Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-10-07
A TRAIN ACCIDENT.
Two Persons Killed and Others Injured
at Cotopaxi, Col.
Two Women aud Five Children Burned tn
Death at Beausejour, MAMA Fatal
Fire "A Steamer Strikes a snag-
Freight Trains Collide.

PUEBLO, Col, Oct. 4.-one person
killed outright, one so injured that he
died soon after the accident and many
others more or less injured is the re-
suit of wreck on the Denver & Rio
Grande, narrow gauge, at CotopaXi, ~
miles west of Pueblo, aG two o'clock
yesterday morning, caused by the
breaking of a journal on one of the
coaches. The train was the first Sec
ton of No. 6, from over Marshall pass,
and was slowing down to take the
siding at Cotopaxi. While running at
ten miles an hour journal on the rear
trucks of the first day coach broke.
The car pitched over on its side and
dragged with it all the cars behind,
another coach, two sleepers and the
company's pay car. Three tourist
coaches, the baggage car and engine,
all ahead of the first coach, remained
,on the track The cars were all crowd
led with excursionists bound to the
Festival of Mountain and Plain at
Denver There was little excitement
and not much wreckage, as the train
was running very slowly. Immedi-
ately after the accident relief train
with surgeons was sent out from Sa-
Ida and all were promptly given at
tention.
MUCH DAMAGE BY PRAIRIE FIRES.
WINNIPEG, Man, Oct. 4.-The prairie
fires which ragged all over the country
Saturday being famed and driven by
IA gale of wind, died out during the
night and Sunday mornings sun
,dawned upon terrible scene of death
and devastation, farm houses, imple-
mcnts, crops and live st$ek everywhere
being consumed and many farmers lost
their all most lamentable story
comes from Beausejour, 40 miles east
of this city, where two women and five
children named Moreski were burned
to death. Fire came upon their house,
which was in the woods, from two di-
rections simultaneously and shut off
all means of escape. Only a few
,charred remains were found yesterday
morning. There were many narrow
escapes, carcasses of horses, cattle and
sheep are lying all over the district
and number of families of foreigners
homeless and utterly destitute. At
Bagot, 70 miles west, the Canadian
Pacific railroad station and seven cars,
the Dominion Grain Co. IS elevator, with
200 bushels of wheat, Lawrie's store,
Higginbotham's, Link g. Buchanan's
stables, cold storage warehouse and
farmer Waldron's farm buildings and
crops we've totally destroyed, The
little town was practically wiped out
Of existence. Reports from Stony
Mountain and other places tell of
much damage sustained by farmers
and others.
FATAL FIRE.
EAST LONG MEADOW, Mass, Oct. A.
Three lives were lost early yesterday
;morning by the burning of a dwelling
house in the center of this place. The
home of George Brownlee caught fire
from chimney. Mrs. Brownlee, her
two sons, Thomas, aged 81, and James,
aged 10, escaped in their night robes,
but Mrs Brownlee and her son Thomas
were few minutes later burned in
the building, their bodies being buried
an the ruins. Mrs. Brownlee rushed
back into the house, thinking her sons
had not come out. Thomas rushed
after her to save her, and James after
Thomas. The mother and elder son
were overcome, while James got out,
but was burned so severely that he
died in the afternoon. Mr.. Brownlee
himself was badly burned on the
hands and feet. The bodies of the
victims were recovered.
A STEAMER STRIKES A sNAG.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct 4.-The steam
.er Rowena Lee, bound north from
Friar's Point, Miss, struck snag near
Moons Landing yesterday morning at
nine o'clock and sank in IL feet of
water. The crew and passengers wege
taken off by the j. N. Hardin. The
boats cargo consisted of 300 bales of
cotton, rs of which foated down the
river. 1t is thought the boat can be
raised.
FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE.
CLEVELAND, O., Oct. An freight
collision on the Nickel Plate railroad
at Willoughby, o., yesterday, Engineer
Charles Brown, of Bellevue, was killed,
and seven cars loaded with grain and
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