Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-06
TERRIBLE R. R. ACCIDENT.
Ten Killed and Seventeen In.
jured.
THE DROWNING OF MISS BOISE.
Lunatics Escape, The G, A. RS, Pal
mer Gets There, An Elopement,
Returns from fhe Dead, A Three
Cornered Duel, Foreign and
State News, etc.
RAILROAD AccIpENT.


RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
SYRACUSE, N. ", Aug. 6.-Thi
morning a freight tram on the Wes
Shore railroad going west brOk'
Into between Port Byron and Mon
tpzuma and the fast train following
crushed into rear parts. A brake
man and ten Italians enroute to nj
lgara Falls in the smoking ca
we're killed and seventeen others il
he same ear were injured. Some o
hem will probably die. The sleep
ng cars burned and it Is supposed
iearly all the passengers were res
.ucd. The injured were brought
aere aud are being cared for
Among the iDjured was a member
If AN opera company who died or
his way here. Trainmen say more
are killed in the wreck. Physicians
and others have been sent from Syr
,cuse to Auburn, Montezuma and
Port Byron. The scene at the
wreck is a terrible one Twelve
freight cars were completely demol
shed and hardly a whole piece OF
rimher left in the smoking car ib
which Italians were. The wreck
took fire and the passenger train
burned with the exception of three
stepping cars. None of the passen-
gers in the sleeping cars were
injured.
1wO Of the injured have since
died making the number of fatal
ties twelve. There is no doubt
the accident is the result Of the neg
Iect of the conductor of the freight
train to send back IA fiagman.
MORE DETAILS or THE DROWNING
OF MISS BOISE.
ASTORIA Aug. 6.-Gloom wa'
cast over Long Beach on the Wash
ington shore about 1890 yesterday
afternoon, when Miss Nellie Boise
of North Salem, and William Steele
of Portland, were drowned In The
surf. The distressing accident hap
pened in front of Stouts hotel, and
more than twenty persons saw the
two young people swept out to
watery grave. A huge wave, at
tended by IA fearful undertow, swept
the party of bathers into a deep
water hole, and, before the undertow
subsidized, the unfortunate young
people had worn themselves out In
struggling against 1t. There was
about twenty of the party together,
among them being win steele, Mel
lie Boise, Berbert Nichols, b. Nc
Farland, Geo. Myers, Balfe johnson,
Ben Lombard, l.. Shepard, Merle
Johnson, Mrs. Hawthorn, Mrs. My
ers, and others. Geo. Myers was
farther down the beach than the
Others, and was the first to feel the
irresistible pressure Of the undertow
as IL swept him off his feet. He
shouted to those farther up and mo-
toned them to go To shore. They
all started, but the treacherous wave
almost Immediately overlook them
and lifted them OIL their feet. Some
of the young men were farther Out
than the ladies, and when the un'
dertow caught them 1t swept the
ladies past them. All were very
much excited, aud Miss Boise tainted
In the arms Of her escort, Ben Lom.
bard. He was a good swimmer, and
made herculean efforts to reach a
safe footing with her, and would un-
doubtedly have succeeded had not a
second wave torn her from his
grasp and she sank to rise no more,
Lombard tried In vain TO reach her
again, but could not, and In an ex-
hausted condition he was dragged
on the beach, Steele, who was n
trllle farther out than Miss Boise
and Lombard, was seen ON the crest
of wave after the deadly under
tlw had partially subsidized, but was
apparently too weak to help him
self, aud before assistance could
reach him, he too had perlshed.
The true cause Of the accident is
probably best explained In the ac'
count of an experienced surf bather,
who was Ia the water near the scene
of the accident. He says; al had
Just come well In, after being far out
IA the breakers, and was In water a
little more than waist deep. sud
denly | heard an outcry below nee,
aud saw an immense wave, followed
a moment later by another The
surf was coming from the south
ward, aud when the wave and un'
dertow struck me Il almost knocked
me of my feet. In fact Il was the
heaviest undertew had ever exper
lenced, although have been bath
ing for ten years on this beach,
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