The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-10-11
A Most Peculiar Accident, and Miraculous Escape of Pas
 sengerS and Crew.
Bull on the Track, Train off the Track and Panic-StriclSen en People--Some of the Scenes and Incidents of Rail .. road Accident.

| last Sunday, was most disastrous one, considering the apparently trivial cause. That common ordinary brindle bull, running before rapidly moving train of cars, could derail half the string of coaches and smash the engine into smithereeu seems almost miraculous, yet such was the case And the most wonderful part of it all is that no one was seriously injured.
 The train had left Dennlson station about two miles behind and was thun- dering along to make up lost time, when Engineer William Daze deserted q herd of cattle near the line. At the approach of the locomotive all seam pered away across the plains except one ornery bull, who must surely have been graduate of the Mexican pull arena. When he disputed the rIght of way the engineer opened the throttle wide, with the idea of tossing his bull ship to one side. The result to the bull was fatal, but he succeed in wreaking terrible revenge before joining the multitude of bulls that have gone before. Just how it happened will probably never be known, but the experience of SUN man who hap pened to be in the smoker was prob ably not very different from that of many others. The smoker was pre- ceded by the mail, baggage and ex- press cars and it followed them when they jumped the rails. When the smoker began to dance along the ties the usual panic eusued The concus- sion jambed the rear door so tight that it would not open, but the Mexican passengers weren't looking for doors. Several of them leaped through the open windows as if shot out of eau non and scooted across the sandy waste as though the Evil One were after them. Of course the women screamed and wrung their hands, but their cries were drowned in the roar and hiss of escaping steam and when the male passengers rushed to where the engine should have been, it was out of sight so to speak. Nothing was diScernable except a great cloud of steam, which threw shower of spray upon those who ventured near. The idea that the unfortunate engineer and fireman might be slowly roasting to death be- heath the debris did not prevent some phases of nature from asserting them selves. A well.dresscd woman stood upon the platform of one of the Pull mans and in agoniziug tones cried "Oh. please save my dog. For Gods sake save my poor doggie. He's in the baggage cah." Her appeals were unheeded except by one big man. who had more honest buntness than gal Iantry in his makeup. He simply said
 "D-n your dawg!" and rushed to the rescue of the imprisoned engine men. When the steam had exhausted itself q strange sight was revealed. The en- I
 zine was practically q complete wreck and parts of it were strewn all over the face of nature. The cab was in- verted, and near it lay Engineer Daze and Fireman William Brock. Brock crawlrd out from the splinters as if just awakening from dream, but the engineer sat there moaning from the pain of severe wrench in the back. His fingers were crushed and bleeding and his full black beard had turned to dirty yellow from the singeing it had received. Both the engineer and fire man were enveloped in dress of damp sand, and later in the day they were taken to their home in WInslow on the handcar. They each asserted to TIE SUN man that the animal was running before the engine, and that the rate of speed was about forty miles an hour. When the engine struck the pugnaciOus bull they said she seemed to jump in the air and swerve from right to left, until she broke from the mail car and went blowing through the sand, finally topplipg over on her side. The mail car shot forward without any trucks and fell upon the bank like a dismantled ship. The mail clerk, A. II. UIm, had d thrilling experience. A brakeman yelled at the door to know if he were dead or alive.
 "'m all right" said Ulm. "Chop me out. Here's an ax," and he