The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-04
FAST FLYER WRECKED
Tain on the Kansas Pacific Rail.
way Goes Through a Bridge.
TWO TRAINMEN KILLED OUTRIGHT.

- others Receive Fatal Injuries, and
coused by Heavy Rains which Produced
vashout-It Occurs Near Denver. Col.
sneciaI Train Is Hurried to the Scene
with Surgeons Abroad.
Denver, Aug. 4.-The fast flyer on the
,,arsas Pacific railway was wrecked
about daylight Tuesday morning, about
sortv miles east of Denver. Two train
Won were killed outright, five passen-
-ers are said TO be fatally injured and
snonv others badly hurt. John A.
ward engineer, III Twenty eighth
.treet Denver, and w. b. Harrington,
boogagemaster of Kansas City, were
FILLED The names Of the injured pas
sonqers have not yet been learned. The
wreck was caused by a washout. The
hoovv rains of the night flooded the
streams and carried out a portion Of a
email bridge which spans Comanche
creek. between Byers and Strasburg.
Cars Piled on Top of Each Other.
The train was on time and was run
ming at the usual speed when approach
inc the point of the accident. Without
warning the engine plunged into the
abvss. followed by the mail and bag
cage car, and other cars were piled
about in confusion. The engine was
completely under water in almost the
middle of the stream, and Engineer
Ward was under it. Strange to say,
the fireman escaped death but he is re-
rorted to be badly hurt. Instantly there
was the widest confusion. The fatally
nj in
forward car Some of the sleeping pas
sengers in the Pullman were thrown
from their berths and more or less hurt,
but none seriously.
Five Miles from "a Telegraph station.
Byers. the nearest town to the wreck,
was five miles away ana the conductor
fastened to cover that distance on foot.
He arrived there at 5 o'clock and the
railway officials i'm Denver were noti-
fed of the accident by telegraph. A
snecial train with General Manager
Duell and other railway officials and
physicians on board started for the
scene Of the wreck.
Meantime all possible was being done
for the wounded at the wreck. But
little additional information could be
obtained after the first reports, owing
10 the distance of the wreck from any
telegraph office. Engineer Ward was
one of the best-known locomotive driv-
ers in the city. The rainstorm was
general in the plains region and 1t is
feared that many railroad bridges have
gone out. The wrecked train was due
in Denver at 4:03.
Dead and Injured Brought to Denver.
The special TRAN that went to the
scene of the accident arrived in Den
yer at 1890 p. m. with the dead anc
injured. The injured are: Oscar In
gram, fireman, bruised about the head
dazed; n. II. Rankin, Denver. badly cu'
about the head, arm broken; j. f. Reid
back injured; Mrs Fred Nash, Lara
mic, Wyo., back sprained; Mrs. c. Z
Gravett, Blue Springs, Neb.. right ankle
broken; w. II. b. Thornton, Chicago
arm sprained and bruised; l.. Eckert
Seattle, head cut; Miss Minnie Edel
NOM, bruises; c. f. Goddard, Leaven
worth, Kan, back hurt.
Both Pullman cars remained on th'
track but the chair car was tipped
over upon end in the washout Tn
early reports of the accident received
in this city were exaggerated All tn
injured passengers will recover.