Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-02
4 RAILR AD DISASTER
The Second Section of a ST.
Louis Express Runs Into
the First Section.
Four Persons Known to Have
Been Killed and Many
More Injured.

ALBANY. September 27.-The first sec.
ton OF the st. Louis express was run into
tonight near Pa1atine bridge by the Sec
ond section, and the rear car telescoped.
There is no night telegraph Office at Pala-
time bridge and details are hard to get. A
relief train with physicians has been sent
out.
ALBANY, September 2S.-2. q. m.-
Nothing definite has yet bernhard as to
the number killed or injured. 1t is re-
ported now that three coaches were
wrecked. Two wrecking trains have gone
to the scene
The train wrecked is the one which goes
via Niagara Falls & Michigan Southern
route. A special from Canaiaharis says
great excitement prevails and that the
dead is estimated at from twenty to thirty.
PALErINE BRIDGE, September 27.-The
st. Louis express which left Albany at 10
O'Clock last night met vith a bad accident
about two miles east Of here. At mid
night the first section broke down
and stopped for repairs. The rear brake
man was sent back to signal the Sec
ond section directly in front oil
him. The first section was made
up OF baggage, mail, express and Tires
pAssenger cars packed with people and "a
Wagner sleeper on the end. The crash
was terrific. The second section telescoped
the first section knocking out the lights and
~plunging everything into darkness. Up to
this hour, 2 q. M, four bodies have been
taken out of the sleeper and it Is feared
the total number of deaths will reach
twenty-five and possibly more as the cal
was full. It is difficult to get particulars
at this hour.
ALBANY, September 20, 8 q. m.-Authen-
tic Information received here says four
persons were killed in the accident at Pala-
tine bridge, three men and one woman.
Engineer Horth. of Albany, had both legs
broken. The superintendent has issued
orders that the injured be conveyed to
hotels and taken care OF.
NEW YORK, September GA cores
pendent OF the Time who was on the
wrecked train says that when the crash
came he was asleep in the coach next
ahead of the sleeper in the first sec
tion. The car was erowed with
passengers. The wreck could not
have occurred in a more unfavor'
able place and everything except
the coaches was in pitch darkness. For a
while the people were too dazed to know
anything. The engineer of the second sec
ton, William Horth, when seen, was suffer.
ing great pain and could talk bbt little
The train men were mute as usual under
such circumstances.
The engine of the second section was
wrecked beyond redemption. The roof oil
the express car which was Immediately be-
L:zl LoI ~~,, khr1rUh tho ooh onI
thrown the engineer to the ground. The
fireman made his escape by jumping be-
yond this. The second section was not
:amaged, the heavy vestibule sleepers pro-
tecting it from telescoping.
The heavy sleepers on the first section
sustained the shock OF the collision and
saved three passenger coaches in front
filled with men, women and children from
destruction. There was not q doc.
tor on board and it was very
difficult to get restoratives for the injured,
1t was not till q large bonfire was built on
the north eide Of the track that a realizing
sense OF the disaster was obtained. Already
six wounded passengers, including onelady
have been taken from the Wagner sleeper
Axes and saws were procured and will
away the sides of telescoped cars. How
many bodies, il any, are left in the wreck
il is impossible to tell. When the CORE
| spondent left the scene they had not made
much p: ogress.
The correspondent tried in vain before
leaving to find the rear brakeman OF the
| first section. He is the most important
person now, for it Was his duty to. rur
back at least six hundred yards the mo-
ment the train stops. There is @ discrep
ancy as to the length of time the first sec
tion was standing at Palatine while ths
engineer was making repairs. Some claim
that scarcely a moment elapsed before tn
crash, and others that they were standin.
fully five minutes.
The correspondent and a passenger
| walked two miles to Palatine village anC
| aroused surgeons who were hurried to tn
front as quickly as possible. Assistance
wal also telegraphed for from other points
The latest report that four bodies hav'
| been taken from the wreck is all the au
| ;hentic news now ebtainable. It i
feared the list OF dead will reach mucl
| higher.