, 1897-10-29
ENCAMPMENT WRECK.
FOOLISH STAGE DRIVER BRINGS
A COLORADO PARTY TO
MUCH GRIEF.
Wanted TO Show OF His Wild West
Ways and Was Not EQual to the
Occasion-Some Were Dangerously
Injured and All Suffered More or
Less-Caring for the Wounded.


Grand Encampmen;, Wyo., Oct. 26.-
\ disastrous stage accident occurred on
the plains easi OF here this afternoon,
in Which Is people were more or less
seriously injured. The Encampment.
Raw.ins Stage, having Is passengers,
and drawn by six galloping horses. was
upset in rounding a curve, three miles
from the new mining town * Grand En-,
campment, and as Il result three men
are now lying at the Wosf hotel. at Sar,
atcga, at che poin; Of death. and a doz>
en- more have had TO SUMMON medical
aid FOR the injuries received.
Eleven O; the victims are from Colo.
raio Springs and Grippe Creek. and
are leading fights in Colorado mining
circles. The following is a list OF thu
injured:
Thomas Saunders. foreman in the city
engineering department d: the Grand
Encampmen1 Town company. head
crushed and arm and LEG broken, not
expected 10 ecover; Charles Cumming.
driver, head and shoulders crushed and
mangled under The stage. Injuries
Thought TO he fatal. Captain Charles
O'Ccnnell. OF the Grand Encampment
Town company, severe spinal injuries:
Ballard, Of the firm OF Tucker, Ballard
4 Co., stock brokers. Colorado Springs,
internal injuries, not considered fatal;
Judge Dayid N. Heller. Colorado
Springs. shoulder dislbcated. Major o.
5. Alers, capitalist, Providence, R. l..
foot crushed. w. w. Kirby, miner and
stock broker. Cripple Creek. leg sprain-
ed: w. F. Rock. capitalist, Cripple
Creek, head and neck slighely bruised;
J. p. Murray, Of Midland Sample Works.
Cripple Creek. severely bruised in neck
and shoulders: J. S. Luckcraft. mining
engineer. Cripple Creek. shoulder blade
fractured: w. w. McGiN. Cleveland, O.,
representing 4 syndicate Of Cleveland
horses, badly bruised, hat not seriously
Injured: j. r. Pearce, mining expert,
Cripple Creek. hand bruised; w. c.
Henry, mining broker. Cripple Creek,
ankle sprained and foot crushed: Geo.
kuntzman, real estate agent. Dubuque,
iowa, hand broken; J Cseph Rankin,
Rawiins. Wye, slight internal injuries.
The accident that wrought such gen.
eral havoc occurred at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, and has converted the little
mining camp into a hospital. Medical
toga and other neighboring points, and
three OF the more seriously injured were
taken to Saratoga in a hastily prepared
ambulance wagon, where they will re-
main under the charge of DR.. H. A.
Abbott. Messengers have been dis
patched to Fort Steele, the nearest tele-
graph station. 48 miles distant, and the
relatives o' the injured will be notified
at once. Nurses, from a colony OF
.Dunkards. three and a half miles east
o' here, lave already reached the camp,
and every effort is being made to allie
viate the suffering.
The wrecked Stage left the new town
at s o'ciusk CHS morning. on a % u OF
inspection OF Wyoming's newly dlscov-
cred gold fields. Three pilots, able pio-
neers Of western Wyoming. accompa>
liei the visitors on the trip. to insure
a safe return from the uninhabited wilds
az the Wyoming foot hills ca the Con-
t~inental range Of the Sierra Madre
mountains. Two Of these pilots were on
Horseback, n was intrus;ed with the
reins OF the stage horses. The latter,
Mr.. Cumming. alias South Paw" has
Cor nearly a generation borne the repr~
tation O. being the most expert stage
driver In the west. During the early
wild stage horses. and with the famous
Indian fighter, made two tours of the
continenc with the Wild West show.
The other guides were James Rankin,
%ex-sherif OF Carbon county. who has
to his credit the capture OF more des>
perate characters than any other sher-
if in the state, and "Alkali Ike" made
famous by Bill Nye in his Forty Liars
and Other Lies
After a heavy drive through the hills,
fresh horses were placed in the harness
at Bakers mining camp, in Purgatory
gulch, al i o'clock, and the stage was
turned toward rhe southwest, chat the
visitors might view the newly discover
ed placer mines on the Grand Encamp-
ment river. Six men were seated upon
the top o. the stage, three on the rear.
and three on the front boot. and six &C.
cupied the inside, and were burtoned
in by the leather doors OF the stage.
When The broad plains OF the basin
OF the Grand Encampment. that
stresches away for many miles to the
east OF the new town and camp were
reached, some one Of the party suggest
ed that it would be q good opportunity
for the famous South Paw" to show
his prowress in giving an exhibition Of
his driving 70 the tender feet" on the
Stage. This was not an unwelcome re-
quess to the Wild West qiarfat thrower
and stage driver. Wreathing his long
whip about the stage. he sent is buck.
skin tassel at the TANKS of the foremoA
horses. with a report that rang out like
a PISTOL shot. The horses lunged for