The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-12-07
FORTY FIVE PEOPLE. ARE IN
JURED IN TRAIN WRECK.
Broken Rail Causes Three Coaches
to Leave the Track-Go Dawn
Bank Into the Stream
Orders Were Ignored
to Slow Up on
Bridge.


City, due here at o'clock this af.
ternoon, was wrecked at the wat
er-works bridge, two miles east of
here, resulting in the injury of
about y passengers, ten seriously.
The accident was caused by q bro
ken rail, which projected from the
track, catching the first coach be.
hind the mail car, throwing it
from the track down a 20.foot EN-.
bankment, and causing two other
coaches, Pullman and the diner,
to follow it. The broken rail was
on the bridge, and the rear Pull
man rolled off the bridge into the
creek below, and the passengers in
side were all seriously injured,
| Two old ladies imprisoned in this
car were taken out at the top after
holes had been made with axes.
The engine, two baggage cars and
the mail Car passed the bridge in
safety and remained on the track,
but all the remainder of the train,
was derailed.
There were 80 memb bers of the
Warrensburg Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, on the wrecked train, and
few of them escaped injury.
The wreck occurred IA miles west
of dead Mans Curve. where the
worst wreck in the history of the
Missouri Pacific Railway happened
in Q O.tober, when thirty persons lost
their lives. s=.f.-25sss'5s74
Supposition has it that orders
were given the train crew at Center
View today to slow up at the water
works bridge on account of a bro
ken rail there. 1t seems that the
train was behind the schedule time,
and THE order was not headed.
When the heavy passenger train,
running at high rate of spead,
struck this bridge, stricking
the broken rail, which
turned and projected from the
ground, there was a tremendous
crash, and three coaches, diner and
sleeper were hurled down an en-
bankment. Shrieks and cries aross
| from mothers thinking of their
children, and men lay under the
debris, helpless to save their famil-
les. The ecene was heart.rending.
Railroad phyeicians were sum-
moned to the scene at once, and
they worked for hours upon the
wounded, who were taken to near.
by houses. One country home was
turned into a hospital.
A relief train from Kansas City
to the scene of the wreck. returned
late tonight, bringing many of the
injured to the Missouri Pacific Hos.
pital and other hospitals in this
city. ~:
| Covington, Ind, Nov. 24.-Twe
venerable men ate their Thanks.
giving dinner today at great ban
quet table on which covers for 21
were laid. The two diners were
Lewis Hetfeld, eighty,t two years,
and Colonel James MeMannoney
eighty-three years, veteran OF the
Mexican war.
Fifty-seven years ago, twenty. one
young men promised to dine to-
gether every Thanksgiving Day sc
long as two of them survived
These gay blades, who enjoyed theil
youth to the full, called themselves
"The Raging Fads."
When the first dinner was spread
in 1S47, bottle of port wine, ole
wine then, adorned the table anl
the tweaty-one agreed that the mar
who should survive all the otherI
should drink the wine. Besidei
Mr.. Hetheld and Colonel McMan
noBey, a third member of the clul
lives, Robert Brown, of Kansa
City, eighty-four years old, wht
was kept from today's feast by tn
inhrmaties of age. The bottle O
port graced the tables centre.
Of the memories that thronget
Hpon them the two patriarchs chos'
to speak only of the happiest today
They toasted the shades of thos
who have gone before, speak
ling intimately to them, as If the.
sat around the board. They dranl
to the absence of Robert Brow
and to each other.
- "And may you drink this goo,