The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-07-31
THE WRECK.


The Gazette says when No. Wednes-
day morning got to what is known as
ITwrnty-tive-mile hill, about half IL mile
west OF Lauahton's Springs, the rails
seemed to spread and throw Engine 1915
down the embankment, bottom SHE up,
AMI turned the tender eni to end, ana
lifting it bodily from the rails, deposited
it on the north side OF the track.
Engine 1925 (for the train was double
heaier), which was in front, passed over
all right. Engineer John Wright and
Fireman Harvey were IN this engine.
Engine 1925 ran to Verdi with DIR.
Stnbbs, President of the State Univer-
sity, who was a passenger en- route IRON
the east to San Francisco, and h" wired
an ac,ount of the wreck TO San FRAN
cis,,o AMI Reno.
/ Drs. Thona AMI Gibson went from
Reno, DR.. Jackman from Wadsworth,
Drs. Shoemaker and Mclntire from
Trurkee.
When rwentv- lily e-mile Till W IS reach
| ed the Scent, presented btgsars deserip-
ton. Engine 1873 was found II shape
Iess wreck. turned over, abont six feet
4 ,wn the embanklnent, and the tender
turne end for end on the opposite side
OF the track. THE mail, express and
...,, t,r,nl ou.p and fully
ten feet from where the track hal been.
Following these ears was the day coach
lying on its side horizontal with the track
IN about six feet away Alongside OF
the the day coach was a Pullman sleep
er. stove in. which presented n pitiful
sight. Following the sleeper was n din
ing car tilted upto an angle Of about A.
~legrees, with nearly every dish in the
car broken. Then came two more sleep
ers badly stove in and off the track, but
not so badly damaged as the other cars.
Two sleeiers on the tail end of the train
lid not leave the track, and were
brought back to Reno.
Engineer Irving of 1918 was slightly
injured in the back, and his fireman,
Rollins, both Of Sacramento, was cut
about the head and face. but their injur-
les are not thought to be serious or per-
manent
Fifteen Indians on the blind baggage,
en- route to s .cram-nto. were not SO for
%tnnatp. however, for six Of them were
killed outright, several were badly and
two fatally injured.
The In lians on the blind baggage
were terribly msngleti. One woman had
her entrails scattered on both sides of
the track. Dismemb ere,l legs and arms
we're part of the w~reckase. The wound
Ell was brought to Reno early in the
afternoon in Il cahoose and will he given
medical attendance"
Sh4 riff M.Inni+ picked up a baby girl
pspoose that hal evid IN ly been thrown
clear OF the train by her mother when
size saw what was coming. The Sheriff
look the little one to Reno. She was
not injured and was given over to rela-
tives.
The wreck WAY ca;isei BY sopethlng
wrong with the track probably n spread
ing of the rai's, aad is the most COM
plete on record as far as the destruction
of the rolling stock is concerned, but,
fortunately, not in loss of life.
The mail and express car was turned
bottom side up, the day coach and one
sleeper were throxn at right angles to
the track, aud the dining car and two
Pullman coaches were badly wrecked,
only TIVE cars remaining OF the track.
The waiting of the Indians. who had
their dead anl wounded under the will
lows, las the trark, was hrart-render-
ing. They were on their way ~ Sac
| ranento to pick hops.
Miss Gale went into Mysteries bat was
| quieted. Mrs. Gill stood up and put her
arms around Ora and waited. They
were thrown around considerably but
escaped uniiurt. 1t was the longest few
secon Is they ever experienced.
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