Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-11
TELEGRAPH NEWS,

bIeehe river, shortly before midnight
hllling sixteen persons outright an
ln1uring score of others. Engineer
ana hremen of both trains, tn,
ehtlre dining crew of the flyer. tn,
conductor and head brakeman of tn,
freight, postal clerk and seyera
passengers are among the dead.
The track was torn up for some dis
lance and both locomotives and many
cars were demolished. The flyer was
late and running at the rate of seven
ty miles an hour when the collision,
occurred. The freight was making
forty miles an hour trying to make
the next side track for the flyer. The
cause OF the accident is not known.
put IL is believed that some of the
employees overlooked their orders.
To the horrors of the head-on colli.
sion soon after midnight fire was add
ed and In the it the greatest loss of
NE occurred. At daylight this morn
ing there were ten known dead and
many more were under the burning
wreckage.
one man, the operator at wilkins
upon whom the responsibility fell, has
gone crazy.
The identified dead at noon TO-DAY
are:
ENGINEER BRICK, freight, in.
stantly killed.
EARL SMITH, fireman of freight.
instantly killed.
JAMES BuSBY, Omaha. chief cook.
ROSENBAUM, Oakland. Calf. sec
ond cook
JOHN LAWS. Omaha. fourth cook.
Two mail clerks whose names are
unknown
ELECTRICIAN sTIGGERs and his
assistant
Engineer Anthony Jordan of the pas
senger train is dying today. His in.
ternal injuries have made him un.
conscious. Fireman Oscar Peterson
is also thought Is be fatally hurt.
The passengers injured are: j. C,
Hooper. Salt Lake; NJ. c. Mccoy. Kan
sas city: Mrs. A. C. Bicknell. Oakland
Calf; Miss Edna Lissay, Miss Maude
Riley, Mrs. George Cook and S. NJ.
Hulett all of San Francisco.
The three dead cooks are all white
men, but the walters are colored and
are from Oakland, Calf.
The eastbound passenger train was
late and dashed with terrific force in.
to the freight, which had several cars
of steel rails. These were forced
Sstrough srael over the engine s'py me
impact and many of thesr plowed
their way through the first cars of
the passenger train.
Soon after the collision flames be.
gan TO sweep up from the cars and
crept along toward those pinioned un.
der the mass of twisted steel and
splintered wood Nine dead bodies
were taken out before any assistance
arrived.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Congress.
man Michalek OF Illinois, whose enc
mics contest his right to hold office.
saying he is an alien, has been threat
ened with death If he makes any ef- |
fort to retain his seat. The warning
came in letter from Chicago. Mi. |
chalek is not alarmed
TOXIC, Dec. Field Marshal
Oyama made a triumphal entry into
the city today. Despite the bad wealth |
er IA great crowd was out.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. An un-
known man jumped from the Fobert
street bridge into the Mississippi riv-
er this morning. He fioated among
the cakes of ice for five blocks ana
finally sank. A large crowd watched
him but were unable to get him out. |
GlRARD, Kas., Dec. 7.--Relatives oi
Mrs. Barry have arrived from Tulsa,
J. T., to take her TO her fathers home |
at that place tonight If the mayor OF
Girard will quash the insanity charge
against ner and her condition seems
to justify the journey. She grew vio-
lent this morning and tried tot get out
OF the window Oi the jail building but
was restrained. Al times she seems
TO be perfectly rational.
LONDON, Dec. T.-At the beginning
of every winter when fogs descend
over the city and wnen the air be-
comes charged with that chilly damp
ness peculiar TO this country, which
even the warmest and thickest cloth
ing seems powerless to withstand, ev-
eryone begins taxing about influenza
and wonders what form IL will take
this year, Tor every winter 1t never
fails To come along in a different dis
guise.
Influenza has made its appearance
this year in the shape OF violent neu-
ralgia, accompanied by high temper
ature. 1t began some years ago. as It's
victims have cause to remember. with
the rheumatic type which affected tue
lungs in later stages. This was the
most fatal form the disease took.
Next the digestive system was at
tackled, and this year the nerves, espe-
cially tnose OF the head and face, are
sought out and tortured.
Chemists report large sale OIL
drugs directed toward relieving these
attacks OF neuralgia and headaches.
Facial pains are almost universal at
the present moment
Il believe we are in for a repetition
OF the headaches and neuraigias OF
the Sos" said Harley street special-