Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-12
THREE FATAL ACCIDENTS
Six Trainmen Killed in Union Pacific
Wreck in wyOminE.
ENGINEER LOSES LIFE IN ST. loUl;
Three Persons Arc Dead and Others
Injured i'm Explosion in
Tunnel Under LoBE
Island City.

CHEYENNE, wyo, Oct. 1l.--Five men
we're killed in head-on freight collision
ON the Union Pacific railroad at Ridge.
near Laramie wyo.. last night.
The dead are:
ENGINEERS FRANK STRONG AND
FIREMEN THOMAS HERsTRoM AND
GEORGE KELLEY.
BRAKEMAN L. II. MEYERS.
The collision was due to a misunder-
standing of orders. The engines OF both
trains were demolished and the train
crews we're instantly killed.
Fireman H. c. Simms died today of in
juries received I'm the collision, making the
number OF dead six.
Three Persons Die in Tunnel
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.--Three men were
Killed and a dozen others rendered un-
conscious by an explosion and fire in the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad tunnel under Long
Island. City today.
The dead men were said to be a super
intendent named George Chapman, A lock
turner named Michael Dsly and fore
man named Joseph Pearce. The cause Of
the explosion is unknown. II took place
under the Long Island railroad station in
lock at the end Of one of the four tubes
which are being dug TO connect with tubes
running under the East river to Mania ttsn
island which will connect with subways
leading to the proposed Pennsylvania rail-
road station. There were twenty men at
work in the lock and three of them were
rendered insensible either by the concus-
sion or the smoke of fire which followed
It. Elsewhere In the tunnel there were
more than thirty men at work.
Woodwork supporting the tunnel caught
fire instantly and great clouds of choking
smoke poured into all parts of the tunnel.
wild rush for the shaft, thousand feet
away and which was the. only means OF
/ exit, followed the explosion.
| The bucket by which the men were taken
! from the shaft to the street above could
carry not more than six men and there
was a desperate struggle among the fright
ened workmen to be the first to be taken
out.
When the last conscious man was
brought to the surface he declared that
several men were lying unconscious at the
| bottom of the shaft. There was a call fol-
reinforcements and a dozen or more of the
tunnel workers promptly responded. Two
( OF them were lowered into the shaft and
those at the bottom were quickly brought
up to the street
Three of the men employed in the tunne
were missed and one after another sew
eral parties of tunnel workers essayed Il
reach the men. but were unable to pene
trate the long distance through the thicl
4 smoke aud we're themselves removed from
the tunnel half unconscious At one. .tinn'
f1fteen OF the rescuers were stretched ou
on the sidewalks under treatmerN to re
suscitate them after vatnly attempting tn,
rescue.
Finally the smoke thinned out sufficient,
to permit approach TO the mouth of thu
lock, where one man was found uncon
scious and 1t was believed dead. The othe
missing were supposed TO be still in thu
lock where the explosion occurred
Engineer Killed I'm st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS. oct 1.-THE Iron Noun
tain fast mail train. which was late II
leaving Union station today, jumped th
track while making up lost time at tn
city limits, killing one and injuring tel
other persons.
Dead:
ENGINEER JOHN CASPAR, 40 years
Fireman Peter Rafferty,. broken bone
and internal injuries; serious.
serious. B. Jewson, e. G. Martin, left arm
broken, internal injuries. serious j.
/, | Wooster, w. 7. rate, H. j. Howe, w. w
Otis, r. X. A. Canary. IL r. Coleman.
The accident occurred within shor
distance of where the same train wa
similarly wrecked last spring.
Behind the engine were three mail cars
The engine and two cars plunged fron
the track at sharp curve and went dow
an embankment. The third car did no
fall down the embankment. Enginee
Caspar was crushed to death. Fireman
Rafferty, is so badly injured 1t is be
lieved he cannot recover. He was In
! jured in the wreck last spring and ha
been out OF the hospital only two weeks
Only two of the mail clerks are seriousl
Injured the others being badly bruised
Some of the injured were brought to tn
city hospital and the others were taken [