Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-05-26

~ Caases a Rsphfha ~CoaGagrafisn Whieh
Leads 10 a Potgder Erpiostoa.

~ Casses a Rsphlsa ~Confagraiisn Watch
Leads 10 a Potgder Hrptosion.
DENVER, May 14-News reached
here that 'the thunderbolt" train on
the Santa Fe collided with a freight
train neal Fountain at @ this morning
A car Of powder in the freight train ex-
ploded, completely wrecking both
trains, instantly killing ten persons and
wounding many more.
Later advices from Fountain, the
scene Of the Santa Fe railway accident,
state that train No. z, known rs the
thunder bolt" arrived at Fountain at
241 a. M, and had only been standing
a few minutes when q caboose and some
cars, the brakes Of which had got loose
in some way, ran down from the side
track and struck the train with terrific
force.
The car was loaded with naptha,
which exploded, throwing oil over
|. everything and setting the train on fire.
The trainmen showed the uninjured cars
back from the wreck and were trying to
save the depot when it was discovered
that two cars were standing on the main
! track that were uninjured. The nearest
one was burning and was tagged pow
der. Shortly afterwards the car ex.
/ ploded. completely demolishing the de.
pot, several dwellings and n number oil
cars. One dwelling and the depot were
3 consumed. The persons, n woman
( and two men, were killed by the explo-
sion, and some twelve or fifteen
! persons wounded, none very seriously.
1 There is a hole in the ground where the
= car stood, about thirty feet in diameter
4 and fifteen feet deep. Two cars were
( burned, and sixteen, together with the
4 locomotive, we're more or less wrecked.
4 1t is supposed that tramps let OF the
brakes from the car.
The car that exploded contained H.
900 pounds of powder. The shock was
a felt for a distance of twenty miles.
a Every n OF the twenty houses were
totally destroyed. together with the
new Raptist church. Every ~inhab1tant
k received more or less injuries from the
fying fragments and shock. The yard
oil the Newton Lumber company took
"a ERE and was destroyed. The dead are
as follows:
g. +. Smith, manager Of the Newton
Lumber company, formerly OF heokuk,
iowa. :,
An unknown man, found underneath
IN the engine.
n An unknown railroad man.
iii Lawrence Weihart, struck by fylna
timhers. -
Mrs. wedrig, while standing 60t
,d Yards from the track. was struck on thu
Ne head with a flying holt.
Fl. Hutchins, a merchant, % year
10 old. struck by n bar of iron:
The wounded number fifteen. Th'
damages are estimated at 500, 900.
n cHAPTE OF ACCIDENTS.
Lao o. r. 49,. TZannsal =
Sunday afternoon three men, who's
" names were unknown. started across tn
an Little Sioux river near Otto, in thi
50 county. in a boat. The stream is hadl
so swollen, and their boat became unmar
re agehle and capsized. and all three wer
TO drowned. The bodies were not recoN
,e95 ! cred.
Last evening Thomas Olson, aged I.
fell into the Missouri at this place. an
i, was drowned. The body has not bee
by recovered. He was fishing on the banl
This afternoon Fred G%roniuGer.
m this city, aged IA. was instantly kille
.n% hv the horse which he was riding fallin
OF on him. The accident happened With
nal a few feet Of his fathers house, on Pea
ose Mrs. Daniel Griffith, of Correction
tor Vile, wns suffocated hy coal gas Satu
ON dav night, her body being found in be
yesterday afternoon.
ely HAVOC At QUINCY.
Quincy, Ill. May 14-Indian Gro'
ow levee broke five miles north of Quinc
Her early this morning, flooding hundre'
fer of magnificent farms and running tho
sands of acres of winter wheat. Up
this evening there are four creyasses
cen the emhankment, and the entire lev
district will be covered with water.
tne Snye levee gave way between Ham
WI hal and Louisiana at loon to-day, al
eraI thirty-four miles of the most product,
IaL farms in the Mississippi valley will
flooded. No lives have been lost as Z
u9S people living in the lowlands have he
q watching for a break for the past thr
days.
The river at this point rose sew
inches Yesterday, but has fallen o
srsl inch to-day, the decline being caus
hy the breaks in the levees n I
, Of spreading ont of the water.
om. At Quincy many of the large factor
along the river have been shut dol
ileu but the damage thus far has been sligl
Ian Railroads in the vicinity are experle
onal sing great trouble from the flood and
ave ONE Of them trains have been abs