The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-24
INJURED IN A WRECK.
a Collision on the Great North
ern at INTERPLAY.
TWELVE CARS IN THE BAY,
Fireman Montgomery aad Car Rerairer
fsmpkins Thrown Frems the
Trestle-BIunder Somewhere.

"A serious railroad wreck occurred last
night about o'clock at she crossing Of
the Great Northern and Seattle. Lake
SHORE q Eastern tracks this side Of IN
iercay, BY which two men were injured
! and y cars dumped into the bay.
Great Northern engine No. fs9 ran into
a train Of cars which we're being
switched BY Lake Shore engine No. 8.
I Twelve box and fiat cars were thrown
of the track and rolled down an en-
bankEnent into the bay. The Great
Northern engine had the water tank OF
the tender torn off and X went over the
enloaakment. Fireman a. II. Mon gem
cry OF the Great Northern and Car Re
pairer c. H. TonpkiRs who was going
home on the engine. were badly hurt.
bur neither probably fatally.
Engineer Mike Cooper remained az his
lever and came ont without a scratch.
Car Repairer Tompkins swent over the
crnbankment with the water tank. and
his escape from instant death was mir
acIloGs
Montgomery is the worst hurt. his In
juries being internal from being thrown
across some object. he was picked up
lying on the trestle near his engine.
were removed to INTERPLAY and DIR. Smith
the company's surgeon called.
The Great Northern engine is tire one
watch had just before pulled i'm the $50
coast line Passenger and * was being
run backwards TO the stalls at INTERPLAY.
The wreck Occurred at what is known
as the Lake Shore switching field Coop
er OF the Great Northern stopped his en-
CINE and whistled. so the train men say,
a short distance this side Of the cross
ing, then he went ahead and went bang
into the freight train. nos seeing it. SO
they say, until the engine was within a
few feet of it,
the Lake Shore crew were just in the
act of cutting in two and clearing the
road, the swHchmian giving the signal
10 the engineer to ease back a little. The
darkness and the absence OF a head light
on the Great Northern englfe prevented
them from observing its approach. The
first the engineer knew of the accident
Was when he saw his flremaa's lamp
whiri into the air. Immediately followed
by the shock al his end of the train. He
at once reversed and drew back the cars
nearest the engine. The fireman on the
Lake Shore just escaped being carried
over in the wreck
The tracks cross at an acute angle and
as soon as the reat Northern engine ran
into the train the momentum upset enc
car ans then one after anosher were
turned over and went off the trestIe and
down the embankment pulled over by the
force of the fall OF each preceding ear.
some of the cars wehv over after the
Great Northern engine had been brought
10 a standstiil. One fiat car was thrown
at right angles across the track and
crews from both the Great Nor hern and
Lake Shore worked with wrecklng trains
Kill about II o'clock before they cleared
the track.
In the darkness il was impossible TO tell
just how badly the cars are wrecked.
Some rolled over once or twice in their
fall and some broke Cd at the trucks.
leaving the latter ON the rails.
DIR. Smith. the surgeon. could not tell
last night the extent Of Montgomery's in
juTfes. They are internal and the man was
put to sleep with opiates until this morn
ing. He has no broken ZONES nor serious
external wounds. Tompkins was scratched
about the face and one foot hurt. His in
juries are internal, but are not thought 10
be very serious.