The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-27
ENGINES WRECKED
Collision on Milwaukee Road Between
Two Freight Engines Wrecked
Them Both.
4 Freight Engine Flowed Into a Switch
Engine in the East End Of the
Milwaukee Yards.
Tom Harvey Mt Some jolly Friends at
Sioux City and They Held Him
Up for His Money.
TWO ENGINES WRECKED
South Freight C0liided With
Switch Engine in the Milwau-
kee Yards Friday.

Quite at serious wreck occurred in
the east end Of the Milwaukee yards
Friday morning at 6 O'Clock and as a
result two engines are in very bad
shape from the collision. The wreck
was due, 1T is believed, to the care
lessness of Engineer Walburn who was
pulling freight No. 81 from Sioux
City, and his engine crashed into the
switch engine manned by Oney
Smith. In conversation with Mr..
Smith he gave The Republican the
following information of how the
accident happened. II was switch
ing in the east end of the yards and
heard the whistle of No. 81, which
was about a mile away, and noticed
that the train was under full speed,
but | did not think but what the en-
gineer would stop at the signal post,
400 feet east of the yards. After the
train went onto the bridge the engi-
neer Whistled for brakes and it was
evident to me that there was going
to be an accident. I was pulling a
train of IA ars east bound on a side
track across the S. G. & D. track
over onto the [. sd. main track.
and my position at that time was
such that | could not avoid tie on
coming train. l pulled the throttle
open, and told my fireman. Patter-
son, to jump, but we couldn't get
out Of the engine cab at once OIL ac-
count Of the storm curtains being
fastened. Engine $50 in a short
space of time plunged under the ten
der of my engine and turned it over,
and this partly threw US out Of the
cab and onto the ground. In the fall
some way I broke the thumb of my
right hand and received some scratch
es about the face. When the tender
turned over some of the coal came
tumtling down on US, but we were
not hurt by that The heads Of
the two engines cleared at first but
the cabs caught and mine was badly
smashed"
The two engines are a sight to
bhOld and a great many people
focked to the scene Of the wreck to
watch the crew which. was
working hard and fast under the
direction of Foreman Vaughan.
The steam cylinders on the engin-
eers' side of the engine was broken
off from the collision and the front
trucks under each were turned half
way around. The head of engine
$50 was partially broken and much
damage was done in other ways.
The switch enigne seems to have got
the worst Of the collision.
Engineer Walburn, who has been
running an enigne about year, and
his fireman, Urban LaBrec, saw
what vas coming and both leaped
and saved themselves from danger.
Enginr,. Nalburn, as soon as pos
sible, luIried to the Milwa lkee de-
pot and sent in his resignation to
Superintendent Beardsley. Had the
engineer on coming into the yards
observed the rules of the company
and stopped 400 feet away from the
yards it would have given Engineer
Smith time to have got past the
point where the collision occurred.
freight No. CT had a light train of
Of six or eight cars, and the pre-
sumption is that after doing some
switching at Ethan the AIR brakes
were not coupled and the engineer
did not notice it until he came to
use them for a sudden stop.
There we're several passengers in
the caboOse. among them being A.
S. Hill, of Alexandria,. He stated
that no one was hurt as a result of
the collision. Mr.. Hill had a carload
OF fine stock on the train that were
coupled next to the engine, but none
Of them were hurt in the least. The
cattle were un]oaded as soon as DOS
sible and put in the company's stock
yards.
The wreck lies in such a position
that trains over the Sioux CITY g.
Dakota division cannot pass. and the
train from the north was held here
until the arrival of the south pas