Lovelock tribune. (Lovelock, Nev.) 1898-1912, 1905-01-27
OVERLAND FLYER
GOES INTO DITCH
JUMPS THE TRACK At KODAK,
First Sillas East Of Town.
Emit Cars of the Track and No
One Injured Engine Broke from
Train and Staid on Rails---Train
Delayed Twelve Hours.

Egnt cars IN tne oltcn ana NOT
person hurt"-that is the story, in
brief, of the wreck of No. Tuesday
morning. four and one-half miles east
of Lovelock. How so many cars can
be thrown into the ditch and no one
injured. is the wonder of all who have
been to the scene of the accident.
As the west-bound Overland Flyer
came laundering toward LovelocF
Tuesday morning, and as they were
passing over the switch at the upper
end of the siding just east Of the
bridge over the Humboldt river, there
was jumping, bumpin. lurching and
twisting of the cars, sudden stop
and the Overland Flyer was in the
ditch. The engine was on the track,
clear and free from the wreckage of
the balance of the train. The dyna-
mo and express car was thrown across
the track, with one set of trucks far
out in the sage brush and the other
pair just at the edge Of the grade.
The two mail cars were thrown across
the track also, while the trucks were
crushed underneath them. The
dining car and four pullmans we're
Gaming at an angle of about 45 de-
rees, one set of wheels on the track
4 nd the other buried deep in the grade
T he last two cars were standing on
the rails safe and sound.
The engine ran on into Lovelocks,
and reported the accident. Then re-
turned with a caboose and Drs. Pin
niger and Binger to attend to the in
juries of passengers. But, luckily.
there proved to be no need of the
physicians. They could dnd no one
that was injured. There were siA
clerks in the mail car, but not one
was injured. The electrician received
slight bruises and one of the colored
cooks on the diner had a finger slight
ly bruised. OF all the passengers
sleeping in the berths. not one was
injured, and some were hardly awak-
ened.
The exact cause of the wreck is
hard to determine, but it is evident
that the cars first jumped the track
at the switch. the marks of the
wheels upon the ties appearing there
first. Evidently the engine passed
safely over and then the switch gave
way. or the other cars jumped from
the rail. There is quite a fiji at the
place of the accident, making it i'm
practical to build a Fly" around the
wreck, SO they had to wait until the
wreck could be cleared from both
ends. The wrecking crews from
Sparks and Carlin we're called out,
the steam derrick coming from the
latter place. The crew from Sparks
did not arrive until p. m. (the wreck
occurred at 6 a.m) The Carlin crew
did not arrive until later.
The scene of the wreck was visited
by nearly every one in Lovelock. and
rigs were coming and going to and
from the wreck all day. This. with
the wreck-bound pssss ngers, train
crews. stranded trains upon the sid
ing s, ETC.. gave Lovelocks the appear
snce of quite q railroad center
which it is.
the shoody track was completed
around the wreck, so that the trains
could get by at 8 a. m. Wednesday
morning. % hours after the wreck
occurred. The wrecking crews have
been working all week on the wreck,
lifting the demolished cars, which
will give employment to the shop men
for some days to come.
That there was no one hurt is the
marvel Of modern railroading. 1t is
due to the strength of construction
Of the Pullman cars. Nothing insi de