The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-08-31

ThirtyF Laborers Killed and Their Bodies Burned
The Injured Number Fourteen-No Regular
Passengers Were Hurt

dry pine shingles, The entire mass OF
wreckage was soon burning fiercely
and the unfortunate inmates of the
car were pinned down and burned, be-
ing unable to escape themselves and
outside assistance being cut off by
| the burning debris. OF the for,y-
seven occupants bu. twelve were
rescued, and of these it is expected
! that several will die from their in.
jurles. The rest are unaccounted for
and beyond doub; per.shed and
| were burned to ashes.
The news of the wreck reached
Kalispell about 9:aO p. M, the long
delay being caused by the fact that
there is no telegraph Office at Nyack
and it was necessary 10 60 to Bel. on,
about seven niles distant, to tele-
graph the news to division headquar-
ers in this city. No. 4, the east
bound passenger, was in the yards and
as quickly as possible coach was
cut off and with number Of doctors
from Kalispell, prccS edcd with al
naste to the scene OF the accident. No.
remained in the yards until about 4
o'clock this morning.
A short time after the doctors spe-
| cial left, the wrecker was sent to Ny.
lex and is there at the present time
putting the track in shape for traf-
ic. The news of the wreck quickly
spread throughout the city and the
lepot was thronged by anxious inquir.
ers after friends and relatives who
were on the train.
AS all the coaches on Number 8
excepting the sleeper and the two
cars burned, were practically unin-
| ured. The dead and wounded ut i'm
| prisoned in the wreck were brought
to this city. the car arriving here
| about 1880 with its grewsome load of
dead and bleeding humanity. The
train was stopped at the crossing op-
posite the hospital where teams and
s:retchers were in readiness to con.
vey the unfor una es to the hosp ia!
where they could be properly attend.
ed to.
It was a pitiful sight to see .he
r,angled an! suffering II taker
from the car. Some had fractured
Tbs. others had limbs b. oxen and az
most to man they bore traces of the
.errible ordeal they went through.
Their faces and heads were scorched
Ind blackened and the skin in many
instances was in great blisters.
In the baggage coach were the bo-
lies of Superintendent Downs cook
ind the mangled remains of two Ia
)orers who were crushed to death.
They had been removed from the
wreck as soon as possible and were
burned but little. One of the bodies
presented horrible sight. The head
was crushed in and the body mangled
horrible manner Two of the in.
ured succumbed to their injuries and
lied on the train before it reached
Kalispell. Together with the bodies
II the others they were taken in
charge by the coroner and placed in
the morgue.
Freight train No. 16 was standing
IN the side track at Nyack and when
he trains came toge her some of the
reight cars of the runaway were
brown against the caboOse and the
ear cars, throwing them from the
rack and shattering them into small
,ieces. Almost simultaneously the
vreckage burst into flames. Some
dea of the rapidity of the spreading
lanes can be had from an incident
hat occurred when the crash came.
The conductor and rear brakeman
! Il No. 16 were standing on the plat