, 1899-12-30
G. H.. PAYNE HURT
FATHER OF JOSEPH PAYNE PROB
ABLY FATALLY HURT IN
D. P. WRECK.
Was a Passenger on Wrecked Boulder
Train-Mrs. Mary McKenna Of the
Bon Ton Restaurant at Laramie
Badly Shaken Up and Hurt-Joe.
Payne Goes to Denver.

Additional particulars received to-
day concerning the wreck which &C.
CURED near Denver yesterday morn
ing bring the news OF the injury Of two
Laramie people, c. H. Payne, father OF
]. H. Payne, being reported seriously
injured and Mrs. McKenna of Laramie.
Concerning their injuries the Denver
Times says:
Z. ii. Payne, an old man, 70 years Of
age, was among the badly injured. He
was en- route to Boulder to visit his
son, Charles Payne, engaged in the
clothing business with Holstein. The
old gentleman came from Laramie,
wyoming, where he has been stop
ping with another son, and had come
down on the Cheyenne train as far as
Brighton last night and stopped off at
that place to await the morning train.
He was not only cut about the head,
but had his right hand mashed and
came near being burned. His clothing
was on fire when he was taken out of
the wreck, the knees being burned from
his trousers. and he suffered very
much. His right eye was badly discol-
ored and closed and blood was stream
ing down his beard and trickled about
his neck. He wanted to sit up all the
time but was unable to do 30. He con-
stantly pleaded with the doctors to rub
his hand.
There were only two passengers in
jured on the flyer, and they but slight
ly. Mrs. Margaret Jane Young was
cut across the forehead and suffered
some from loss of blood. She had with
her six children, none Of whom were
scratched. She was en- route to Chey-
enne. She was left at the hotel, COM
fortably cared for. The other woman,
Mrs. Mckenna of Laramie, en- route to
her home from Denver, was pitched
over a seat and injured some intern
ally, but not seriously.
One OF the most distressing features
Of the accident was that which happen
ed to Fred Laws of Denver, a brake
man on the Boulder train. Laws was
near the head end Of the train COUP
ling up a car that had been set in when
the collision came and he was knocked
down and a box car truck ran over his
right leg, MASKING it of, or so it vas
just hanging by the skin. Laws laid
there for some time, unable to get up
and calling for help. The people about
the place were down the track farther
digging the victims out of the wrecked
passenger coach and did not hear Laws
calls. The brave fellow began exam
lining his condition and ascertaining
that his leg was hanging by the skin
only worked around until he could get
a hand in his pocket and took out his
knife. With 1t he succeeded in sever
ing the mangled member, and crawl
ing out where he could be heard sue
ceeding in attracting attention and was
taken to the hotel. and on being taken
up asked that his knife might be given
him. Don't tell her about It," he said
to one Of the helpers, as he was being
placed on the wrecking train.
The engineer, Johnny Nally, and
Fireman Peterson stuck to their loco
motive. They were on the flyer and
from the way the locomotive plowed
through the freight cars it is a wonder
that they came out alive. 1t is one OF
the most miraculous railway wrecks
that has ever occurred in this country
when the number Of passengers and
the number Of injured occupying both
trains is considered.
Sam Cohen, the mail clerk, was in
the forward car, and while that car
was driven half way into the one be-
hind 1t the lucky man jumped to the
ground unframed when everything had
come to a standstill.
Conductor J. X. Cahill, in charge Of
the flyer, was standing on the plat
form Of the chair car when the crash
came. He was not touched by any
thing. He Immediately jumped to the
ground and began looking for the mel
on the engine, mi then turned his at
t%ention to the injured. lying in a heal
on the other side OF the track, wher'
men were crawling out Of the spin
tered Boulder car The brakeman.
new mar who had been called to TAX
the run out on No. 3 this morning, wa
in the chair car, standing on a sea
anl adjusting a smoking lamp. Tn
conclusion threw him to the floor. H
at once sprang for the door. but had t
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