Bill Edwards on 10/18/2011 12:30:36 PM:
As a historian I should point out (albeit a couple of years late) that either your year is wrong or it was a different train, as the Katy Flyer was not in service until 1896. It may have been an early MKT train just the same, so they may still have some record of it. There are also some sites that have transcripts of train wreck reports dating back to the 1880s, with a little effort. If you try to find this based on Katy Flyer, however, and it DID happen in 1882, you will not find your answer.