Williams news., 1905-01-21
NO. 7 IN THE DITCH
No Deaths But Many Miraculous
 Escapes

Last Wednesday afternoon about o'clock terrible smashup took place on the Santa Fe, about fifteen ] miles east of Williams, and just a little east of the little station of Maine. Train No. ', made up of a mail car, two baggage cars and four passenger coaches, was turning a curve at the rate of twenty five miles an hour when suddenly de- fective rail snapped, the engine broke loose from the train and the tender and mail and baggage cars were thrown all around. The smoking car was found lying at an angle of sixty degrees, with half
 dozen trucks belonging to the bag gage car underneath it. When the crew and passengers came to their senses after the awful fright and shake up, a fearful scene met their gaze.
 Fireman Harry Stevens, who
 jumped from the cab into the snow
 to save his life, discovered a poor
 hobo crawling out from under the
 tender with one leg dripping with
 blood, the leg having been cut off
 just below the knee.
 Conductor James Burke was i'm mediately at work making inqui ries regarding the injured. He
 found Engineer Jack Williams com
 ing down the track from his engine which had run about 15O yards ahead, none the worse for the acci- dent excepting the scare, though he had stuck manfully to his post, 3 after shutting off the steam. w. T. Darrah, the mail clerk . limped from his car with an injured t ankle, but otherwise all right. : J. c. Crow, baggage master, had t his back injured, but not seriously ;; it is hoped.
 t Henry Martin, a passenger, or s his way to Williams to engage ir l. the jewelry business, received in ternal injuries.
 | Fireman Stevens escaped with s only slight soreness in his neck
 The man who lost his foot was
 beating his way on the tender '. which was wrenched from it's trucks
 and thrown flat on the ground, tht ,. poor fellow falling with his foo
 underneath. A trained nurse who e was on the train gave him all thu 7. aid in her power and cared for hin J. until the arrival of physicians.
 Conductor Burke at once sen tt men east and west to flag approach s. ing trains and seek help. In al e hour an engine arrived from Flag e staff and took back the special ca
 (the only one not derailed) to tha e place, in which were General Traf e fic Manager Riddle and Passenge e Agent Nicholson.
 About 7 o'clock a special trair 1t of three coaches with physician: 'f and railroad men was sent ou e from Williams Drs. Melick ano e Raymond, of the Santa Fe medica d staff, accompanied by two visiting n physicians from New York, at once 1. went to work on the injured. Dr |. Melick bound up the leg of the un r. fortunate stranger and he was sem
 to the hospital at Flagstaff.
 About 15O yards ahead was the
 engine, without the tender, stand s ing on the track, or rather partly j. on the track, only the front wheels '- being on. Behind were rails anc n ties twisted and broken like so m ucE : match wood. Engineer Williams e stuck to his post and alighted from
 his cab without injury
 e One of the passengers, man
 travelling from Tennessee to the h Philippines, was wearing bandage e around his head, he having been in If a wreck two days previous neal j. Wichita, Kas. He wonders, he says : what will happen next.
 : A narrow escape was that of Mai l. Clerk Darrah, whose car was thrown e off the trucks on it's side. Those '- standing by were afraid to go into 2 the car and search for his remains g when he appeared at the door, not
 very much the worse for his expe. r rience. He had just finished his
 work and was lying down resting
 when the accident occurred, his re h clining position doubtless saving l. him from serious injury or perhaps r death.
 t Baggage Master Crow was an
 other lucky one, for his car was b thrown on it's side.
 l. Luckily the scene of the accident l. is on level ground. In the imme- }. diate vicinity, only a few hundred '- yards west, is a deep gorge, and a $ little east is steep decline.
 Shortly after the first report ot