The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-11-03

| that the % ran into coach IN the e1-
cursion train, which was standing
broadside toward it. The check valve
| on the % was broken off, allowing the
| contents of the boiler Of the % to es-
| cape into the coach. Eleven persons
| we're cooked to death, and number
were badly injured.
Three years elapsed before the next
victim was claimed. In March, 1894,
while No. % was running between
Basalt and Aspen, Fireman Lawton
fell off the running board while wip-
ing the jacket and was killed.
In August Of the same year No.'22
ran into pile of rocks which had fall
len on the track seven miles west OF
Buena Vista and was thrown from the
track. While jacking the engine back
on the track Lee West, one of the
wrecking crew, had occasion to go un-
der the engine. The jack broke, and
West was crushed so that he died soon
after.
Again three years elapsed before
No. % had another mishap. This
was to be the dreadful accident at
New Castle, in which sixteen persons
were killed outright These, with the
twenty lives previously crushed out
by No %, brought its bloody record
up to thirty-six.
d. and R. G.. engine No. 5O6, which
was in the Rio Grande- Midland wreck,
was also a man-killer. Several tramps
had been killed by this engine. No.
500 killed an engineer and fireman
May 2s, 1897, at Cabeza, Col. A
freight train had gone in the siding
for No. 4 to pass, and the fagman left
the switch open. Dashing around the
curve at full speed, No. sos ran on to
the switch and crashed into the other
train. The engineer, Jchn West, and
his fireman, Dunahay, were instantly
killed. The engineer and fireman OF
the freight train and many Of the pas
sengers on No. were badly hurt.
Besides these wrecks the engine was
unfortunate in smaller way, fire.
quently breaking parts Of the mechan-
ism and being compelled to 60 to the
shops for repairs.
While Nc. 500 had been looked upon
as one of the "Jonahs" of the road:
the most ill-fated engine the Rio
Grande has ever had is old No. lO7,
now in the boneyard in West Denver.
This engine has killed seven en-
ployees Of the road and tramp or
two. It's first wreck was about ten
years ago at Roubideau bridge. The
engine went through the bridge, and
the engineer and two fremen were
killed. The engineers name was
William Duncan, and a fireman who
was "dead-heading' over the road,
named Josh Quigley, was also killed.
The name Of the regular fireman had
been forgotten.
The second wreck was few months
later at Escalanta, when large boul-
der rolled down the mountain on to
track. This time the engine was bad
ly wrecked, the engineer and fireman
killed, and several passengers hurt.
Not six months after the second ac-
cident engine No. 1O7 ran into land
| slide at Black Canyon, and was again
wrecked. The engineer anu fireman
were both killed almost instantly.
After being taken to the shops and
repaired the officials thought they
would have better luck if the engine
were transferred to another part of the
road, and sent it to the Rio Grande
Western. Here it was run for num-
Der of years, but something was almost
constantly wrong with the mechanism
or it would "die" out on the road, de-
laying tl4in many hours, so it was
finally sent back to Denver and rele-
gated to the "boneyard," where it is
now standing. Several other wrecks
of No. 1O7 are recalled by some of the
old employees, in one of which an en-
gineer was MANNED for life and several
others badly injured.-Chicago Inter-
| Ocean.
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