Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1882-05-19
DEATHS DOINGS.
Sad Disaster, Following Faster and Still
Faster, Spreading Sorrows and
Woes Wherever it Goes.
The Festive Town Cow Makes a Crane
Row in the Sward Grass and the
New Sowa Garden Sass.
The Ubiquitous Tone Of the Talking Tele.
phone would Make a Loud Sound
for the Capital Town.
Another Accident,

A little after eleven O'Clock yesterday
morning, as the work train was return
ing from Sanborn, and was about three
miles cast of Spiritwood, it left the track,
and in doing SO was precipltatcd down
a tifteen-fcct embankment, killing three
men and wounding several others more or
less severely. The train had been east.
picking up old iron, and consisted of the
engine, which was backing up, and Ca
boose, which it was drawing, and had on
board twenty-sevcn worilmen, who were
nearly all bruised, more or less, in the
catastrophe. The evidence showed the
accident to have been caused by the beam
of the brake on the tender coming down,
throwing the tender from the track.
which, IN turn drew the engine OF and
the caLoosc followed. Two of the men
killed were brought to jamestown, and
the third was still under the wreck at
last accounts, with large force at work
trying to recover the body. Judge Stein
bach was notified OF the affair and at
once proceeded to hold
THE INQUEST
in the baggage room Of the depot, where
the two bodies were laid. Messrs. E.
Elmer, NJ. n. Sanborn and E. f. Horn
being selected as the jury and Mir. Judklns
as clerk the inquest began. The Jury,
Jerry Behan conductor, Wallace AIcIcan
fireman, and Chief Eoad master A. E..
Taylor were sworn in and Bchan stated
the facts as given above and Identified the
bodies as W. l.. Turner and Morris Ita-
cine, the former a brakeman and the lat
ter a workman on his train. lie said Tur-
ner was sitting on the front steps of the
caboosc and Iiacine was inside the Ca
boose when the accident occurred. Behan
was also inside the cabOosc at the time of
the accident.
Walter Mclean testified that
the man who was under the engine at
last accounts Was sitting on his seat IN
the cab at the time when the train went
OFT. Mclean was thrown into the water
which was beside the track, and when
he got out he at once assisted to get his
brother, who was the engineer, out, and
also to assist the others. The engineer
was badly cut about the head and IS now
at the Dakota House. Mclean ESCAPED
unhurt save some slight bruises.
Mr. Taylor testified that he was in VAL
ley City at the time of the accident, and
at once went to the scene of The disaster
lie Identified Turner and stated that this
morning he was to have been given
charge of a work train at Whealland.
DR.. Baldwin was sworn and made an
examination Of the bodies, and decided
that Turner came to his death from in
ternal injuries, and that Racine had re-
ceived sufficient bruises on the head and
face to have caused death.
The inquest was then adjourned until
this morning at 8 O'Clock when it is ex-
pccted the body Of the third man will
have been recovered.
The bodies were searched and some
money and papers were found. Turner
belongs in Stevens Point, Wis. The
bodies were turned over to the railroad
company, who will ray all expenses
and bury the bodies.
The track in the vicinity Of Spirltwood
seems to have had more than its share OF
accidents, no less than three having oc-
cured there tins spring, in two of which
deaths have been recorded