The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-06-28
THE TRAIN WRECK.
C. C. Chase. Tramp, killed, which Is
the Only Fatality.
Telegram

No. l, which was wrecked near Port
land yesterday was pulled by engine No.
548, drawing eight cars. The train ran
into COW lying on thet track. Engineer
Sherman did not notice the animal un-
til too late to stop the train and avert a
disaster. The engine was derailed
about 10 feet beyond where the COW was
struck, and ran for a distance of 12O
feet with the wheels on both sides on
the ties to the left of the rails, when the
wheels on the left side left the track
and ran l30 feet further, where the en-
gine was overturned. The tender kept
to the track for a distance of 20 feet
farther, when it fell to the left of the
track down slight embankment,
one pair of trucks going over with
the tender, while the .other trucks
and the truck frames were thrown
off on the right hand-side of the track
and down steep embankment.
Mail car No. 1859 was attached to the
tender and was thrown down an en-
bankment distance of rs feet to the
right of the track. The only fatality of
the wreck was caused by this car, which
Jared the worst of any. A man, sup
posed to be a tramp, whose name is be-
lieved to be G. G.. Chase, was presum-
ably riding the platform of the mail car,
and when the car was hurled down the
lembankment he was taken with it. He
was picked up at the bottom, lying on
his right side, with the hind trucks of the
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and his neck broken. He was wedged
| in between the trucks and the ground
so that the trainmen were compelled to
dig away the earth underneath to ex-
| tricate him. This car was stopped by
bringing up against huge stump after
the bottom of the embankment had
been reached. The trucks and pieces
were scattered all along the downward
path of the car, the rear trucks being
the only ones remaining under it. The
body of the car is badly damaged,
though neither side nor end is broken in
The mail inside was all right. The front
end of the car plowed into the ground a
depth of about two feet.
George Avery, the fireman, has had a
rather tough experience since he COM
menced his career as railroader. To
reporter he said it was the fifth
time he had been thrown out of his
cab by an accident. He thinks he
is very lucky to have escaped so many
times.
''The first thing I knew" said he,
SO was when 1 was climbing up the
bank. 1 also saw the engineer coming
out of the top of the cab, and then
began to realize that something had oc-
Cured"
Two tramps were stealing ride on
one of the rear cars, but succeeded in
getting out unhurt, though both were
very dirty. After dusting themselves,
they coolly produced couple of cigar
cites and proceeded to light them. One
tramp remarked sarcastically; "This
| is h of way for a railroad cam
pany to treat fellow. 1 believe I'll
sue them for damages Both then
started off down the track, heading for
Portland, just as if nothing unusual had
occurred.
Just as soon as the accident happened
the conductor and the engineer
started to walk to Mount Tabor Villa as
rapidly as they could to report the ac-
cident. They started to go almost i'm
mediately.
Very soon after the accident the
claim agent of the company, who was on
board the train, passed among the pas
sengers to take their names and to ascer-
certain who were hurt and the nature of
the injuries sustained.