The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-11-04
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y The first thing fTnew abo ut the accident was
HhenI was thrown mp against the end OF the
berth. r was sleeping at the time, but: this
thoroughly awakened me. Some one at this
iuncturo shoutedss get the PASSENGERS ont. 4
needed no second invitation. but was out Of that
car In no time. Luckily was all dressed and
enabled to be on hand In very few seconds
after the thing happened. Before could reach
the coach beyond the sleepers 1t was all on fire
inside, and flames were bursting through the
windows and root Groaus and shrieks came
from the interior; but we were powerlesslto lend
= hand in saving the unfortunate ones. "a lady
appeared at a window with two children and
handed them to gentleman outside. This
was the most touching episode I ever
Witnessed. and never want to see anything like
1t again. Take my childrenl- ahe cried. Il am
hurt, and cannot get out. Their name Is Scherer
and their home Winona They were young
things tho elder about four years. and the
younger scarcely rs many months We put
forth our most strenuous efforts to save the
mother. but she was caught in the seat, and the
flames driv ing about us. we were Obliged to re-
HnQuish our hold upon her and she fell back
Into the fire and persisted. oh. It was q horrible
sight. The burn ing coach; waa run together,
the top bulged up. making q sort of an mp
turned VI shaped mass Of ruins. The tram men
and surviving passengers did everything In
their power to save the doomed inmates, but all
their efforts were without avail, not q soul ex-
lcepting the two children escaping.
s1S HEROIC ENGINEER
& The engineer Of the train was the nerviest man
Fever saw: When first noticed him blood was
:oozing from his mouth and cara. but he was Civ
Ing orders to the men about uncouplinR the
isleepers from the burning COACH Poor fellow,
he did his duty well. Had he not applied the
brake as soon as he; saw ssdanger the result
would have been worse, and heaven knows It Is
bad enough. The baggageman told me that
when the accident occurred his stove door was
open, and that the shook threw Goals out upon
the floor. Il could easily have extinquIshed the
Hre then he said. but was under q trunk with
my leg broken, and was consequantiy power
.lesk The flames ,instp ntly5 communicated to
the coach, BY this wreck lost my baggage and
money, but when think Of sthe people in. that
burning coach say nothing. b 4.
u: BISHOP wHnPnH's ExpERIrNcE
The bishop described the scene az one Of
the most terrible he had ever witnessed He
had Witnessed the burning OF the cars and
had done all In his power to save the suf-
IererE but without avail He and Mra
Whipple spent last night nt the Merchants,
where many friends called to hear Of their
escape The bishop said sS:.5
When the accident occurred they had retired
to their berths .The shock was not severe. but
sufficient TO awaken them: they got 5outof the
car just as the hames burst forth from the
wrecked passenger coach, and In a very few
moments their aleeper and all the other coaches
but one were burning There was no time to
save anything. and the shivering. poorly -clad
there In the cold night and watch their fellow
passengers slowly; burn to death. The air was
Billed with the groans and cries and ystt1ed
the anap and crackis ct the flames the horrible
odorat burning fesh, the kissing of the steam
rs 1t escaped from the disabled locomotive, all
combined to make the horrors those OF an In
eerno II va
4 Capt John Ames Of Northfe1d,, who wasin
the wreck, describes it as the most awful
one 4 that ever occurred In the Northwest
His story is very graphic:
CAPT. AMEs' STORY. t3
It was between 2:2O and 1890 last night
9 ns hsyng
hind time and our train was running certainly
ty-fye mtles an hour. AL Of the passengers
agree on this. Just q abort distance west OF Bio
lh,freight fnin had left the main track and taken
AswiIch. This switch was left open. The frat
known OF the aectdent by the passengers was
three solid jerks to the cars, after which the
TO q dead stop. Our car porter told US there was
no trouble, but we got out as soon as possible.
AZ soon n we were on the ground we saw that
Ehe passenger coach had been telescoped from
four TO ak feet at each end, and that fire had
broken ont In 1t. This all within less than a
minute. Then the horrors began. We none of VA
knew how many there were in the passenger
coach, hut by comparing notes we came to the
c6nclusion that there were from flfteensto TWEEN
ty-three. The conductor. In the shake-up, had
lost his tickets, and could not tell but the gen
cra1 impression seemed to fix on twenty three.
OF these only three escaped The first, young
man. orawled through hole in Che top Of the
cars and there were two children belonging to
Mrs. Scherer OF 5Winona. taken out by Mr., Nc
Ginnis OF Morris and Bishop Wh1pple The
heroisIn of these Two men was something won
derfnl, working a. they did to save not only The
children but others. Met inniss bravery was
|nnexampled When he got ont Of the sleeper,
ho found Mrs. Scherer. her mother-in-law and
her two children ut one OF the windows Of the
burning coach The two women were ptnioned
down BY the seats. Mrs. Scherer passed ont one
Of the children TO Moe innis and Bishop Whtpple
got the other a ~.
eLoWLY ROASTED ToEDEATH