Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-11
DEATH ON THE HILL.
Two Railroad Accidents - Three Men
Killed and Five Injured.

Word was telegraphed about noon yester-
day of the wrecking of freight train near
the Summit and the injury of several of
the train-men. The wrecking car and crew
were at once dispatched to the scene with
a surgeon. 1t appears that at IL o'clock
freight train No I which left here the
night before, had just emerged, or nearly
SO, from tunnel No. u, some four miles
east of the Summit, when the locomotive
cOllided with a rock that had fallen or
rolled upon one of the rails. The result
was that the locomotive and five freight
cars were thrown from the track and badly
wrecked. The engineer Henry Kern, was
badly injured, also Charles Willard, the
fireman. Brakemen Schwallenberg, VIII
ingham and McAla ster We're considerably
bruised, but their injuries are not as great
as those Of Kern and Willard
4 SECOND AND FATAL COLLISION.
As the wrecking train was proceeding to
the scene of the disaster, and had reached
point a short distance east of Emigrant
Gap, about o'clock last evening, another
and fatal disaster occurred. The trainmen
had been notified to proceed slowly, as it
was known that a force of railroad carpen-
ters was somewhere on the road coming
down the grade on a hand-car. Hence the
wrecking train was going up the hill at n
very moderate rate of speed. Suddenly, in
rounding a sharp curve, it encountered the
hand-car, with eight or ten carpenters on
board. coming down so swiftly that a COLI
sion was inevitable. All of the men on the
hand-car jumped in time to save them
selves except three-G. w. Moore, Lewis
Gregg and James Stevens. These We're
either paralyZed with fear or had not time
TO leave the car, and were run over and
killed.
Moore, who had been in the railroad
employ for some time, was a brother-in-
law of ex-SupervisOr Joseph Sims, Of this
county, and has a brother living near St.
JOseph's Cemetery, in this city, to whom
news of the accident was sent last night.
Gregg was recently from Plymouth,
Amador county, and in company with
Stevens left this city on Sunday evening to
join the carpenter force on the mountain
The latter had been recently in the employ
Of Theodore Winters, on his place near
town, and later still was 4 boarder at the
Mechanics Exchange on | street.
These were all the particulars obtainable
last night. 1t is presumed that the bodies
will be brought here on this mornings
overland train. unless detained in Placer
county for the purposes Of an inquest.
THE INJURED TRAINMEN.
The men injured by the accident in the
morning all arrived in the city last night
Some of them went to their homes and
others were taken to the Railroad Hospital.
Engineer Kern's injuries are chiefly con
fined to one shoulder, which is quite pain
full; Schwalenberg is hurt in the back, and
fireman Willard is thought to have suf-
fered a fracture of one thigh. The other
two men got off with slight bruises.
One Of the latter stated that himself and
two OF his fellow brakemen were iammed
into a space scarcely large enough to ac-
and over them was piled lot of firewood
etc. The situation was very trying until
they managed to crawl out, as there was
danger of an explosion in which case they
would have been scalded to death