The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1899-03-04
WRECK.

Df tile Hdiuft Va tuCii mum
men face death and mutilation or both
hourly while in service, nevertheless the
news OF such Il fearful accident as occur
red one and one-half miles east OF Hot
Springs last Tuesday night at 1897
o'clock gives a community a shock that
is never forgotten. Regular passenger
train No. + pulled out Of This station on
time that evening, Conductor Hicks Civ
ing the signal and Thomas J. Yeurgin
being mt the throttle OF engine 14a2,
with Will NJ. billiard rs fireman. Engi-
neer Ieargin read hiS orders in the
train di-patehers' office and said at that
time: We'll, | see | have the 1922 to-
night, she's an unlucky old horse and |
suppose always will be-" 1t was the i'll
fortune that came from the routine I'M
der ''chain-ganging." The train arriy-
ed at Hot Springs on time and departed
from the station ON time. OF the "
pusher engines that help trains from
Hot Springs to White Plains, one, the
1882, was in charge of Engineer Adam
schriber with j. G. Hendersllott as fire.
man. Shortly before the accident
Schriber and the 1882 helped Conductor
Rockey's orange train up Il y hill and
while Hockey and Schriber were getting
their orders Hockey read both. When
Schriber cut of at the top of the hill and
instead OF taking sidiAg had started to
drop down the hill towards Hot Springs
Hockey knew there would be u collision
unless Schriber Jaw No. Is headlight
and could get out of the way. Schriber
wa too far away for Rockey To help him
any. Schriber orders read that the SET
und section OF No. | would run one hour
and fifteen minutes late between Wads-
worth and L,velork AMI there il 10
doubt he entirely overlooked regular No
l on time. lie WAS dropping down the
hill rather lively when Rockey saw him.
the tender oi the engine 1882 being To-
wards Hot Springs. IfSeliriber saw No.
rs headlight. and it is tnost probable he
did, he thought il was No Us headlight
at Hot Springs us he had orders 10 meet
No. 8 there, that train being some late.
This accounts Tor him running at such
speed with np thought of the passenger
Train or danger. AT the point where
the accident occurred the country is
comparatively level. The 1882 carried
no engine headlight on the tender and
Engineer Yearsin did not have much, ii
any, chance to see the pusller coming
towards him until the collision could not
he avoided. Yeargin applied the emer-
gency air brake which was the first in
timation to Conductor Hicks and the
passengers that any thing was wrong.
The sudden jar caused by the applica-
ton OF the air brakes WAS followed in the
twinkling OF an eye by the shock caused
by the engines coming together, From
the position OF Yeargin's body when
found he must have been in his seat
with a hand on the throttle when the
engines struck. Tie body WAS found
under where the gangway was and
death must have been instantaneous.
Engine 1922 had an iron cab and from
an examination OF Y~eargin's DO ~ it APP
pears that the cab sides closed up,
catching Yeargin's head as in a vice,
crushing out his life and then dropping
him to the track where both legs were
cut off at the thighs. The body OF Fire
man Dillar;! WAS found under the boil
er of No. Is engine and it could not he
released until the wrecker arrived and
raised the boiler. The body below the
chest was ground as if it had been rolled
or showed along with the mass of iron
wreckage and the face and head were
bruised some. The body OF Fireman
Hendershott was found near the boiler
of No. Is engine with but few external
injuries. He must have been thrown
on his head as the apparent cause Of
death was a broken neck and injuries to
the head. The right ankle was broken.
The driving power of a heavy sleep
er in the rear against the engines tel
escoped the front end of the train bach
TO the irst coach, Had the coach beer
full of people many would have
been killed as it seemed to be the
poist which bore the force of blows
fsofn rear and front. The mail and