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- A Terrible Disaster
While freight train No.36 in charge of Conductor Daniels was coming east and passing through DeSoto, a little town twenty miles west of Argentine about 7 o’clock Saturday morning, the engine, the 1120, in charge of Engineer F.W. Bartell and Fireman W.W. Dortch, exploded just as it reached the Kill creek bridge, which is just at the east end of the DeSoto switch. The force of the explosion wrecked the bridge and into the creek below plunged the engine followed by fourteen cars containing hogs, cattle and merchandise. Engineer Bartell and H.E. Shaw, head brakeman, who was riding in the engine were buried in the wreck. The escape of Fireman Dortch was most miraculous. He was thrown by force of the explosion clear of the wreckage into Kill creek where he caught hold of a piece of driftwood and drifted out into the Kaw river which is only a short distance from the bridge. There he changed to get hold of a piece of one of the demolished cars and on it, wet and half frozen, floated down the rived till rescued by a man in a boat several miles below near Loring on the opposite side of the river. He was taken to a farm house more dead than alive. He has fully recovered and has returned to his home in this city where he was a young wife to whom he was only recently married. The dead body of Brakeman Shaw has been taken from beneath the wreck and was removed to his old home at Topeka for burial. He resided at 34 North Seventh street this city and leaves a wife and child 3 months old. When The Republic went to press the body of Engineer Bartell had not been recovered from the wreck. He resided on South Seventh street this city where he leaves a wife and child. Brakeman Shaw was just making his second trip on the road when he lost his life. The wreck crew from here are getting the wreck pretty well cleared up.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15450568/hessey-e-shaw
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- Hesse Shaw, who is well known in this part of the county and a son of Mrs. England at Rock Creek, was killed in the wreck at Desoto on the Santa Fe and was buried last Tuesday in the Rochester cemetery. He leaves a wife and a found months old baby.
The Meriden Ledger, Meriden, Kansas. Thursday, 24 January 1907.
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- Topeka State Journal, January 21, 1907 p.5
The body of H. E. Shaw, the Santa Fe brakeman who was killed at a wreck at De Soto Saturday, reached Topeka early Sunday morning and was taken to the Conwell undertaking rooms. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at one o'clock from the Walnut Grove M. E. church and the burial will be in Rochester cemetery. Mr. Shaw formerly lived in the neighborhood. He had but recently gone into the train service and this was his fourth trip out.
Topeka State Journal, January 21, 1907 p.5
Deaths and Funerals
The funeral of Brakeman H. E. Shaw, who was killed in the wreck at DeSoto Saturday morning, will take place Tuesday at 1 p.m. from the Walnut Grove church at Sixteenth and Harrison streets. The interment will follow in Rochester cemetery.
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1882 - 1907 (24 years)
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