Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-04-26
RIG BEND SPECIAL" WRECK
.ocupRED NEAR CHENEY.
washington Passenger
r..,,. En Route to Spokane
Cause Is Unkno"n-one Little Girl
instantly kiiled-sever"l Persons
severely Injured.

SPOKANE, ApIh |''N ui9'SCi ouS
soot resulting in one death and
s.,r,hpr of very serious and perhaps fatal
.N:,,r;ea occurred on the Central Washing.
~ branch of the Northern Pacific rail
II about two and one half miles west of
Cheney.
The cause of the wreck is said to have
hoon q defective steel cattle guard, one of
4ho rods of which, it is believed, tipped
- and caught in the trucks of the front
coach.
The accident deraied two coaches and
tbe mail and baggage ears, the two latter,
however. remaining at an angle without
tipping over.
lows
The year old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Neil Bowie of Reardan.
Injured.
r. D. Kellogg, eX-commissioner from
lincoln county and resident of Rear
dan. injured internally and in critical
condition.
Gene Rice, passenger, leg broken.
Bert LindIey, express agent, of Spokane,
shoulder dislocated.
- Phelps, child, both wrists broken.
- Phelps, infant in arms, severely
injured in head.
Passenger, name unknown, badly
bruised in one leg.
Il t1yith t.,La
and bruises.
It appears that the Washington Central
trains. or the "Big Bend Special as it IS
known in railroad circles, was running
nearly on schedule time, and would have
arrived here about on time at 9:35 a. m.
When nearing Cheney, between that place
and Medical Lake, and about two or
three miles west of the former town, the
crash came. There was nothing to warn
the travellers, and everything was going
smoothly, when all at once there was an
awful jolting, and before anything further
could be done, or hardly thought of, two
coaches. containing a large number of PEG.
pie, were thrown from the track and over
on their sides
1t is believed that the trucks Of the
front coach had become entangled with the
steel cattle guard and had been thrown
from the track, taking the coach and the
one behind it with it. The mail and bag
gage cars were also dragged from the
track, but were probably kept from tip
ping over by the engine, which kept the
rails. The train was not broken in two.
Luckily for all concerned. the speed at
which the train was moving at the time
OF the accident was not great, else matters
might have been much worse.
Every effort was made as soon as pos
slble to rescue those who were made help
less by the wreck, and to care for the in
lured. Help was secured from Cheney,
and the injured were conveyed by another
engine and boxcar into that town Medi-
cal aid was called and everything done
that could be.
The little Bowie girl was killed in
SANITY, and probably experienced no suf-
ienng' E. d. Kellogg an elderly man,
VINO was very seriously injured and who
II Is reported may not recover, was taken
70 the hospital at Cheney, where he now
IS, and will remain until the end comes
OF until ne RECEIVERS sufficiently to be
moved The other passengers, including
the injured, were put on a train and
brought at once to Spokane
Conductor Smith had charge of the
wrecked train, but from all accounts
tnere seems to have been no blame attach
ing 10 him, or any one else, and the acct
oeht may be set down in the list of UNI
ayoidable misfortunes.
MAIL Welgher G. w Rohrbaugh was
among those slightly hurt, one hand be-
ing injured.