, 1905-04-24
TEMPORARY TRACK BEING BUILT
AROUND LANDSLIDE TO PER-
NIT RESUMPTION OF
THROUGH TRAFFIC.

Killed in Box Car and Fireman
Hook Injured on Head DIP assen-
gers and Mail Transferred.
The wreck at Edison tunnel, this
side Of Rawlins, occurring Saturday
afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, and being
mentioned only in The Republican of
Saturday, was much worse than was at
first reported, and has not been
cleared away yet. There is a large
amount of rock and earth in a deep
cut west of the tunnel, which has
blocked the line and around which the
company is now building a temporary
track. Hundreds of men are at work
removing the debris of the slide and
building the temporary track, and 1t
will not be earlier than tonight that
trains will be allowed to use the new
track and proceed on their journeys
east and west. There has been a con-
gestion Of business for two days or
more, the handling of freight across
the intervening space having been alb
solutely suspended. Passengers, mail
and express are being transferred by
wagons around the slide, more than q
dozen car loads Of mail alone having
been handled by teams. Fred Brees
Of this city has two teams at WORK on
the job, Frank Frazer has four teams
from the Elkhorn barn and ]. E.
Winslow of the Windsor stables has
five teams. The haul is about a mile
and a half in length, over a very rough
road, and the weather has been very
bad since the accident occurred, there
having been rain, snow and wind al
most from the first.
The wreck occurred in a cut about
200 yards west Of the tunnel, and did
not in the least affect the tunnel. One
wild report in the Cheyenne Leader
''buckled," the cars striking the roof
OF the tunnel and adding to the 'hor-
roy" Of the scene. The fact is, not q
pound of dirt fell in the tunnel; the
tunnel is being used every hour and
has been used every hour since the
slide In the cut. Some of the Denver
papers had very wild stories, the only
correct statement appearing in either
of them going to the Post from here,
where the new was obtained from the
dispatchers and was absolutely correct.
Even the Post added some Of the 'yel-
low" stun from Cheyenne and spoiled
its story.
Engineer Nelson and Fireman Hook
of the engine caught in the slide
jumped. The engineer received a
sprained ankle and the fireman was
hurt in the forehead, receiving a cut
Of the skin and q fracture Of the skull.
He was placed aboard q special train
and hurried to Denver. passing through
Laramie Saturday night. The engi-
neer vas treated here. Conductor
Bowman received a slight wound over
one eye, but was not seriously hurt.
A tramp was killed In a box car
near the engine. He had probably en-
tered a a loaded with cement from
the Laramie plaster mill and been
sealed up. His body was horribly
mangled, one leg being severed and
the trunk crushed.
The slide occurred In the cut, so that
the temporary line. now being built
on the grade of the old lin, will go
around it, the temporary line being
about a mile long and requiring the
replacing Of two bridges. A pile driver
was sent to the scene this morning
and is driving piling upon which the
temporary bridges will rest. There is
q double curve on the temporary line.
1t is hoped to have this line completed
and cars running over 1t tonight. At
present passengers. mail and express
are being transferred, the latest trains
to reach the n being No. l from
the east and No. 2 from the west, the
Overland Limited trains. There was q
congestion Of passenger business here
yesterday, . large number Of passen.
gers having been cared Tor here at the
hotels and in the dining cars Of the
company. Al fast ~ possible trains
we're consolidated and sent to the
scene OF the wreck, where the passen'
gers were transferred and the equip
msnt sent back east to be used on
other trains. Among the waiting pas
sensers here Saturday night were sev'
ual huadred soldiers going to Gar
Ttancisoo. They did mot ct away
usttl asksrnoon yesterday. Al the 10
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