The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-21
TERRIFIC DISASTER
SANTA FEE PASSENGER TRAINS
COLLIDE IN ARIZONA.
TRAINMEM KILLED AND INJURED
East and Westbound Limited Trains
Coast Together Under Full Speed
at Franconia, Ariz.-Dead
and Wounded.
(By Associated Press.)

Los Angeles. Cal, Nov. PA fatal
wreck occurred on the Santa Fe road. one
mile west of F'ranconia, ~Ariz., a SWITCH
ing station 20 miles east OF Needles. at
Sis yesterday morninS. Seven train
men We're killed. ) passengers and ii
trainmen injured. Limited trains. east
and west-bound. Nos. 4 and respective
ly, crashed together while running al
full speed. Train No. was drawn by
two engines. while the west-bound train
had but one locomotive. The three en-
Eines We're crushed and blown to pieces
by an explosion which followe>. the COLI
sion. Both trains were made up of YES
tibule cars of the heaviest and most
improved pattern, and while they stood
the terrific shock we'll and protected the
passengers to a great extent several of
the cars took fire at once and burned
up. The dining cars, one on each train.
one Pullman and two composite cars
We're destroyed.
Dead and Wounded.
Following is a list of the casualties.
The dead:
P. MELLIGOTT. engineer train No. L.
B. F. GOLDSMITH. fireman. No. ).
H. E. BARNHARDT, barber, train
WALTER DAvORGIE, waiter, train
No. 3.
w. L. CASE, fireman. train No "A.
A. H. ARMITAGE, train No 3.
SAM BROWN. waiter, train No. s.
Bodies of latter three missing.
The injured:
Joe Morse, conductor No. L. badly cut
and scalded.
r. r. Higgins, conductor No. 5, badly
cut and scalded.
J. r. Williams, engineer No 8. cut and
bruised.
L. w. Fair waiter No. 5, bruised: 321O
State street, Chicago.
Be-. H. H. Webb. porter No. 4, scalded: 1881
Dearborn street, Chicago.
= Otto Barse, chief cook train No. 5. chest
badly injured; 1852 Fifth avenue, Chi
cago.
Tony Larsen, second cook No. 3, head
and legs badly burned: 154 South Clark
street, Chicago.
Monte Morton, train No. 8. badly cut
about head. body and legs; 1858 Twenty
seventh street, Chicago.
Harry Letcher. porter No. 8, badly hurt,
cut and bruised; Sis State street. Chi
cago.
F. Williams, waiter No. 4, slightly
scalded; 531 State street. Chicago.
Thomas H. Owen, waiter No. 4, hands
face and feet cut and scalded: 27O5 La
sale street, Chicago
j. H. Arnold, waiter No. 4, slightly
scalded; 1858 TWenty-seventh street, Chi
cagO.
J. w. Bryant, waiter No. 4, hands and
face scalded 544 West Fifty-f fourth
place. Chicago.
Passengers injured:
P. J. steenson. right shoulder, left an
k,e and left wrist strained and bruised;
PASADENA, Cal.
w. L. Franklin, slightly bruised. San
Francisco.
Mrs. H. H. Gibben, slightly injured;
Cause Of the Wreck.
The collision is said to have been due
to a disregarding of orders on the part
of the crew of the west-5ound train,
though full particulars on this point are
as yet lacking.
From all accounts, however it is gath
cred hat the east bound train had orders
to take the siding at Franconia and await
tie passing Of the west-bound flyer.
which was running two hours late and
trying to make up time. The east-bound
train failed to reach the siding, and as
the west-bound train did not wait for
it, the trains came together without
warning and with an awful crash The
boiler of the west bound train is said to
nave eAploueu ullAleuldtely aIter the
crash scalding to death those of the
engine crews who had not been killed
outright. The bodies of Case and Ar
mitage, frepen train No. 4. and Sam
Brown, waiter No. 3, are missing, and it
Is believed they were cremated in the con-
flagration that followed the collision.
Scene of Confusion.
A scene of awful confusion followed
the crash. The massive engines were
piled up in an indescribable mass Of
broken and twisted steel, while the scald-