The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-18
INTO A SANDBANK.
GREAT NORTHERN COACHES DE-
RALLIED NEAR MUKILTEo.
Rails Are Twisted Like Coils of Rope
Passenger All Escape Unfnjurea
Circulated fin This City-TraveIers
Reach Seattle Four Hours Late.

The west-bound Great Northern over
land ran Into a landslide yesterday morn
ing, about four miles south of Nukilteo
The engine left the track and buried IT.
self Ia the side Of the bluff The heavy
train threw the tender partially on top Of
the engine, the coal cutting and brutsfng
the fireman. but not seriously. The mail
and baggage cars crushed into each other
and were badly demolished They were
thrown on the side OF the track opposite the
engine. It is miraculous that no one in
these cars was hurt.
The remaining cars OF the train did not
leave the track, and none Of the passen-
gers was injured. The rails Were twisted
like a coli of rope. The overland was due
10 meet the Coast line train going north
at Mukiiteo. bat this morning the Coast
line was late, and the overland was or
dered to make the run 10 Edmonds before
meeting the north-bound train. The wreck
was sufficiently cleared away 10 admit the
eas.-bound overland TO pass In the even
Ing.
A special dispatch from Everett says:
1.-THE Great Northern train due in Seat
tie at 1870 this morning. was wrecked SIX
miles below Mukiiteo on a sharp curve
The train left Everett on time and was
running along al good rate OF speed,
OF those land slides which are so trouble
some 70 the coast line of the Great North
ern after leaving Everett. The train went
about three car lengths, when the mall car
left the track and Jumped into the Sound,
turned over, and the tender went up on
the bank. eight feet high. The engine
turned over. and the tneder went up on
the boiler The express car ran into the
engine and the driver Of the engine Is In
side the express car. No one was hurt. IL
is a very bad looking wreck and IL Is
wonder somebody was not Kill q. IN four
hours they had a track built around ana
trains are running through"
The receipt OF the news of the wrecked
train In Seattle was accompanied by tales
OF horror and death. The mere announce
ment that car had pitched into the Sound
gave the chroniclers a chance TO make X
q tourist car. filed with men eager to go
TO the Kiondike. The story reciied their
drowning In the car ike rats in cage.
AT the offices of the Great Northern there
was dearth Of information owing TO
through communication with the eompa-
ny's head offices in 81. Paul.
Later information concerning the true
state of affairs was received from the pas
sengers OF the derailed overland train who
were brought to the city on the Coast line
train IN the afternoon. The modified
statements were as given In the foregoing
dispatch from Everett In effect that the
fireman was injured, and that a tramp who
was riding a brakebeam was also hurt.
Another tramp who had left Everett was
not 10 be found The engine was OF the
track with the tender on top OF IT. The
mail car was In the Sound and the bag
gage car had jumped the track. The dam
age was considerable. The passengers ar
rived IN Seattle four hours late.
A wrecking train was sent TO the scene
and the work OF clearing the tracks and
making repairs continued during the night.
The mail reached the city on the Coast
line train that brought the passengers.