The injured were pinned beneath the wreckage and as the flames reached them they begged piteously to be released. Every person in the motor car was killed, it is stated. With the collision came the explosion of the gasoline reservoir of the motor car setting both the motor car and the train afire. Many of these were taken to Neosho, Mo.Īccording to reports received here, both the motor car and the train were running at a high rate of speed when they met at a small siding known as Tipton's Ford. The injured were placed aboard and brought back to Joplin and tonight the hospitals were crowded. When the news of the wreck reached Joplin, every available physician and nurse was rushed to a relief train. A number begged to be killed rather than face a slow death by fire. The heavy train crushed the motor car like paper and the crash was immediately followed by the fire which spread death and injury to almost every one on the motor.Īs the fire spread, groans of the persons pinned under the wreckage could be heard. The motor car was telescoped and its gasoline reservoir exploded, throwing burning oil over the wreckage. Each is said to have been running thirty-five miles an hour. With supposedly a clear track ahead, the passenger train plunged at full speed into the motor car which was coming from the opposite direction. ISA SETTEKY, Morton, Iowa, cuts and bruises. LITTLETON, Harrison, Ark., Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad special agent, fractured ribs and bruises. LOVA ESHLEMAN, Dewey, Okla., dangerously burned and bruised.ĭORA MAJOR, Seattle, Wash., internal injuries. (Negroes.)ĭORA AND FAYS HARMON, children of MRS. TRUMBAUGH, Neosha, Mo., live stock agent K. HERBERT RATCLIFF, Eureka Springs, Ark., brakeman. 6 - Thirty-nine known to be dead, eight still missing and twenty-five dangerously injured was today's revised toll of last night's wreck between a Kansas City Southern passenger train and a Missouri and North Arkansas railroad gasoline motor car at Tipton Ford, Mo., ten miles from here.Ī coroner's inquest into the wreck will be held late today at Neosha. TRAIN CRASHES INTO MOTOR VEHICLE, AND SCORES SUFFER. Cemetery in Neosho, MO)ģ9 ARE KILLED OUTRIGHT 25 HURT IN WRECK.
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