Los Cerrillos rustler. (Cerrillos, N.M.) 188?-1891, 1891-05-22
TERRIBLE FATE.
Fearful Plunge OF a Relief Train In
Pennsylvania
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Gissut-ratai ftxht VIA STRIKERS
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train load - -rFeutY-hve willing men
zrut uu' from Austin sunday night
fought bark the forrest FIRE raging In
b urgion by every conceivable means
They made trenches piled up earth and
lghtrd back fires, but were finally
Obliged 10 retreat They hastily board
cd the train and started % make
a run a. another point when
- wa found they were hcmmed
IN hy the forest FIRE on one side and a
huge stidway ~ logs on the other.
o. was finally decided q dash past the
hurniur skidwav. aud the engineer aud
fireman with faces covered with damp
~nrd cloths and hands and arms
wrapped 10 wool, mounted the little
engine and pulled out through the wall
Of tire The scvcnty-hve exhausted
men gathered In groups on the flats for
protection or lay on their faces on the
floor.
A. the blazing furnace Of logs was
approached the neat became unbcar-
able aud the smoke 80 binding and
sitting the men were obliged 20 cover
thcir mouths with cloths Just oppo-
site the millions Of feet Of burning logs,
where the heat and smoke and flame
were the greatest, the engineer, who
lad forgotten that such great heat
would surely spread the rails. pulled
che throttle wider in the hope Of sooner
escaping from a torrent Of heat and
smolSe Then there was a lurch, an
luminous h%caving aud a Shrek and the
train topplcd over
The ears caught fire like 80 much pa
per. and the men within. half blinded
and scarcely realizing anything except
that they were being slowly roasted 90
death, struggled fcarfully 10 regain the
track where safety lay, for a time NJ
least Those uniniurcd from the fall.
sud only smarting from the pain Of the
iut~nsc heat. turned their burned,
hllckrncd hands 20 aid their more I'M
fortunate fellows
~ this hour ii is impossible tp secure
"details, though enough is known Of the
r-ur that followed the hurting uf the
struggling mass of men iu'o the furnace
pf flames Ia say tia like had never uc.
currcd before.
superintendent BADGER. Of the Sin.
ucmahuning Valley road, was in charge
~ the relief train aud had worked tho
hardest Of al 10 save the property Of
others When the train wa, ditched
aud rolled over So suddenly he must
have been injured 50 a to be- unable TO
hcip himself, aud owing TO the smoke
and panic he was not found until too
late Jummcd in the wreck. he had
evidently slowly burned to death.
u Is known that six others also
rui-crahly persisted at once. or died
,puu after. and thirty others of the
party were badly burned, many prob
ably fatally owing to the fears that
they inhaled the flames that seemed TO
eairiy spring into their faces.
Seven others of the party are missing
and their fate is not known, though they
are likely in the charrcd wood of logs
lr train.
FATAL light WITH STRIKERS
DESvER, Col, May IA desperate
fight took place in City park between
r. n Davis and Ed Davis, white, aud
John White. Tom Davis, +. Farris, J.
w Smith and james blackburn, col.
urcd, on one side, and some fifty or
more brickmakiug strikers on the other.
Two men were fatally shot and about
O. wclve more wounded more or less seri-
rTasly. The fight, which was ut close
range, was brought about by the brick
makers strike, which has been in pro-
grrss at the Davis yards for several
eyccks
Yesterday morning L. MSDavis and
son. proprictors of the brick yards,
with eight negroes armed with double
harrclcd shotguns, heavily loaded with
shuckShot, started for the yards with
the nvowcd intention Of beginning
work or dying in the attempt As they
we're nearing the yards a party OF
strikers. headed by Frank Surbcr, app
ncarcd aud asked that they bc allowed
Ia talk to the men who were going to
work. Davis replied that the men did
not want TO talk and ordered the strik-
FRS 90 allow his men to pass.
This the strikers would not do and
Davis and his son and five men opened
fire on the strikers.
Thomas Kelley was shot in the small
~ tlf ualh anu Nlth NNb NtiTN lHitTs
The men most seriously injured are
John Ridcnour, shot in the back, fatally
wounded; Frank Surber. shot in right
arm, ncccssitating amputation. may
iic; Bert Brown, shot in right arm; IS.
Paul, shot in left shoulder; Jack Gar
ret, shot In side. ". j. Shaunte, shot
IN forehead and shoulder; Sam Farrar,
shot in the legs; Pete Nolan, shot in
arm, u. O'Brien and William Dickson.
both shot in the head and side. A
number OF others are known TO have
been hit, but fled from the scene before
their names or the extent Of their in
iurics were learned.
Immediately after the firing began