Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1906-02-02
SOUTHERN ! " / PACIFIC
TRAINS CRASH
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ent came up from ToItlhuu ahu eoVh
charge Of the job. The mail car was
the first to be extricated, and as it
was able to travel on its own wheels
it was brought to the depot so soon as
the track was completed and it could
be brought around the wreck. The
mail was transferred to mail car on
No. IL, and Wednesday the car was
sent to the s. P. shops in Portland for
repairs. Soon as it was daylight the
dynamite was removed from the
wrecked car and stacked in field ad-
Joining the track. Fully oDe-fifrh OF
the dynamite boxes had been broken
in the crash. These we're repaired
or new boxes provided and the sticks
of powder were all repacked and dur
ing the day placed aboard another
car and Wednesday started again for
Burke, Idaho, where the dynamite
was billed for.
Wreck Master Knapp brought with
him from Portland eight expert
wreckers and these with 80 men under
Section Foreman MCCARTHY have
worked early and late at the wreck.
The two freight cars were able, with
little repairing to be moved on their
own wheels, but there was nothing
eft of the caboose, but the smashed
trucks. The tenders to the two en-
gines were wheeless and had to be
placed on fiat cars. The second en-
gine was hauled out of its earth bed
and onto the track Wednesday at 80
D. III. The earth was .shoveled from
in front Of it and the head held MP
by jacks while rails could be showed
under the forward trucks and drivers.
Then monster cable, running
through seven -sheave blocks giving a
tremendous power, was attached to
the dead engine and made fast to one
of the biggest engines on this divi-
sion. When tho big engine began to
strain at the cable the wrecked engine
began to slowly come up out of its
earth bed and was soon on the track.
All being gotten out except the en-
gine in the ditch the work Of putting
it on the track was begun Thursday
morning. This engine was buried il
the mud on its side and to get it bach
the track required all the skill ant
the pow erful machinery at the com
mand of Wreck Master Knapp, but hi
is an expert and a veteran at suci
work and he expects to have it on 1T
wheels by this Friday evening ant
Saturday it will be put In sufficien
order 10 enable 1t being taken will
the other wreckage to the repair shol
at Portland. The track will be theI
replaced ON the roadbed and the las
trace obliterated of a $50. 600 wreck.
Tuesday morning Engineer Crocker
who resides in Ashland, was sent T.
the railroad hospital in Portland
His wife came down on the earl.
morning train and was with hin
here He is expected to be able T.
return to his home in mcnth. MIR
Crocker has been running out o
Ashland since 1894 and he is one o
the most experienced engineers on th
: road. The body of John z. Barger
the dead fireman was sent to Eugen
: tuesday where the burial was mad
in the family lot. He was 33 year
old and was born in Coburg, Ian
county and had been in the emplo
of the Southern Pacific for the las
. five years. 1t is reported that he ha
, bid in a run on the Springfield branch
and this was to be his last run on thi
= division. Mr.. Barger rc led Il
= Roseburg and leaves n viii, aud tw
l little daughters, gol IN 6 years
He is said to CARY ! 90 lac insur
I ance. He was lAember of tn
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fireme
and of the Knights of Pythias. N
+ inquest was deemed advisable b
Coroner Flanagan, so none as held.
The wreck was viewed by I. W
{ Younger, master mechanic, and b
. q, C, Morris, assistant superinten
dent. who were ON this division o
: tours of inspection and were in Grant
Pass Tuesday