The San Francisco call., 1899-07-26
CENTRAL PACIFIC TRAIN
DERAILED At A CURVE
Engineer Real Killed and Fireman Van AIStine
Injured in a Passenger Wreck
Near Reno.

~ LARKS, New, July 25.-The en-
gine and six cars of the first sec
ton of the Central Pacific east
~ bound train No. 3 were wrecked
about three miles east of this sta
ton shortly after 9 O'Clock this morn
ing, entailing the loss of one life-that
Of Engineer Real-the serious injury of
one person and slight injuries to a
number of others.
The first section of No. g. made up of
Engine 1915, one express fruit car, two
mail cars, a Denver and Rio Grande
express, one regular express car, a bag
gage car and two day coaches, in the
order named, and in charge of Con-
ductor Burgess and Engineer Arthur
H. Real, left this station only a few
minutes late, shortly after a. M
When about. three miles east of here
and, according to some of the passen-
gers, While running at a tremendous
speed around a curve and entering d
cut just this side of where the track
strikes the Truckee River, the engine
left the track. The express fruit car
came crashing after it, turning the en-
gine crossWise on the track and landing
itself in fra agmentS nearly full length
up lDS sue OIL the cut. Inc HSAI Two
express cars followed the fruit car, pill
ing up against the engine, and the bag
gage car went rolling to the other side
of the track
The two coaches, well laden with hu-
man freight, remained on the track, but
stopped with such violence that all of
the passengers were thrown from their
seats. Many of them received scratches
and bruises, but none were seriously
injured. The fruit car was almost com
pletely demolished; the next two cars
were badly wrecked; ithe Denver and
Rio Grande express car had it's trucks
torn from under it, and the engine, ly-
ing on it's side across the track, was
badly wrecked.
A wrecking train with surgeons ar
rived in about an hour from Wads-
worth, but in the meantime the second
section of No had arrived and a sur
geon was found aboard, who admins
tered to the injured fireman and the
passengers in the coaches, among
whom were about a dozen members of
the Utah, Wyoming and Pennsylvania
Volunteer Regiments hOmeward bound
from the Philippines. Later in the day
another Wrecking train arrived from
the west and the work of clearing the
track was pushed forward as rapidly as
possible but it was after o'clock this
evening when they succeeded in extrf-
which was jammed in the wreckage be-
tween the engine and the wrecked cars
piled up against 1t.
When Real was found he still had
one hand on the air valve and the other
on the lever. though some of the fingers
had been severed from the hand. An
undertaken arrived from Reno this
evening and took the body to that place
to be prepared for shipment to Sacra>
mento, where the dead engineer leaves
a widow and two children. G. G. Brown,
a brother-in-law of the deceased, met
the remains at Reno an to~ether with
Engineer Hollis of Truckee, will accom-
pany them to Sacramento.
Fireman Van Alstine also of Sacra-
mento, was on the side of the engine
opposite that against which the cars
piled up. and was more fortunate than
poor Real, but did not escape uninjured.