Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-09-19
MashNut Nnfes

None Of the freight cars left the track, and no damage to the freight was accustomed.
 A temporary track has been laid around the wreck and the train has been moved up to PaDtsno station.
 One of the rails remained intact, but as one side of the road bed gave way and the engine careened. the lower rail was torn loose.
 The lineman, Mir. Ray. got the tele- graph wire m working order very promptly and communication by wire was opened with Pansano a few hours after his arrival there.
 Supt. Muir has been on the scene. giving 1t his personal supervision ever since he first went out. He is indefst- igsble in his efforts to bridge the wstery chasm, and he urges the workmen to more vigorous and energetic exertions.
 In some portions of the Cienega, where 1t Is nearly or quite two hundred feet wide, there are evidences of the water having been from sixty to eighty feet deep. The water now is confined to small running stream in the usual channel
 Len Harris bore his severe injuries with extreme fortitude and brsvely bUre the tortures occasioned by the natural !olting of the vehicle when his condi- tion was, in point of soreness snd pain fulness, akin to that of the historical Job in his fiery sffiiction.
 Dr. Hsndy's prompt response 10 the call for his professional services, and his endurance of the fatigues and hard ships in reaching the scene of the scci- dent, are commented upon as the most self-sacrlficing devotion to the call of suffering humanity that has been wit messed for years.
 The track was not all washed away through the CIenegs. The bridges and culverts and their approaches suffered the most. These places are being tenn porarily repaired by means of "crib- bing' with ties under the track. The permanent repairs will require quite a time to complete.
 Judge Campbell and Len Harris were sitting in chairs in the caboose at the time of the accident. The shock of the sudden stopping of the train threw them both forwsrd. Judge Campbell was thrown into the narrow passage way of the caboOse, and escaped without in- jury, but Len Harris brought up against the partition and was generally bruised from head to foot. His flesh lis decorated with fresooes of many hues and be is very sore. It will be @ week or ten days before he fully recovers from the effects of his injuries.
 Dr. Handy, Judge Campbell, Len Harris and Mir. Ray, the line rspsirer of the Western Union Company, returned yesterday by buggy from Psntano. They were caught in a cold and drenching rain, and when they reached the camp of the workmen at thIs end of the break they were badly chilled. They built a rOusing fire there and resumed their journey homeward after getting their somewhat dried. The shiver- ing travellers at that particular time would have welcomed flask of whisky like ray of divine lIght from the won- drous shores of the land of golden glory, and II was about as difficult to obtain.
 Dr. Handy and Supt. Muir promptly to the first intimstion of disaster and they were the first to reach the wrecked bridge at this end of the washout. The water at that time, hay ing completed its work of destruction, had subsided considerably. The ties were still clinging te the rails over the ieep abyss, and the fish plates kept the | -aIls from parting. Over this swinging | and dangerous wreck Supt. Muir in- | irepidly walked, even in the darkness of | he night, tut he found that it was im- | possible to get through that way and he | to the city for horses and went | lround on the foothills. He started up he work of repair at once, and expects | O get train across tonight.
 The freight train was ditched sbout | ,ne and one-half miles east of Pantano. -t was running slowly st the time. ss here was considerable water on each | ide of the track and the road bed had by the ram. Just ss Fireman smith was about to call Engineer attention to the track settling, he engine careened and a moment later Fas ditched, together with the tender md the water car. The fireman was astened under a portion of the cab and me of hls legs was injured considerably, ut 1t IS now thought he will be around n a weeks time. He found himself, fter the catastrophe, very close to B team valve from which the scsldiug apor was pouring out upon hIm. With are presence of mind he reached out is hand and succeeded in turning it of, nd saved his life. He was extrIcsted rom his perilous imprisonment by the ram men, only after large excavation ad been made in the ground for that urpose.