The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-18
lIO SECTION MEN KILLED.
.~zsCHT TRAIN CRASHES INTO
THREE HAND CARS.
grecking Force On the Seattle Il In-
sensational Caught On . 1Yessle
~ n Dense Fog and Run Down.
urseen Escape With Their Lives.

a..r,a, Dispatch 70 the Post-IntslIlgencer.
.~ru,iar accident occurred four miles
,um Miss.cn early this morning. which
.ssalsaf s the almost instantaneous death
1T pauiano, an Italian section man, and
ss.zl injuries 10 Gearge Farneii. another
.rctlon man. whose relatives 1--we IN Van
carver. h. E.. and in Victoria.
An accident occurred on the Seattle &
ynternational railway yesterday tn which
: freight train was deralied ard cons.d-
.ras,e damage war done 70 the track Ear
~ this morning wEeekDg gang COM
eosed Of section men and the piece gang
ter,ra mem started out from Mission On
three hand cars TO repair the injury to the
track They carried on the hand cars the
heayy material and instruments necessary
In such cases.
Eighteen men, all told. were In the party.
Before they left Mission a dense fog made
everything vague and indistinct even al
Asfance OF a few feet and the men were
warned 10 be careful. They proceeded
slowly until they reached Government
dfteh about four miles from Mission, WHEN
they paused To listen for the approach OF
freight train expected from here TIE
men say that at this time the fog vas
10 dense that they could see only distance
Of few feet from them. The three hand
cars were at this time close together and
the men hearing nothing from the expect
cd freight. advanced slowly over the
bridge. When about In the center the
fright. running a. the rate Of about thlr-
Is miles an hour, IL is said, crashed into
them.
The hand cars were thrown one after thu
other from the track into the ditch Some
OF the men jumped. fortunately, Just be-
fore they Were struck.
The men on the first hand car escaped
aasnjured On the second hand car they
were not so fortunate, for George FsrneIl
alas Walker, whose daughter resides at
10 Oppenheimer street Vancouver II &
was struck fun on the head and breast hv
the wreckage from hand car No. / and
terribly injured. His death Is expected
m9mentariIy. the men on hand car No. 2
we're even worse OF. They jumped in both
directions from the car. and for the most
part escaped with slight injuries T.. Pan
iaso an italian. however. waited until the
engine was almost upon him and then
made flying leap The body was caught
BY the on-comtng engine and in less time
than 1t takes TO tell IL was mangled mass
beside the track. having been thrown a
distance of fully thirty feet. His death
was almost instantaneous
After crashing into the cars the freight
ran a distance Of nearly coo feet before
pulling up. The dead body of PauIano and
TIE terribly mangled form OF Farnell were
PICKED up and taken to Mission, where an
Inquiry Will be held by Coroner Pittendryb
OF New Westminster. who is now coming
10 the scene OF the fatality
The sixteen members OF the wrecklny
gang on the hand ears who ESCAPED IN
fiaat death by miracle can give no CO.
herent account OF the accident. They ware
simply dazed by their close cali. and went
ABOUT the work OF removing the debris
IKE men In a dream.
"heh they reached Mission they stated