Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-27
TEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK
Seventeen Others Injured on the North
western Line in Wyoming,
CAUSE, BRIDGE WEAKENED BY HIGH WATER
Engine aud Part Of Train Passes over
in safety, but Bridge CoIlaPses
with Car Containing Party
of LabOrers.


O'Clock. twenty-eight miles west Of Casper,
near Siminole station. The train consisted
Of an engine. six boxcars and two waycars
and was carrying workmen who had been
clearing a previous wreck further west.
The wreck last night was caused by a
washed out culvert. The engine passed
over the culvert safely and one waycar re-
NAMED on the opposite side. the six box
cars and one waycar going into the ditch.
Ten men were killed and eighteen injured
The dead are
CHARLES MoLL. section foreman at
Casper.
p D; BLUE, section foreman at Cadoma.
STOJAN SARCER.
NAME KNOVICE.
PETE VEGNONIC.
/ BUDE ROISAKOVIC.
MILE RODOkONIC.
MOTKE KNOWEWICK.
MELAH RADOWOkICH
MELTON MARSCH.
The injured:
Nick ZURICH
Illus Radokish.
Joahn Idokowich.
Theodore Radokovwsz.
ILLUS Arnbowich.
Nick KlasCza.
Alius Morsch.
Mayer Sosohpart.
Pete Harlich.
Morsch Illus.
Mela Marslch.
Nick NoverisCh.
William NJ. McQueary.
f. J. O'DonneL
r. j. Finch.
Hayden c. Blue.
George Martin.
Relief Sent TO Scene.
There were thirty men in the car that
was wrecked and only five of them escaped
injury Most Of the killed and injured are
foreign laborers who were employed on the
railroad extension. The waycar caught
fire. but the blaze was eXtinguished at once.
Four doctors from here left at 10 o'clock
last night with fifty men to assist in car
ing for the injured and clearing away the
wreckage and four doctors and nurse
from Douglas arrived in Casper this morn
ing and went to the scene of the disaster.
On account of the Platte river bridge just
west of Casper being damaged yesterday
by ice gorges those who went out early
were obliged to drive or go on handcars.
The bridge was hastily repaired and train
left here at Q o'clock with additional help.
The dead and injured were brought to
Casper this afternoon and are being cared
for at the hospital and at private houses.
where cots have been set up. The dead
bodies of the foreigners were placed i'm the
town hall and an inquest will be held to-
morrow Engineer Fisher and Fireman
Stevens as well as the other trainmen, es-
capped without the slightest injury. The
conductor and brakemen were In the way
car at the rear. which remained on the
track The work of rescuing was carried
on all night by the few who escaped. ID. ID.
Blue was caught in the cupola OF the de-
molished waycar and lived from 1890 when
the wreck. occurred. until $50 this morning,
ssfl, Il, for Ia
friends to relieve him and he begged them
to kill him. His son was among the ones
who escaped with their hves,
story of survivor.
The first detailed story of the wreck
was brought to Casper today by an ltallan
Interpreter. Antonio Levalli, who was in
| the accident
Levall says the train, a work outfit,
| composed of one coach, two fiat cars and
water car, was returning to Casper
! from the front late Sunday afternoon. All
streams were swollen and in places water
/ was standing on the track. Near Natrona
| the train struck a small bridge over a
swollen stream. The engine passed over
| I'm safety. but the coach, loaded with the
section men,-aropped into the roaring tor
rent and the fiat cars and waycar piled
on top.
The coach was demolished. There were
twenty-six persons in the car at the time
! of the accident.
Foreman Charles Mol was killed and
for a time the laborers being without a
leader. were frantic and did not know what
to do The engineer and fireman and
the train crew quickly assumed charge and
the work Of rescue began
The train crew and the less seriously
hurt worked all night and as fast as the
| injured were taken out they were carried
to Natrona. where they received sucf
treatment as could be obtained at the gee
ton house and two or three ranch houses
| The wreckage caught fire soon after the
accident occurred and for time 1t looked
as II the dead and injured would be in
cinerated before they could be removed
A bucket brigade was formed. however
and after a fight the flames were extin
guished before any material damage wa
done. One or two of the laborers pinned
under the wreckage near the stove wer'
slightly burned.