Dover, Oklahoma Train Wreck
September, 1906
Rock Island Disaster in Oklahoma ----- One
Known to Be Dead.
Kingfisher, O. T. --- While it is
believed that several lives were lost Thursday
when two cars of Rock Island train No. 12,
northbound, went into the Cimarron river at
Dover, Oklahoma, because of the collapse of a
bridge, no body has been recovered and the only
person on the train positively known to have
perished is HANK
LITTLEFIELD, an employe [sic] of the
Forepaugh-Sells circus, who was drowned.
The injured are:
GEORGE L. WRIGHT,
Denver, badly bruised, head cut.
MRS. ROBINSON, Enid, Oklahoma, badly
bruised.
C. W. BROWN, Comanche, arm wrenched.
MRS. W. E. SCHUSSER, Dallas, back
slightly injured.
C. W. BAKER, Oklahoma City, arm
dislocated.
Three-year-old child of
MRS. KATE SELLS, Payne, Ohio,
strangled from effects of water, can not live.
SIMON W. BYRON, fireman, shoulder
dislocated, cut on head and neck.
Engineer ILES, cut on head.
W. H. SPITZ, Enid, arm sprained and
fingers cut.
The injured are being cared for here.
The engine tender, baggage and mail car, smoker
and day coach of passenger train No. 12,
northbound, left the high bridge that spans the
Cimarron river and plunged into the current
flanked by treacherous quicksands.
The locomotive disappeared from sight almost
immediately. The mail and baggage clerks escaped
from their coaches and swam to the shore.
The accident was due to the defective condition
of the bridge, which was swerved out of line by
the pressure of driftwood carried down by the
swollen stream.
Summit County Journal Colorado 1906-09-22
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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