The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-20
SEVEN CARS IN A DITCH
Northern Pacific Freight Jumps
the Track Near Springdale.
AFTER THE DEER KILLERS
Mr.. Mcdonald, a Bear Gulch Miner, In
jured in Runaway-Receiver Will
son Looking UP Matters in Con-
nection With First National.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Livingston, June 19.--At 2:30 o'clock
this morning freight train No. SO west
bound, jumped the track three miles
this side of Springdale, a small station
east of here, and seven cars of the
train went into the ditch. The train
was in charge Of Conductor Mardis,
and was pulled by engine No. $50, with
Engineer Andy Getchell at the throt
tie. AS the train was pulling past
high embankment an immense guam
tity of earth fell from above and
struck the side Of the engine tender,
derailing the engine and DETECTING the
tender and seven freight cars into the
ditch. A part of the county road.
which runs along the top of the bluff,
was carried down by the fall and the
telegraph line was broken when the
cars jumped the rails. News of the
wreck reached this city via Denver
and Butte. the message being sent over
1000 miles to inform the wreckng
crew in this city of an accident a
dozen miles away. A car of oil, a car
of flour and two cars of building pa
per suffered considerably from the
wreck The wrecking crew which went
from here managed to clear the line in
time for the passenger trains to get
in here at o'clock this evening. The
Park train was held here to await their
arrival and No. 2, from the West, was
here on the side track all day.
Rudolf A Wagner, state game and
fish warden for the state of Montana,
was in the city to-day. He was after
some parties who killed a deer or two
vicinity of the Boulder. Mr.. Daniels,
county game warden, states that there
is any amount of game in this county,
particularly in the Boulder region, and
that if the deer and elk are undis-
turbed by the pot hunters, who wan
tonly destroy the game out of season,
there will be more game in this part
of the state when the shooting season
opens UP again than has been seen for
several years. The game comes mostly
from the National park, where ac-
quaintance with tourists makes the
deer and elk very tame and for reason
easy prey for hunters.
J. D. Mcdonald, one of the miners
at Bear gulch was seriously injured in
a runaway Friday, He was hauling
ore from the Sawash mine and had
his foot caught in the loop of the
truck when that appliance gave way
on the heavy grade. His collar bone
was broken, and he suffered several
Commissions and abrasions. DR.. Mckay.
the company physician, was called and
prescribed for the injured man and at
last reports he was slowly mending,
although suffering considerable pain.
Another accident occurred the same
day when Dave Kerr, who was also
freighting ore, lost control of his load
and the team plunged over an embank-
ment, severely injuring one of the
horses. Mr.. Kerr escaped when the
brake broke and got off without
scratch.
E. T. Wilson, receiver for the First
National bank of Helena, was in the
city to-day and went up to Bear gulch
this evening on the Park train. He is
looking after legal matters connected
with the Legal Tender mining claim,
for, which the bank has sherifs deed
and which is one of the richest quartz
lodes in all the Bear gulch district.
The trial of the case in which the
ownership of the property will be de.
cided, will come off in this city the
next term of the district court, which
begins June 81.
w. G. Van Aukin, who halls from
Saginaw, Mich, came to town to-day
on his way to Cooke City where he is
interested in the Daisy mill, which is
considered a good property in that
camp. He was the manager of the
mill at one time and conducted the
business with considerable success. His
stay in Cooke will be temporary.
Miss Mabel Martinez, one of the
teachers in the public schools in this
city, has accepted a position as &C
countant for the William Hall Mercan-
tile company at Cinnabar, at the ter
minus of the Park branch. Miss Mar
timer was one of the most successful
teachers in the county and displays
rare business ability in handling the af-
fairs of her new position.
Word reached here this evening that
the townsite at Gardner near the Ma
tional park line, has been purchased
by Harry Bush, representing the Bear
Gulch Mining company. The townsite
is the property of Mrs. McCutchen,
lady who is resident of California,
and who acquired the property from
her husband who was engaged in llti-
cation over the ground for a number
of years. The original intention of the
Northern Pacific road at the time the
park branch was built was to extend
the line to Gardner at the northern
boundary of the park, but the townsite
was located before the road was built,
and although the line is graded into
Gardner, the steel was never laid
farther than Cinnabar, four miles
away 1t is the intention of Mr.. Bush
at once to Gardner, and then extend the
line on to Bear Gulch, six miles fur
Their, where the quartz mills of the
Bear Gulch Mining company are To-
Gated A great deal of the Gardner
townsite has been sold at different
times and patent has lately been Sc
cured by the owners of the TOWNSHIP.
The purchase is another evidence of
the enterprise of Harry Bush and an
indication of what is in store for Bear
Gulch
The Yellowstone river is on the ram
page again to-day. All day long ex-
pectant crowds have watched the
bridge at the foot of Main street. ex-
pecting the structure to part company
with it's abutments and float away on
the bosom of the boiling flood which
is Juggling at it's piers. Pieces of drift
wood have been bombarding the bridge
in midstream to-day and the turbid tide
of the river is up to the highwater
mark and rapidly spreading over the