The record-union., 1897-07-29
TRAIN WRECKED NEAR VERDI.
SIX INDIANS WE'RE CRUSHED
TO DEATH.
None of the Passengers Nor Train
Hands Were Seriously
Injured.

one OF those unfortunate railroad ac-
cidentS for which no one is responsible
happened about mile east of Verdi,
New, at III O'Clock yesterday morning.
The west bound overland express
train, No ,, due in Sacramento at $40
o'clock p. M, was bowling along up
the grade at the usual rate of speed,
drawn by two engines-or what in rail-
! road parlance is known as a double
header'-when the rear engine left the
rails, and topping over to the left side
of the track rolled down the eight-foot
embankment. The tender was erratic,
and instead of following its engine
rolled into the cut on the right side
of the track.
The mail and express car, the bag
gage car, the day coach, the smoking
car, two tourist cars and two Pullman
sleeping cars We're derailed, the first
four being turned over, and when the
dust settled the wheels of the mail
car were turned heavenward
The forward locomotive remained on
the rails, and just why the second one
left the rails has not been determined.
A number OF Indians We're riding on
the platform of the mail and baggage
cars and When the accident happened
they occupied the posts of danger. They
had no chance for their lives, and the
result was that six We're killed outright
and another seriously injured. Several
other Indians received severe bruises.
They We're exercising the right given
them to ride free
1t seems miraculous that nobody else
was even seriously injured Engineer
Irwin was thrown from his engine. but
escaped with few unimportant
bruises.
u. +. Rollins, the fireman, received a
cut on the head and a confusion on the
neck, but was walking about the wreck
few hours afterward, and is not Sc
riously hurt.
The boys in the mail car were sadly
mixed up with the mail bags, but luck
lily escaped with a few scratches. and
the bagga ge-master was thrown
among his load of trunks and received
a severe shaking up
While the damage to the rolling stock
is considerable, everything can be cas-
lily repaired.
Wrecking trains were Immediately
sent out from Wadsworth and Reno.
and at o'clock last evening the track
was cleared. The passengers. mail and
baggage We're transferred to other cars.
and the train was due in Sacramento at
o'clock this morning. The list of the
injured is as follows:
G. F. Rollins, fireman, head cut and
neck confused
). A. Ross, mail clerk in postal car,
scalp wound and shoulder hurt.
j. w. O'Brien, mail clerk, shoulder
and back bruised.
j. j. Burke, baggage master, right
leg bruised.
M. Banner of 571 Market street. San
Francisco, head cut
j. S. Stanberger. il Sutter street. San
Francisco, back bruised.
B. N. Livington, San Jose wrist
sprained.
Charles Glass, East Cambridge,
Mass, leg bruised.
FREIGHT CARS DERAILED.
AT O'Clock in the afternoon freight
train, No 20, bound west met with an
accident one and one-half miles east
of Cape Horn Mills Station, and about
five miles east of Colfax.
freight car next behind the tender
left the rail while the train was NOV
ing along at regulation speed, and top
ping over rolled down the one hun
dred-foot embankment, dragging the
four following cars after it.
The locomotive and three other cars
were also dragged from the rails, but
remained on the roadbed
The front brakeman, w. H. Crofton.
was on top of one of the cars that
went over the grade, and when it
started on its wild career he made a
flying leap and landed in the gravel, es-
Gaping with a few scratches and sore
spots, but no broken bones.
Assistant Division Superintendent
Jones visited the scene of the accident
with the wrecking train, and at IL
o'clock last night the track was
cleared. The damage to rolling stock
was nominal