The Valley Falls New Era Jefferson County Thursday September 29, 1910 Death of John Sloop In a Railroad Wreck. John SLOOP of Boyle was killed in a railroad wreck on a delayed Rock Island train near Clayton, a small town in Norton county, Kansas, last Friday morning, September 23rd. Fifteen others were killed and many injured. It was shortly after midnight when the train, bound for Denver, plunged into twenty feet of water in a usually dry creek, the fill and tracks having been washed out by a heavy rain and cloud burst that night. When too late the engineer realized the danger in the flood, reversed the levers, all he could do, and with the fireman went to his death in the scalding steam and wreckage. John Sloop was riding in the smoker, which being ripped into splinters by the chair car, was the car of death and injury. None in the three Pullmans was hurt and they hastened to the rescue. The Topeka ball team going to Denver helped John out of the wreck, by chopping a hole through the chair car. He was among the first taken to Norton. Mr. Sloop was going there to look after the lands and estate of his uncle, Gottlieb Sloop, who died last winter at John's house. The physician who first gave him attention was the one who had treated Gottlieb, and recognized John. Both of John's legs were broken, one in two places. There were internal injuries and bruises abotu his face and head. Realizing that he was fatally injured, John told the doctor to go aid the others, whose lives might be saved. Giving him a hyperermic injection to relieve John in his last moments, the doctor attended to others. Mr. Sloop lived about eight hours. The wreck occured near the home of Mr. HUGHES, Mrs. Sloop's uncle, who expecting John, had gone to Norton to meet him, where hearing of the trouble he hurried to the scene of the wreck, but could not find John, be having been taken to Norton on the first aid train, and concluding John was not on the train, Mr. Hughes returned home, not hearing of John's death until about noon. The remains accompanied by Mrs. Sloop's cousin, Mr. Hughes, were shipped to Topeka, on a delayed train, where Mrs. Sloop, in great sorrow and distraction, going in neighbor Schrick's car, viewed the body, Sunday. It was shipped to Nortonville Sunday evening and the funeral was held there Monday afternoon. He had left home for Norton, Wednesday evening, going to Topeka to visit his son Homer in a hospital and there boarded the ill-fated Rock Island train.