The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-16
ACCIDENTS OF THE WEEK.
Railway Age Prints List of Wrecks
for Past Seven DAYS.

Railway Age Prints List of Wrecks
for Past Seven Days.
The rails spread under a Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Columbus & st. Louis pasSen-
ger train fifteen miles west of Cincin-
natl letting the engine and baggage car
roll down a twenty-five-foot embankment
Seven Rio Grande Western cars loaded
with coal were wrecked a few miles out
Of Price, Utah, by a broken wheel.--A
west-bound express on the New York
Central crashed into freight in the East
Rochester yards. The engineman of the
freight was fatally and the fireman
slightly injured.-A Colorado Midland
passenger train WeSt-bOund dashed into
a freight standing on trestle sixty five
feet high near Buena Vista, Col. hurting
the caboose and one freight car into the
creek bottom and killing the rear brake
man of the freight train, who failed to
flag the passenger train, as ordared.-An
eastbound freight on the West Virginia &
Pittsburg branch of the Baltimore &
Ohio went through a trestle over Dryer
Run east of Weston, w. v, killing the
engineman and fireman and injuring three
brakemen. The wreck was caused by a
broken rail- and the weight of the train
broke down the old wooden trestle.-A
freight ran into the rear end of a stock
train on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago near Haysville, Pa. A stockman
was killed and another stockman was in
jured; Is head Of cattle, so hogs and 100
calves were killed. The Wreckage caught
fire, but was saved from destruction by
the Allegheny fire department
a misunderstanding of orders, a passen-
ger and a freight train on the Seaboard
Air Line collided at Limerick, twenty
miles from Savannah, on Feb. 8. Mail
Clerk J. A. Rice of Jacksonville Fla,
was killed. None of the passengers was
injured The wreck caught fire but was
eXtinguished,-An east-bound Canadian
Pacific express was wrecked about mid
way between Swift Current and Medicine
Hat on Feb. by the breaking of a rail
The first-class coaches, diner and sleep
ers were overturned and several people
slightly injured.
Two engines, one on the Grand Trunk
and the other on the Cleveland, Cincin-
natl & st. Louis collided at a crossing at
Granger, Ind, on Feb Z. The Grand
Trunk locomotive was thrown from the
track against the railway station which
and fireman of the Big Four" were bad
ly hurt and passengers of both trains
were slightly bruised.-A north-bound
freight train on the Northern Pacific ran
into a landslide at Lake Station fifteen
miles north of Seattle, on Feb. 8. The
fireman was caught between the boiler Of
the engine and one of the box cars and
burned to death.-Erie Train NO. 10, east
bound was wrecked between Mahoning
and PhaIanx Ohio on Feb r. by the
twenty car lengths and finally toppled
over in the ditch Twenty persons were
injured, none fatally
A freight train pulled out of the sid
ing at WaVerly, N. J., on the Pennsyl-
vania road, in the face Of q passenger
train. The passenger engineman was
killed and the fireman and seven others
were injured.-Smoke caused misunder-
standing Of signals on a north-bound
double header freight on the Cincinnati
Southern 1T Danville. Ky, and it ran
into another freight standing on the sid
ing. A fireman was fatally injured.