The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-24
Seven Lives Lost and Number of
Persons Injured.
Train Was Going at Rate Of AZ
Niles an Hour.
CAUSED By sun KINKS.
Locomotive Is Under Hundreds
of Feet Of Water.
Disaster Occurred at the Exit
From 3 Tunnel.

Spokane, Wash. July AIT least
seven lives were lost. seven persons
we're seriously injured and score Of
others sustained cuts and bruises in a
wreck of the fast mail train on the
Great Northern. a mile and a quarter
east Of Camden. Wash. s5 miles east
Of Spokane. when the locomotive, mail.
baggage and smoking cara left the
arils on emerging from a tunnel and
plunging over the seventy foot en-
bankment were submerged in the
waters of Diamond lake.
Spreading rails probably. caused by
sun kinks is given as the cause.
The Dead
EDWARD AIUNsON. engineer. Hill
yard, Wash.
FRANK BELL. fireman, Hiiyard.
CHARLES DANNER, mail clerk.
GEORGE f. STRICKLAND. ex-
press messenger.
GEORGE HOWARD cURTICE.
Spokane, lumberman.
T. J. DOLBOW. Spokane.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN st Buchan-
ans undertaking rooms; has brown
mustaehe and wears an Odd Fellows
pin.
Seriously Injured.
John Lord. Seattle. actor. left hand
cut. face bruised and back hurt.
Walter n. Ross, news agent, Seattle.
wrist cut.
Henry Byoeum. Minot. n. D., badly
burned and hurt internally.
Immediately after the smoker struck
the water there was q binding flash
which spread over the part of the car
not submerged and a fire followed.
The impact was so terrific that sew
eral cars on the rear of the train were
wrenched and twisted and the fact that
the couplings did not break on the
dining, tourist and sleeping cras was
the only thing that averted even great
er loss OF iifes
Engineer Munson and Fireman Bell
evidently stuck to their posts. Il is be-
heved that the locomotive il in from
100 to 500 feet OF water Two divers
made half a dozen attempts to find the
locomotive, but We're not successful
". S. NiHnenan, contractor for
construction work on the Oregon Rail-
road & Navigation company broke
through e window TO escape from the
burning and haIf submerged smoker
Mr.. zimmerman said:
I'VE were coming at fearful speed
through that tunnel and We passengers
were all wondering If the engineer had
lost his senses, driving at that rate Of
speed with sharp curve ahead.
think we must surely have been going
As miles an hour.
OnciaI Statement.
st. Paul. MIMI. July Z4.-Ihe once
of General Superintendent Slade, Of the
Great Northern railroad. today gave out
the following statement regarding the
wreck near Camden, wash, late yester-
day:
''Frain No. 8. engine No $50. left the
track at the west end of the tunnel one
and one-haf miles east Of Camden
Wash. and 80 miles east of Spokane.
The engine and the mail car went into
the lake and are out of sight The
baggage car also went into the lake.
but is merely submerged below the sur
face.
Engineer Munson. Fireman Bell,
Baggageman Strickland. Mail Clerk
Charles banners and one passenger,
George f. Curtis, of Spokane, were
drowned
The following were injured:
It. J. Deibow, Edward Neweomb. G.
Wainch. Luker Nilinkeconbic, all OF
tie. Elmer E Hill of Colfax, Wash.
bruises
The gas tank under the mail car
exploded and set fire to the first-class
coach but the fire was extinguished BY
the train crew and passengers. The
tourist and diner dropped of the rails
but the. sleeper remained on. A relief
train with physicians was on the scene
in As minutes and the pa ssengers were
transferred and taken to Spokane where
the injured are resting easily. None
was fatally hurt. The cause of the de-
railment has not been learned