Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
RAN INTO ! BITCH
TERRIBLE WRECK ON SOUTHERN
PACIFIC.
SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED.,
IL
Culvert Was Washed Out, and Train
Plunges Wildly Into the
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SIX PERSONS WERE KILLED.

Winnemuca. New. Feb. 1S-The east
bound overland limited Southern Pacific
| train. officially known as No. .. was
wrecked at 500 O'Clock yesterday morn
| ing at a point twenty seven miles NV est
! of this place. While running at IA speed
| of fifty miles an hour. the train went into
a washed out cuivert and the result was
| the worst wreck known on this division
of the road Six persons were killed and
six injured f'-
| The dead:
| ADOLPH BISSINGER. 40 years old. of
| a firm of Bissinger & Schoss, San Fran
| cisco.
MRS ADoLPH BIssINGER. IS years
| old. San Francisco
/ c. A WHITAKER. fireman % years
old, Wadsworth. NeNv.
| c. A. COULTER, As years old, San
| Francisco.
| TWO TRAMPS, names unknown.
| injured: 3, .zt..
! Elsie BiSsinger, IL years old, daughter
| of Mr.. and Mrs Bissinger. slightly bruis-
| ed. Conductor H. e. Markle. Ogden, Sc
we're scalp wound and bruised about face
and body brakeman, J. J. Reeves, Og-
| den, bruised about body; engineer Abb
mail clerk Schuyler, San Francisco, right
leg broken and cuts on the head mail
clerk Gavin. San Francisco cuts about
the head and body.
The disaster occurred at a point when
an embankment thirty feet high crosses
a ravine. Melting snow from the noun
tains caused a heavy rush of waters
which broke through the embankment
lima ~ ~, ;cr1,t
out was about seventy-five feet in width
and into the raging torrent the Inflated
train plunged without warning. The en-
CINE nearly cleared the break before the
rails gave way. the tender falling back.
The mail car and composite car follow
ed into the chasm, the composite car
telescoping the first of the Pullman Sleep
ers and the dining car remaining on the
track Mr.. and Mrs. Bissinger and their
daughter We're in a drawing room in the
forward end of the wrecked Pullman. Mr..
and Mrs. Bissinger We're killed, while
their daughter occupying the berth
above them. was slightly injured. She
was taken out through an opening in the
roof of the car. Mr.. Coulter was killed
outright. His body was frightfully man
gled. Fireman Whitaker died at his post
which. UP to last evening, the rescuers
were unable to rescue it, The bodies, OF
two men, evidently tramps who We're
stealing a ride. are also in the wreckage.
The escape of Engineer Abbey was mir
aculous. He was thrown through the
window of the cab and was only slightly
hurt Conductor Markle, Brakeman
Reeves and the train barber were in the
composite car. The brakeman jumped
through a window and landed in about
four feet of water. The conductor and
roof of the wrecked car How Mail
Clerks Schuyler and Gavin escaped with
their lives is an enigma to all who wit
mes sed the position Of the shattered cars.
Train number four, the eastbound ex-
press, was following the limited train
very closely, and the rear brakeman
of the latter had only few minutes in
which to flag No. and prevent rear
end collision. At 1880 a. M. a special
train left this place for the scene of the
wreck, carrying doctors and nurses and
the injured We're given every attention
possible. The dead and injured We're lat
err taken back to Wadsworth on special
train and will be taken on to San
Francisco. 1t will be two or three days
before the track can be put in condition
SO that the running of trains may be re-
sumed. 1t will be necessary first to build
a trestle across the chasm in which the
wrecked cars are lying. .r.,,