The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-15
TERRIBLE FATE.
Fearful Plunge OF a Relief Train In
Pennsylvania
The Disaster Caused BY Forest FIrss-Traia
wrecked aud Many Roasted Victims the
ResaIt-FataI Fight with strIlZors
at Denver.
PLUSeED INTO A FURNACE.

fought back the forest FIRE raging in
the region by every conceivable means
They made trenches, piled up earth and
lighted back fires, but were finally
obliged to retreat They hastily board
ed the train and started TO make
a run TO another point when
it was found they were hemmed
in by the forest fire on one side and a
huge slsidway of logs on the other
It was finally decided to dash past the
burning sl1idway, and the engineer and
fireman with faces covered with damp
ened cloths and hands and arms
wrapped in wool, mounted the little
engine and pulled out through the wall
of fire. The seventy-five exhausted
men gathered in groups on the fats for
protection or lay on their faces on the
floor.
AS the blazing furnace of logs was
approached the heat became unbear-
able and the smoke so binding and
sitting the men were obliged to cover
their mouths with cloths. just OPpO-
site the millions of feet of burning logs,
where the heat and smoke and fame
were the greatest, the engineer, who
had forgotten that such great heat
would surely spread the rails, pulled
the throttle wider in the hope of sooner
escaping from a torrent of heat and
smoke. Then there was a lurch, an
OminOus heaving and shrek and the
train tOppled over
The cars caught fire like so much pa
per, and the men within, half blinded
and scarcely realizing anything except
that they were being slowly roasted to
death, struggled fearfully to regain the
track where safety lay, for time at
least. Those uniniured from the fall,
and only smarting from the pain of the
intense heat, turned their burned,
blacleened hands to aid their more UNI
fortunate fellows.
At this hour it is impossible to secure
details, though enough is known of the
scene that followed the hurting of the
struggling mass of men into the furnace
of flames to say its like had never Oc-
Cured before.
Superintendent Badger, of the Sin
nemahOning Valley road, was in charge
of the relief train and had worked the
hardest Of all to save the property Of
others When the train was ditched
and rolled over so suddenly he must
have been injured so as to be unable to
help himself, and owing to the smoke
and panic he was not found until too
late. damned in the wreck, he had
evidently slowly burned to death.
It is known that six others also
miserably persisted at once, or died
soon 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
fairly spring into their faces.
Seven others of the party are missing
and their fate is not known, though they
are likely in the charred wood of logs
or train.
FATAL FIGHT WITH STRIKERS.
DENVER, Col, May IA desperate
fight took place in City park between
+. n. Davis and Ed Davis, white. and
John White, Tom Davis, F. Farris, J..
w. Smith and James Blackburn, col
Ored, on one side, and some fifty or
more briclSmalIing strikers on the other
Two men were fatally shot and about
twelve more wounded more or less seri-
Ously. The fight, which was at close
range, was brought about by the brick
makers strike, which has been in pro-
gress at the Davis yards for several
weeks.
Yesterday morning f. Nj. Davis and
son, proPrietOrs of the brick yards,
with eight negroes armed with double
barreled shotguns, heavily loaded with
buclSshOt, started for the yards with
the svOwed intention Of beginning
work or dying in the attempt. As they
were nearing the yards a party of
strikers, headed by Frank Surber, ap-
peared and asked that they be allowed
TO talk to the men who were going to
work Davis replied that the men did
not want to talk and ordered the strilz-
ers to allow his men to pass.
This the strikers would not do and
Davis snd his son and five men opened
fire on the strikers
Thomas Kelley was shot in the small
of the back and died two hours later.
The men most seriously injured are
John RidenOur. shot in the back, fatally
wounded; Frank Surber, shot in right
arm. necessitating ampUtatiOn- may
die; Bert Brown, shot In right arm; =.
Paul, shot in left shoulder; Jack Gar
ret, shot in side; W. J. Shaunte, shot
in forehead and shoulder: Sam Farrar,
shot In the legs; Pete Nolan. shot in
arm; b O'Brien and William Dickson,
both shot in the head and side A
mum her Of others are known to have
been hit, bat He'd from the scene before
their names or the extent of their in
juries were learned.
Immediately after the firing began
the strikers ran except those who were
too badly hurt TO get away, and Davis