The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26
FATAL. WRECK IN WEST,
IT LEAVES THE CAMDEN
(WASH) TUNNEL.
NINE PERSONS ARE DEAD.
Fire RACES in Cars Which We're Not Sub
merged in Water-Train Ran at
Fearful Speed.

SPOKANE, Wash. July 24.-At least
nine lives We're lost, seven persons were
seriously injured and a score of Others
sustained cuts and bruises III wreck
of the fast mail train on the Great
Northern, a mile and a quarter east OF
Camden, Wash, thirty-fve miles east
of spokane, late yesterday afternoon.
The locomotive. mail, baggage and smok-
ing cars left the rails on emerging from
n tunnel, and plunging over the IO-foot
emhaukment were submerged III the WI
.ers of Diamond lake.
Sun Kinks Cause Disaster.
Spreading rails, probably caused by
sun kinks, is given as the cause
The dead:
luNSoN, y. EDWARD, engineer, I'M
'BTIL. FRANK. fireman, Hillyard;
BANNER, CHARLES, mail CLERK spo-
STRICKLAND, GEORGE r., express
cTRTICE, GEORGE HOWARD, Spokane
UOLGOW. T. ]. Spokane.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, at Buchanan un,
drrtalaug rooms; has brown mustache anu
wears am odd Fellow pin. .--,,.r,
TWO RIDDLES UNDER WRECkAGE.
Among tile seriously injured; ILL.,.
John Lord, seattle actor. lcit mana cut
fac bruised and back hurt ..,,
Walter y, Ross rows agent, Se"t''e
wrist cut ,t,,.
Henry Ryoeum, Mnot, \. y, badly
burned ana hurt internally.
Fire Adds to Horror,
Immediately after the smoker struck
the water there was a binding hash,
which spread over the part OF the car
not submerged and a fire followed
The impact was so terrific that several
cars on the rear of the train were
wrenched and twisted, and the tact that
the coupling did not break on the dlhlhE'
tourist and sleeping ears was the ohIy
thing that averted even greater loss VI
MAY Be Submerged 800 Feet
Engineer Munson and Firemen Bell
evidently stuck to their posts ana II -
believed, too, that the locomotive IS IN
from 100 to 800 feet of water Of l1la-
mond lake. Two divers made half doZ-
en- attempts to find the locomotive, put
they were not successful.
W. :. zimmerman, a contractor 1of
construction work on the Oregon Kall-
way a Navigation company, broke
through n window to escape from tue
burning and half submerged smoker.
Mr.. zimmerman said. we were com
iug at a fearful speed through the tul-
mel aud we passengers were al wonder
iug if the engineer had lost his senses,
driving at that rate of speed with Il
sharp curve ahead | think we must
surely have been going forty-hYe miles
an hour
Ohicial Story of Wreck.
ST. PAUL, MINI. July 24.-A state
ment covering the facts regarding the
wreck near Camden, Wash, yesterday,
as reported to headquarters, was given
out from the office Of General Superln-
tendeut Slade of the Great Northern
railway today as follows:
Train No 3, engine No. 800 left the track
Mt the west end of the tunnel, one and one
half miles east of Camden, Wash, and
ninety miles east of Spokane. The engine
and mail car went into the lake and are
out of sight. The baggage car also went
into the lake, but is merely submerged be
low the surface.
Engineer Munson, Fireman Bell. Baggage
man Strickland. Mail Clerk Charles banners
ana one passenger, George l.. curtis or Spo-
kane, were drowned.
The following were injured: T. j. Del
how. Edward Newcomb, c.. j. Mcliills,
james Durbin Thomas Wainch, Luker Mil
inkoobiC, all Of spokane, aud John Lord aud
wife, Seattle; Elmer Hin Of Colfax, Wash,
were injured. Three others also received
slight bruises.
The gas tank under the mail car exploded
ana set fire TO the first class coach, hut the
tire was rNtinguish"d by the train crew and
passengers. The tourist and diner dropped
of the rails but the sleeper remained on.
A relief train with phyicans was on the
scene In forty five minutes and tn" passen'
gers were transferred and taken to Spo-
kane where the injured are resting easily.
None was fatally hurt. III" cause of the
dcrailmcnt has not been learned,