Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-06-02

H Cs~sss "a RspAtha CoHJEagvafioa Watch
Leads 10 a I'esOdsr Ecrpiosion.

H cssases "a RspAtha ConJEagrafios Watch
Leads 20 a poiSdsr ErpiosioH.
DENVER, May 14.-News reached
here that 'the thunderbolt" train on
the Santa Fe collided with freight
train near 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 adyices from Fountain, the
scene Of the Santa Fe railway accident.
state that train No. Z, known as the
thunder bolt" arrived at Fountain at
2:41 n. m, and had only been standing
a few minutes when 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 uninjnred cars
back from the wreck and were trying tu
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 denIolishing the de
pot, several dwellings and n number Of
cars. One dwelling and the depot were
consumed. The persons, one woman
and two men, were killed by the explo-
sion, and some twelve or fifteen
persons wounded, none very seriously
There is hole in the ground where the
aA1n1 aI,.,,N s,.ttv ~ IN, I'm
and fifteen feet deep. Two cars wer
burned, and sixteen, together with the
| locomotive, were more or less wrecked
1t is supposed that tramps let off the
brakes from the car.
The car that exploded contained IT,
| 900 pounds of powder. The shock was
| felt for q distance of twenty miles.
Every one Of the twenty houses were
totally destroyed. together with the
| new Raptist church. Every inhalifant
| received more or less injuries from the
| flying fragments and shock. The yard
| nf the Newton Lumber company took
fire and was destroyed. The dead are
/ rs follows:
G. r. Smith, manager of the Newton
lumber company, formerly Of Keofuk,
iowa.
An unknown man, found underneath
the enoine.
An unknown railroad man.
Lawrence Weihart, struck by flying
timherS.
Mrs. wedrig, while standing coo
wards from the track was struck on the
hend with flying holt.
". Hutchins, a merchant GO years
old. struck by har of iron.
The wounded number fifteen. The
damages are estimated at $4,000
A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.
SIOUX CRY, Ia, Nav IA Especial. j
Sunday afternoon three men, whose
names were unknown, started across tht
Little Sioux river near Otto, in thii
comfy. in boat. The stream is badly
swollen. and their boat hecnme unman
ngehle and capsized. and all three were
drowned The bodies were not recoy
cred.
Inst evening Thomas Olson. AGED 10
fell into the Missouri Mt this place. ant
was drowned. The body has not beer
recovered. He was fishing on the hank
This afternoon Fred Groninrer. o
this CITY, aged IA. was instantly killed
Inv the borse which he was riding fallins
on him. The accident happened within
few feet OF his fathers house, on Pear
street
Mrs. Daniel Griffith. OF Correction
Vile. was suifnrated hy coal gas Satur
day NIGHT, her body being found in be-
yesterday afternoon.
TERRIBLE HAVOC AT QUINCY.
QuIScY, Ill. May l4.-Indian Grow
levee broke five miles north of Quinc!
early this morning, flooding hundred
Of magnificent farms and running thou
sands OF acres of winter wheat. Up t
this evening there are four crevasses il
the emhankment, and the entire leye
district will be covered with water.
Snye levee gave way between HHnni
hal and Louisiana at noon to-day, ant
thirty-four miles of the most productive
farms in the Mississippi valley will b
, flooded No lives have been lost as tn
people living in the lowlands have heel
watching for break for the past tire
days.
The river ut this point rose sevel
inches yesterday, but has fallen on
inch to-day, the decline being cause,
by the breaks in the levees and tn
spreading out of the water.
AT Quincy many of the large factorie
, along the river have been shut dow
hut the damage thus far has been slight
: Railroads in the vicinity are experien
sing great trouble from the flood and OF
, ,ome of them trains have been aban
| 1nned