo. He was probably drowned, there being but few cuts on his body.

Many of the passengers who escaped this morning left for Chicago on the local passenger train. Among them was MAJOR HUDSON, the editor of the Topeka Capital. He said: "When the train went down there was not such babel of cries and horrible confusion of groans as one usually expects. The storm was raging at its height and the night was dark. Work was commenced at once on the wreck, but the light of lanterns gave only flickering beams and it was daylight before any effective service could be rendered."

In the express car the trainmen found a small burro in a box which was completely wedged in by the timbers of the cars. It was taken out unhurt.

The most pathetic sight was that of Mrs. Bausch and her dead infant lying side by side while the little daughter of 2 years of age was crying piteously for her dead mother.

Had the accident happened to the California express with its 350 people, which was the train due at Revere at that time, the disaster would have been far worse and probably had no parallel in this country.

The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO 6 May 1892
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Transcribed by Linda Houston. Thank you, Linda!