The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

WALsENBURG, Col, Dec. 2O.-A
shocking accident occurred on the Den
yer and Rio Grande road last night, four
miles West of here, in which an engineer
and fireman were instantly killed, and o
large amount ofproperty was destroyed.
A freight train left Laveta, made up of
two engines in front and twenty two
cars of cattle, ten freight cars and ca.
boose, and an engine in the rear. The
train soon broke in three parts, and then
there began race for life, as the middle
section was loose from the caboose with
no brakeman on it. The engines ran
about three miles, at the rate of over a
mile minute down grade ninety feet
to the mile, and here the middle section,
with tweuty-four cars loaded with cattle
and lumber overlook them.
The first engine escaped, but the
second was instantly overwhelmed in a
great mass of flying wreckage, which
buried the engineer and fireman beneath
it, killing them instantly. Portions of
timber on the flying cars vera thrown
over 200 feet when the collision occurred.
Seven cars of cattle and eight cars of
lumber were piled up in the wreck, and
nearly all of the cattle vera killed or
horribly mangled. William Clleyer, the
dead engineer, leaves wife and one
child. Thomas Baker, the fireman, was
a single man. W. II. Ferringer and D.
Edmonson, both brakemen, were severe.
ly injured, and were taken to the com
pany's hospital at Pueblo.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Dec. l8.-That
three smart thieves did not make large
haul from the Slater National Bank,
Pawtucket, to-day, was due to the fact
that only about $4,000 was left on the
counter when they began operations.
The bank had been removed from the
rear 20 the front of the building, and the
partition separating the cashiers desk
from the lobby had been taken down.
Just beyond, a door which separated the
cashiers room from the main banking
room had also been taken away, and
only 9 light iron gate stood between the
cashiers desk and the lobby. The bank
was thus practically doing business out
doors when just after IL o'clock, Teller
3. W. Gardner and Clerk ). F. Brown
ing of the franklin Savings Bank being
present, three strangers entered. The
cashier had gone to dinner and there
we're no patrons present. Two of the
strangers opened q conversation with
Gardner and Browning, one pretending
to be very deaf and causing Gardner to
shout in speaking to him, thus covering
the noise of their confederate's work.
The third, a small wiry fellow, vaulted
the gate, passed into the banking room
and seized the bundles of money lying on
the desk. Something attracted Gard.
ner's attention to the banking room, and
he turned to look. "Don't look that
way! Look at me. Pm hard of hear
ing," said the talker out side the counter.
Mr.. Gardner did look, and saw the third
man grabbing the money. He ran for
him, but the thief bolted, sprang nimbly
over tGe gate, dropping, as he did 80, a
package containing about 81 400. Gard
ner went as far as the door, but having
left the two strangers in the bank he did
not follow further. These two slipped
out upon his return, and all three made
their escape. The man who feigned
deafness is described as past middle age
and as wearing sandy moustache. The
bank officials this evening claim that the
loss will not exceed S1,410.