The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-08-04

DENVER (CoL), Aug. 3.-The fast
flyer ON the Kansas Pacific Railway
was wrecked this morning about forty
miles east of Denver.
Two traimmen We're killed outright
and several passengers badly hurt
| The killed are: John A Ward, en-
gineer, of Denver; w. B. Harrington,
baggageman, of Kansas City.
The special train sent to the scene Of
the accident arrived in Denver at 1870
p m With the dead and injured.
The injured are: Oscar Ingram, fire.
man, bruised about the head, dazed;
w. H. Rankin, driver, bruised and cut
| about the head, arm broken; J. E. Reid,
back injured; Mrs. Fred Nash, Laramie,
Wyo., back sprained: Mrs. C. E. Gavett,
Blue Springs, Neb., right ankle broken;
Mrs. G. L. Hubbard Abilene, Kas., back
hurt w. H. B. Thornton, Chicago, arm
sprained and bruised; L. Eckert, Seat
tie, Wash, head cut; Miss Minnie Ed
elmonn, bruises; c. E. Goddard, Leav-
| enwOrth, Kas., back hurt.
The wreck was caused by a washout.
The heavy rains of the night flooded
the streams and carried out a portion
of a small bridge which spans Co
manche Creek between Byers and
Strasburg. The train was on time and
was running along at the usual rate of
speed when approaching the point of
the accident. Without warning the en-
CINE plunged into the abyss, followed
by the mail and baggage cars and two
| coaches. Both PuIlmanS remained on
the track, but the chair car was tipped
up ON end in the creek.
The engine was completely under
water in almost the middle of the
stream and Engineer Ward was under
it. Oscar E. Ingram, the fireman, es-
capped death, but he is reported to be
badly hurt.
Instantly there was the widest con-
fusion. The injured passengers We're
riding in the forward car. Some of the
sleeping passengers in the Pullmans
were thrown from their berths and
more or less hurt, but none seriously.
Byers, the nearest town to- the wreck,
was five miles away, and the conductor
FASTENED to cover the distance on foot.
He arrived there at ; o'clock and noti-
fled the officials in Denver by tele-
graph. A special wrecking train, with
General Manager Deul and other Off
Gals and physicians on board, started
for the scene of the wreck.
Meantime everything possible was be-
ing done for the wounded at the wreck.
But little additional information could
be obtained after the first reports, oW-
ing to the distance of the wreck from
any telegraph office
Engineer Ward was one of the best To-
connective drivers in the city The
wrecked train was due in Denver at
4:03
All the seriously injured were taken
to st. Joseph's Hospital in this city.
Rankin and Reid are mail clerks. They
were shot up through the roof OF the
mail car. which was split asunder when
the crash came and, cut and bleeding,
made their way to the bank.
T. Eckert of Topeka was in the chair
car asleep when the accident occurred
When the car plunged headlong into
the creek he was thrown into an up
right position, and from this down onto
his face in the aisle. AS he fell he
struck his forehead on the chair in
front of him, making am ugly cash
under his left eye and on his temple.
His chair was thrown forward against
the chair in front, pinning the arm Of
Miss Edelmonn between the two.
Mr.. Eckert says that a crowbar had
to be used to separate the two seats
far enough to enable the woman to eX-
tricate her arm. She was I'M the water
up to her neck. AS soon as she was re-
moved from her perilous position under
the water all of the passengers were
taken out through the upper door and
landed i'm safety on the ground.
Eckert was en- route to Seattle, whence
he intended to go to the Klondyke.
S1nerin+endent Duel SAYS the cause
Of the accident was the washing away
of forty feet of the bridge over the
creek near StTasburg.