People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — THREE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING. [ARTICLE]

THREE DEAD, ANOTHER DYING.

Result of the Collision of Motor Cars Near St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., March 10. —Three men are dead and one more is not expected to live as the result of Sunday night’s collision on the St. Louis & Kirkwood electric line. Fifty more are more or less seriously, but not fatally, injured. The dead are: RICHARD LANIGAN, insurance agent, St. Louis. JUNIUS A. JONES, claim agent Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway. J. H. AIKEN, motorman car No. 3, east-bound. Will probably die: Sam Smith, motorman car No. 2, west-bound; both legs broken, head crushed, internally injured. Among the more seriously injured are the following: Jacob Goss, St. Louis; spine injured. Mrs. G. Spencer, Selma; compound fracture of both legs. Herman Mueller, 8 years old. St. Louis; arm broken and foot smashed. Joseph Stailin, St. Louis; foot crushed. Peter Ryan, St. Louis; hip crushed and knee cut. Henry Webster, St. Louis; foot crushed. James McGrath Kirkwood; leg broken. Dr. M. G. Marshall, dentist, St. Louis; leg broken. Hy L. Floerke, St. Louis; ankle broken. General Manager Houseman states positively that the entire blame rests with J. H. Aiken, the motorman of the east-bound car. who was so seriously injured that he died.