Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1890-11-21
DISASTER IN OREGON
Shocking Railway Accident Five
Niles from Salem
IRAN GOES THROUGH 4 IRESILE.
TouF rsr.ons Taken out Dead and Many
i~nlured-Tua Of the Iulursd neisnE 90
k~ansss-Jack Crawford. the
scsut. Hurt.

scsai. uurl.
SAtrM. Ore. Nov. lA-Shorty after
s.5o o'clock last night the overland
Southern Pacific passenger train. south
hound. went through the north end Of a
long trcstle over Lake Labish, about
i've miles from here.
The trcstie must Rave given away a.
soon as the engine struck H. aud the
train and trestle all vent down to-
gcther The engine was overturned and
half buried in the mud. and following
this were the tender. matt. baggage aud
express cars smoking car and tourist
sleeper All were torn 10 pieces
Engineer John McFaddcn, Fireman
Tim Neal aud an unknown man we're
killed. The following we're injured:
Captain Jack raw ford, the poet
scout bruised
samuel Arson. OF New York City,
side aud back sprained.
Mrs r. C. Boyle, May and Nellie
BOYLE, Of NJ ssoula. Mont
Wilson Berry. Of North Dakota, IN
jured about tho throat
c NJ Burris. Of Ellsworth. Kan, back
sprained
Fred Waite. Of Ellsworth. Kan.
spraincd, and 10 Is thought received
internal injuries.
DR.. Hammol aud wife. OF Philadel-
phia, both injured about the spine.
They were returning from a trip around
the world
j. l. Kimball, Of Necuah, Wis, back
hurt
G. Gricbel. a traveller for the Val
Blatz Brewing Company, Of Milwaukee.
g. g. Newhall. Of Pleasant Forks,
Canada, painfully injured about the
throat
James McGarry, United States mar
shall Of Salt Lake, l.. T., nose broken,
leg probably broken and badly injured
internally. II Is feared he will die.
The train carried over 100 persons.
nearly all OF whom we're more or less
injured.
The frsi-class day coach was saved
from going over, %alighting with the
front end on an old tree broken of
about even with the ~trestle. Tho seats
and the partitions in the car were
broken into ltindling wood. Then fol-
lowed the smoker, the seats in
which were nearly all broken.
The next was the tourist sleeper,
in which were twenty-five or thirty
passengers. OF this humber only three
were injured The next was the Pull
man "Alatia, with seventeen passen-
gers, and only three escaped without
injury. The next and last car was the
Pullman 'Rosehurg,' in which we're
fifteen passengers. -Four Of these sus-
tanned slight bruises In the smoker
and day coach every seat was occupied.
The mail, express and baggage ears
overturned.
The total number OF deaths from the
accident will probably reach as high as
ten; as many have sustained what il is
feared Will prove serious internal in
iuries.
The body OF a tramp was taken out Of
the wreck, making four dead recovered
Firos were built along either side Of
the train TO keep the passengers warm
and to light the way of the workers who
had hastened TO the rescue from this
city and vicinity. Laid out on the ground
were the mangled corpses recovered from
the wreck, reclining on improvised beds
about the fires were the wounded, while
standing about, lending what assist
ance they could, were those less sori-
ously wounded, and around these and
everywhere the crowds who had come
TO help or from curiosity. In the coaches
standing on the fallen trcstlework were
the Same scenes, every available space
being occupied 10y some Unfortunate
one, more or less injured As soon as
the doctors from Salem arrived they set
about dressing wounds and administer
ing to the needs Of the injured.
Tho bridge is about 900 feet long,
and from sixteen TO twenty feet high.
1t is supposed the engineer fcit the
trestle give way as soon as his engine
struck. lie gave one short whistle and
set the breakes. The train moved
ahead about fifty yards as IL went
down.
THE TWO KANSAS VICTIMS.
ELLSWORTH, Kan, Nov. lL-C. NJ.
Burris and Fred Waite. who were in.
iured in the wreck at Salem. Ore, last
night, left here Saturday last TO work
on the extension Of the Union Pacific
in Oregon. Their parents live in this
county within u few miles of this city
south Dakota Democratic.
PIEu.E. : d., Nov. H. Official re