, 1899-01-10
TERRIBLE WRECK
HEAD END COLLISION BETWEEN
TWO FAST PASSENGER
TRAINS.
Five Lives Lost and Thirteen Persons
Badly Injured-Many Others Are
Slightly Hurt-Wreck Occurred
One Hundred and Seventy Miles
East of Laramie.

which left Omaha yesterday morning
drawn by engines No. 1904 and No.
1902, in charge respectively of Engine
ers Charles Ell and Rees, ran into train
No. 2, drawn by engine No. 1903 and in
charge of Engineer Dell Bonner. Bon
had orders to meet No. 3 and the
brakeman was just in the act of open
ing the switch when No. 3 came thund-
ering along at at forty-five mile an
hour gait and nearly one hour late.
Both trains were on the main track.
The engines were badly demolish-
ed, the entire train of No. 8 being de-
strcyef excepting a mail car and one
sleeper. On No. 2 the composite car
burned up.
Engineer Bonner is internally iniur-
ed and has several ribs broken.
Fireman Coleman is killed.
Engineer Ell is scalded, but MOI SER
ious.
sveral passengers are badly hurt and
1t is rumored that some passengers lost
their lives. 1t is impossible at this
time to get definite information.
There were 800 passengers on No. 3
and all but two, an old man and a wo-
man, are accounted for. 1t is supposed
they were killed. Fireman John C.
Coleman, who was killed, is a married
man and has a family living at Cres-
ton, Ia. Engineer Bonner has two ribs
broken. Engineer Charles Ell has a
scalp wound and leg slightly scalded.
Engineer Reese is cut in the head . He
is badly hurt and not expected TO live.
A Chinaman, name unknown, also has
several scalp wounds and chest hurt.
The cook on the dining car of No. 2 has
a broken arm.
DIR. G. w. Dwinnell. a passenger on
No. 2, from Montague, Cal, has rem
dered admirable assistance. The
wounded are doing we'll.
Two charred bodies have been taken
from the wreck. One is the body OF a
man and the other of a woman, sup
posed to be Miss Myrtle Armstrong OF
Paxton, Neb.
An unknown travelling man was
burned to death.
The wounded are: George ]. Hunt of
Omaha, superintendent Belmont Canal
company. left leg fractured. abdominal
INJURY, badly bruised.
H. p. They, Chicago, head burned and
singed, legs badly bruised.
J. C. johnson, a fireman on No. 8, re-
sides ait Council Bluffs, scalp wound,
face badly bruised.
Mrs. A. M. Startzell OF Rawlins, Wyo.,
left leg sprained.
Ranchman Hunt, resides near Sid
ney, badly hurt internally and may die,
Charles Sven. Finlander, en- route
to Salt Lake, cut on head. Net serious.
A travelling man named Hickey,
sprained knee IND right hand cut.
Newsboy, left shoulder badly bruis-
ed. He was blown from the car and
had a marrow escape from death.
Express messenger of east-bound
train slightly injured.
-Four cars are completely burned and
the three engines are piled up together
and resemble an old scrap iron pile.
Superintendent Baxter and Park are
both at the scene of the wreck. The
dead bodies were brought here ON a
special train. An ~improvised hospital
has been established in a sleeping car
at the wreck and DR.. Lincoln G. Simon
is in charge.
The story Of the wreck as told to
the Cheyenne Tribune reporter by G.
S. Beveridge, Almy, Wyo., and Orson
Matthews OF Midway, Utah, ex-mem-
beers of Torrey's cavalry, VINO are re-
turning home, is about as follows:
The two ex-troopers We're riding in
the chair car on No. 3, the west-bound
train, which was hauled by two 1906
class engines, and was composed of one
mail, one baggage, ONE smoker, one
| chair, one tourist and n Pullman. In
the chair car with them were W gen
tlemen and one lady passenger, who
were seated in the center of the car
The Torrey boys were In the rear OF the
car. When the crash came the smoke