The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-04

jurics. The rest are unaccOunted for
and beyond a doubt persisted and
were burned to ashes
The news of the wreck reached
kalispell about $3.50 D. M, the long
delay being caused by the fact that
there is no telegraph Office at Nyack
| and it was necessary to go to Bolton,
about seven miles distant, to tele-
graph the news to division headquar-
ters in this city. No. 4, the east
bound passenger, was in the yards and
as quickly as possible a coach was
cut O nd with number of doctors
from X peil proceeded with all
haste tol Gene of the accident No.
4 remained he yards until about 4
o'clock this =. .ining.
A short time after the DOCTORS spe-
cial left, the wrecker was sent to N.Y.
| ack and is there at the present time
putting the track in shape for traf-
iic. The news of the wreck quickly
spread throughout the city and the
depot was thronged by anxious inqnr.
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-
jured The dead and wounded i ,. i'm
prsoned in the wreck were brought
to this city, the car arriving here
about $3.50 with its grewsome load of
dead and bleeding humanity. The
train was stopped at the crossing op-
poste the hospital where teams and
stretchers were in readiness to con-
vey the unfor,unates to the hospital
where they could be properly attend.
ed to.
It was pitiful sight to see :he
r'angled an! suffering n taker
from the car. Some had fractured
ribs. others had limbs broken and al
most to a man they bore traces of the
terrible ordeal they went through.
Their faces and heads were scorched
and blackened and the skin in many
instances was in great blisters.
In the baggage coach were the bo-
dies of superintendent Downs cook
| ma the manglcd remains of two la
borcrs who We're crushed to death.
| They had been removed from the
| wreck as soon as possible and were
burned but little. One of the bodies
presented a horrible sight. The head
was crushed in and the body mangled
in horrible manner. Two of the in
iured succumbed to their injuries and
died on the train before it reached
kalispell. Together with the bodies
of the others they were taken in
charge by the coroner and placed in
the morgue
Freight train No. l6 was standing
on the side track at Nyack and when
the trains came together some of the
freight cars OF the runaway were
| thrown nunincf
rear cars. throwing them from the
track and SCATTERING them into small
pieces. Almost simultaneously the
wreckage burst into flames. Some
idea of the rapidity of the spreading
flames can be had from an incident
that occurred when the crash came.
The conductor and rear brakeman
OF No. 16 were standing on the plat
form of the caboose and the force of
the collision threw them fully so
feet away. Fortunately they were un-
injured and the brakeman made a
dash for the caboose to secure his
coat which he had left hanging there.
But before he could secure it the car
was a mass of flames and his coat
containing his watch and quite large
sum of money was lost. The head
brakeman of the freight heard the
runaway coming but before he could
realize what it was it had dashed into
the luckless passenger. AS it was
carrying no lights and was going at
high rate of speed it was impossible
! to see it in time to avert the collision