Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-06-29
Shocking Railroad Disaster.
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or BEAUTIFUL SUBURB IN ssckclors AND lsats.


OR BEAUTIFUL SUBURB IN SsckcIoTs AND asats
y Graphic Account 'v our Ccrr">I"rIcrt
BrItN
One of the most frightfu, calitn-
TO- which "a has heen the painful
duty ut Npar currc~pUnde nt /"
report for months, occurred last Sat
urlav on 'he .. :. Il. Il. near the
SWautown bridge. Tue I'm Cup
i,irta.in EId succeeded II getting
four cal, we'll Ioa led with twenty
four ounces OF earth Oh each by thIee
O'Clock p. NJ. The cars we're stand
ia. at the cad u: lie Fourth street
ylAle, wheir the tall Is at least oiN
inches to hundred miles. 1nr IL
borers looked Hale ana hearty a. they
stood there unSusplcIOuS OF danger
aimed with their Shields, ready .0r
Ike awful decent EyerythlnS IA
been done Brown, ahi looked rs gay
Il n.uN i,itlitd .ad!os Just odr OF
thea dic--ln. Chambers. y few
mlle>. ami, O'Brlcn V deep will le-
ce,ve tie LOADS vi mother eMtA
wtich are to span the gap separating
East Oily mpla from its par, ut CITY.
/ Tie shull whistle sounded, the start
and the .Allahoard :" in clarion
NOES from the executive officer
brought mHn, women and children to
! the doors o! Swan OWL homes to gaze
at the moving train. TIE couduc-
tor and the engineer had both failed
to notice that 800 or 400 mosquitoes
had alighted upon the track, about
half WAY down the decllyity. The
hiss, hiss, hiss, OF the steam chests,
told that the train was moving out.
As its speed Increased each par
licular" Swantown" hair stood on
end" Old ladies tainted, and stout
men held their breath. The crowds
on Main Street hocked to the corners
OF Fourth to listen, look and wait.
On came the tram with roar like an
avalanche from Rainier's or side, as
an Iowa cyclone. And now the en-
ripeer for the first time discovers the
mosquito drove upon the track. A
shrill, loud, "down brakes" comes
from the iron horse, but to no pur-
pose. On goes the train into the
living mass. AS the engine struck
the mosquitoes 1t leaped thIee.fourtha
of an inch into the air and went rolling
down aprecipice seventeen inches
high, tearing the engine into l 900
pieces, killing the engineer, fireman,
and 10 mosquitoes. The cars broke
loose from the engine, one going to
the right, striking 2x4 scantling
which lay in the street and upsettins,
the others running to the end of
the track and suddenly stopped
bottom up, being prevented from
going into the bay by piece OF
; cotton Irvine, which some boy luckily
had left tied to two of the inch
Q square banister posts. DR.. - is
q attending half a dozen of the Til
Cup Brigade who were wounded III
the catastrophe, while the City faith
> ers arc cas- ing about for another ell.
yineer. As result of the nccIdt hi
t the taxpayers are Out auou'
G. twenty five dollars per day for tel
days, and only enough earth to I'll
two flower boxes has been dumped
: into the bloody chasm' between
e Swantown and Olympia. Shakespeare
: Tor some other fossiD says, " The
II worlds a railroad, and all the PEG
pie are engineers. With prophet,
!. eye, his giant intellect swept bacl
II the curtain of futurity, and down
the long vista did he beheld the
sad catastrophe which our feeble pei
has attempted to portray. Thus die
he draw lessons not only from tn
past but from the dim perspective
which limits the range of morta
vision.
IS Your correspondent will endeavo
to keep the public Informed of til
thrilling events likely to result fror
the employment of purely scientiii
methods of attaining practical re
suits; and although his descrlptlv
D. powers may not rlval those of DeaI
Swift, he is not compelled to invad
the realms of fancy Tor material wi
~ which 10 portray picture at one
,oyol ont .,,o,acnuo RnHAy