Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1899-08-12
KILLED In A WRECK.
Engineer Ford and Fireman Woods
are the Victims.
Fireman was a Brother Of Mrs. G.. ID.
Abbott Of Palisade.

foot embankment rolled the engine oil
Southern Pacific train No. Z, two miles
east Of Dos Palos, 81 11:45 O'Clock Monday
night. bearing to death with il Engineer
O. J. Ford and Fireman Porter Woods.
The train left Dos Pslos on time, with no
indication Of anything wrong. Many pas
sengers had retired and others now pre-
pared for rest. Suddenly there was felt .
culver and g shock. The passengers in the
first four coaches experienced the sensation
Of riding over rough ground instead Of
rails. Then came the sudden stop. The
occupants Of the coaches rushed outside
and for q minute all was confusion. Men
and women CROPPED around in the dark,
many being in q tremble because OF the
suddenness and severity Of the shock.
Then came an esr-splitting Shrek from
the engine. and those not injured forgot
their own troubles to hasten to the head Of
the train.
There they beheld g sight that they will
never forget. In front Of the wrecked
passenger, baggage and mail cars lay the
engine and tender, bottom up. In falling,
the engine had turned over and struck the
drum, bursting il open. Out Of il Kissed
torrents of steam, embracing the forms Of
the engineer and fireman, filing their
lungs with life-destroying heat. The en-.
gineer was finally extricsted, and had
friends been present they could have done
no more than the kind-hearted passengers
did. Two trained nurses we're among the
passengers, and they were like ministering
angeles. For nearly three hours the men
lay there suffering sgonies worse than
death before 8 physician arrived, and just
after that the engineer passed away, after
having made q hard struggle for life.
How the fireman got into the field
where he was first discovered without be-
ing thrown there is a mystery. When fret
discovered he was running about, crying
with pain and excitement, and ran back
toward the locomotive, being caught in
the wire fence, so that in removing him it
was necessary that his ~overalls be cut away
TO get him loose.
Engineer Ford spoke but once after be.
ing hurt. He realized he could not live
and left a kind message for his family.
He asked forgiveness for any sorrow he
had caused them.
When the physician attempted to pull
the firemsn's shirt from the neck down
ward, all the flesh from the chest and
stomach lifted with the garment. Spects.
tors say that never in their experience was
a more nervy man seen. He died an hour
later.
Ten other persons we're more or less
injured. The disaster is thought 10 have
been caused by a broken car wheel.
Porter Groom Woods, the fireman who
lost his life in the wreck of the Los Angeles
express near Dos Palos, was a brother oil
Mrs. G.. d. Abbott. wife OF the superin-
tendens OF the Eureka d Palisade Railroad.
Mrs. Abbott has been in California for the
past month, and is now at her parents
home In Berkeley.
A Berkeley dispatch Of August s says
that Mr.. Woods was 81 years OF age, and
leaves q young widow and a one-year.old
baby boy. He has been in the employ OF
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company
ever since 1893.
The parents OF the dead fireman, Mr..
and Mrs. O. Y. Woods, are Frustrated at
their home. 2424 Ellworth street. Porter
Woods was the third son whose death they
have been called upon 10 mourn during
the past seven months. The oldest son,
William Woods, was killed on January IL
last in the wreck Of the Owl special near
Ingomsr, at almost the same place where
his brother met death this morning.
William Woods was engineer OF the Owl
which was wrecked by running into 9
flock Of sheep. Peter B. Woods, another
brother, died recently from natural causes.