The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-11-21
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
Shocking Railroad Accident Near Salem.
Ore.-several Persons Killed and Many
Injured.

| Shocking Railroad Accident Near Salem.
Ore.-several Persons Killed and Many
Injured.
SALEM Ore, Nov. 1A-Shortly after
$50 o'clock last night the overland
Southern Pacific passenger train, south
bound, went through the north end Of a
| long trestle over Lake Labish, about
five miles from here.
The trestle must have given away as
soon as the engine struck it and the
gether. The engine was overturned and
half buried in the. mud, and following
this were the tender, mail, baggage and
express cars, smoking car and tourist
sleeper. All were torn to pieces.
Engineer John McFadden, Fireman
Tim Neal and an unknown man were
killed. The following were injured:
Captain Jack Crawford, the poet
scout bruised.
Samuel Arson, Of New York City,
side and back sprained.
Mrs T. c. Boyle, May and Nellie
Boyle, of Missoula Mont
Wilson Berry. of North Dakota, in
jured about the throat.
C NJ. Burris of Ellsworth, Kan, back
sprained
Fred Waite, of Ellsworth, Kan,
sprained, and it is thought received
internal injuries.
DR.. Hammel and wife, of Philadel-
phia, both injured about the spine.
They were returning from trip around
the world.
C. Griebel, traveller for the Val
Blatz Brewing Company, of Milwaukee.
6. G. NewhalL, of Pleasant Forks,
Canada painfully injured about the
throat
James McGarrv. United States mar
shall of Salt Lake, U. T., nose broken,
leg probably broken and badly injured
internally. 1t is feared he will die.
The train carried over 100 persons,
nearly all of whom were more or less
injured.
The first-class day coach was saved
from going over, alighting with the
front end on an old tree broken off
about even with the trestle. The seats
and the partitions in the car were
broken into kindling 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 number only three
were injured. The next was the Pull
man Alfalfa" with seventeen passen-
gers, and only three escaped without
injury. The next and last car was the
Pullman "Roseburg," in which were
fifteen passengers. Four Of these sus-
tanned slight bruises In the smoker
and day coach every seat was occupied.
The mail, express and baggage cars
overturned.
accident will probably reach as high as
ten; as many have sustained what it is
feared will prove serious internal in
iuries.
The body Of tramp was taken out OF
the wreck, making four dead recovered.
Fires were built along either side of
the train to keep the passengers warm
and to light the way of the workers who
had FASTENED 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 seri
ously wounded, and around these and
everywhere the crowds who had come
to help or from curiosity. In the coaches
standing on the fallen trestlework were
the same scenes, every available space
being occupied by 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.
The bridge is about 600 feet long,
and from sixteen to twenty feet high.
1t is supposed the engineer felt the
trestle give way as soon as his engine
struck. He gave one short whistle and
set the breakes. The train moved
ahead about fifty yards as it went
down.
THE TWO KANSAS VICTIMS.
ELLSWORTH. Kan, Nov. &c NJ.
Burris and Fred Waite, who were in
jured 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 few miles of this city.