Wadsworth semi-weekly dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1900-12-04
FATAL TRAIN WRECK.
Brakeman Jones Killed IN the Ac-
cident-Engines and Cars
Demolished.

thou9htS OF tnanNulneSs al having al
most made another trip. Brakeman
J, F. Jones last evening met with a
fearful death, Although within
one-half mile Of the end Of his
run, that run on the rails will never be
finished; but life's run is ended for all
time, and the train register shows that
No. 2o5 is still due.
Last night between s and $50
o'clock the news spread that wreck
had occurred just east Of town. In a
few moments many persons had has
tened to the scene Of the disaster,
among them reporter Of the Silver
State. The scene that met their gaze
is indescribable. In jumbled mass
were two large mogul locomotives.
seven loaded cars, and rails and ties
bent. twisted and shattered
Train No. 2o5, in cha &c of Con-
ductor R, V. Costello, and drawn by
engines l425 and ll13, manned by
Engineers Charles Osgood and Frank
Denning and Firemen Anon and Ed
son, was bowling along at good rate
Of speed. The switch at the mill
track, quarter Of mile east Of town.
was reached. when jar and humping
over the rails warned the enginemen
that the engines had left the track
Engineer Osgood Of the l425 applied
the air and In an instant his engine
was overturned and lying across the
track, nothing but a mass Of bent and
twisted iron. Engine lll3. Engineer
Denning, SHE'D to the left, climbed the
rails and plowed its way into the soft
sand. And behind it came several
CafS OIL SlcSl anu COAL.
Several causes are ascribed for the
accident but it Is impossible to arrive
at any definite conclusion. Whatever
may have been the cause, ihs fact re-
mains that the two engines are almost
demolished and one life sacrificed.
From the position Of the wreck IT is
evident that the lead engine, No. l425,
took the mill track siding and when
No. l1l3 struck the switch she kept
the main line, indications pointing out
that both engines left the track, En-
gine l425 was forced a distance of
about thirty feet over the ties and was
thrown in a direct angle across the
track. Everything was stripped from
It, only the boiler remaining intact to
tell what II had formerly been. Engine
1ll3, following, climbed the rails and
rooted Its way into the sand up to the
journals, the pilot being some thirty
feet ahead of the remains OF l425. II
stands upright to an angle OF about
forty-fiye degrees from the track, and
the driving gear and boiler is little
damaged.
II was on the lll3 that Brakeman
Iones met his awful fate. AS is Gus
tomary, Jones, who was head brake
man, was riding in the engine, and
nearing the station, was about to leave
it 10 climb on top. He was in the
gangway between the engine and tender
when the crash came. Engineer Den
ming said to him, "For Gods sake
keep out of the gangway." At thi:
Iones jumped back into the cab anc
grabbed Denning around the neck
About this time something struck the
cab and threw Denning, Jones and the
tool box to the floor. From the posi-
ton in which Jones was found it is evi-
dent that he then made another attemp
TO lump and was caught and crushed
in the gangway. His body was crushed
from the chest downward and deatf
must have been instantaneous. Wher