The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-05

| 9ranO trunk railway this morning
whereby some twenty persons wer'
killed and large number injured
The accident was caused by freigh1
train running into the rear end of .
standing suburban passenger train
The victims were nearly all Cana
dians.
| LATER.
TORONTO, Jan. 2.-One of the mos
narrowing calamities which has hap
pened in this neighborhood for Ions
time, occurred here this morning or
the Grand Trunk road. A suburban
train left the Union station at 6:4(
with car attached filled with EN-
ployees of the bolt works, who live
in the city and are conveyed to theil
daily labor by this means the train
stopping for them opposite the works
After turning the curve at Parkdalt
boundary, freight train was OBJ
served coming cityward, but the i'm
petus of both trains was too much to
allow the brakes to do duty in time
and the result was fearful smash up
ending in shocking tragedy.
Nineteen men employed at
the bolt works are reported killed
and twenty or thirty wounded. The
conductor Of the freight train, Geo.
Barber, is said to be responsible for
the accident, as he was running bis
train without orders. He has been
arrested. Last accounts place the
number OF dead at ~. Several are
injured and so badly manned that
they are not expected to recover.
An inquest was held this afternoon.
A jury was empanelled and viewed
the bodies. The affair casts q gloom
over the city. The wounded are Iy-
ing in the hospital, and several doc
tors are giving them every attention.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-The Ne,us To-
ronto special says at 7 o'clock this
morning a suburban train bearing
about fifty men to their work at
Humber was run into by a special
train coming east at frightfui speed.
The dummy engine was driven into
the single car used for suburban
traffic and the escaping steam and
hot water scalded the men in the
most horrible manner. A fire also
resulted from the collision and sew
eral poor fellows were roasted to
death. A special car was sent out to
the scene of the disaster from here as
quickly as possible, and the un-
fortunate conveyed to the town,
while ambulances, buses and private
carriages carried them tOthe hospital.
There were q killed outright and %
wounded, some Of them fatally. The
men were packed in the Car, sitting
around the stove chatting about New
Years, holiday pleasures, etc. The
scene at the accident was most pitt
full. The men were most horribly
Human bodies were
mingled with the wreck. Their suf-
fering was terrible, and groans from
the injured were heart-rending. Sew
eral men had their legs tangled in
the wreck, and while their bodies |
we're protruding from the burning |
pile their legs were being gradually |
roasted. Others who had been |
,calded, and afte1ward extricated,
implored those standing about 10
throw water on their wounds. One
man had both eyes burned out and
al his fingers burned off. He lay
dying in the snow, waving the
stump of his hands and shouting at
The top of his voice.
On rounding sharp curve just be-
fore reaching the bolt works the en-
yineer saw the freight train coming
down the grade toward
him. He reversed the engine, blew
1 warning, and with the fireman
umped for his life. The conductor
heard the warning. and shouting,
Jump, boys, for your lives !"spruDg
INTO the snow. In a second more
here was a terrific crash. The en-
yine of the freight train knocked the
ooiler dummy through the first car
the unfortunate passengers
n every direction and pinning many
% the floor. The fOr:e was so great
hat the engine actually mounted
he back OF the dummy which hept
he rails and remained on balance.
The engineer of the freight train.
when he saw a collision was newt
lble, sprang from the engine, but
Thomas, the fireman, was killed in
,tantly. To add to the horror of the
scene the boiler of the dummy ex-
3loded, and steam from the boiler
icalded and carried death or ter
'ible injury to the mangled and
bleeding men. Then fire, as if mad
lened at the other agencies for
so many victims, broke out
md completed the sickening work of
Shrieks. groans and
leart rending cries for help from the
lgOnized sufferers rent the air. Sev-
raj poor fellows, suffering untold
Ieonies, with limbs and bodies burnt
'r.sp, piteously implOred those near
hem to pour water upon their scald-
d limbs or put an end to their suffer-
ngs. Strong men looked on appalled,
nd many an eye was dim with tears.
every possible phase of dis
igurement was to be seen. Limbs
we're cut, bruised, mangled, or half
aten away by fire Or swollen to an
normous size by steam or water.
10 possible horror was lett to the
no more awful scene
ould be witnessed. The first passen-
er car was a terrible wreck, and
everal hours elapsed before the poor
elbows buried beneath the debris
7ere extricated. A relief party OF 30 or
men were soon on the scene and at ,
nee set to work to rescue the sufferers
nd at about ten o'clock a car load of ,
cad and injured was on its way to :
be city. On arriving at Union sta ,,
ion an ambulance wagon and several ,
abs and buses were in waiting. A
arge crowd had gathered, and as one
fter another of the dead and wound
were carried from the car to the /.
many turned sick at the :,
ight. The wounded men bear their
offerings with fortitude and pa
ience, a few groans being the only
Indication OF their intense agony.
1t the morgue Is bodies were placed
ide ny side in rows opposite the
ide rooms. Mothers, sisters, fathers
nd brothers were to be seen passing
rom body to body, and with trem-
ling hands lifting The cOVerlet tn