Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-15

RAILROAD
ACCIDENT

Cured on the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road ct Woodville. Ind, about thirty
miles from this city. Reports so far
are conflicting, but the majority OF
them place the number of dead at
fifty killed outright in the collision.
Several others were caught in the
wreckage and were burned to death
and twenty-five were seriously In
jured. The majority of the killed or
injured are immigrants. The accident
is said to have been caused by con-
fusion regarding signals, which al
lowed the immigrant train TO pass a
station when freight was approach
ing from the opposite direction. The
Two trains came together at full speed
and the impact wrecked both of them
completely. A number of the cars of
the immigrant train were hurled
down ten-foot embankment and i'm
mediately caught fire. although every
possible effort was made to extricate
the passengers from the wreckage, the
flames spread so rapidly that this was
impossible in many cases. 1t is known
that a dozen of the immigrants were
killed outright and the engineer of
the immigrant train was so badly in
jured that his recovery is impossible.
The railroad officials sav this afr
ternoon that not very many were
burned to death in the wreck. Fofty
passengers, badly injured. were sent
TO Mercy hospital. The accident was
the result of misdirection OF the train
dispatcher.
VALPARAISO, Nov. 12-Fifty-three
cut of 167 immigrants who were On
a Baltimore & Ohio train which col
lided head-on with freight train this
morning at Woodyille, ten miles north
OF here, are missing. 1t is believed
fire which destroyed six coaches OF
the Immigrant, train.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-offiSlais Of
the Baltimore & Ohio announced that
they had received positive news from
the wreck at Woodville and it was
; known that out of the l35 persons on
the train, forty were killed, thirty
five others injured and sixty escaped
unhurt
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-THE
engineer and signal foreman are dead
this morning as a result of the acci-
dent 70 the south-bound Sunset Linn
tied last night. A score OF passengers
were badly shaken. The accident
happened opposite Sargents station,
eighty-seven miles south of here.
The dead are Engineer Gillespie
and Goodfellow, signal construction
foreman. Fireman Garvey was badly
scalded and both legs are broken; he
will die. 1t is also believed that four
or five tramps. riding on the platform
Or beneath the first car were killed.
The accident was caused by the ex-
plosion Of the engine boiler, the force
Of which blew the depot to pieces and
tore up the track for 100 feet on both
sSdes OF the place and turned over the
first four cars of the tram. The
sleeping cars remained on the track
and none of the passengers in these
cars was hurt.
ST, LOUIS, Nov. 1.-TWO coaches
and a sleeping car on the Missouri
Pacific fast mail train from Kansas
City were thrown from the track by
broken rail and turned over near
Eureka. Mo, early today. Eleven
passengers were injured, The most
seriously injured are G. A, Brown. in
ternally, and the Rev, Manley ].
Braker, injuries in back. Both are of
st. Louis,
DETROIT, Mich. Nov, 12.-One
man was killed and three were PROB
ably hurt this morning when freight
train on the Michigan Central ran
on Third street doing great damage
to property in the neighborhood,
CHICAGO, Nov. 12.-Thanksgiving
turkey will not be regarded as so
much OF Q luxury this year by the en-
ployes OF at least two great corpora
tions. Yesterday the Pennsylvania
Railroad company announced an in
crease of 10 per cent in the pay of ali
Its employees who are receiving, less
than 5000 month, while the Stand
ard OIL company made public that II
had voluntarily added to the wages OF
the employees of the Galena signal oil
and Eclipse refiners at Franklin. Pa.
The employees Of the railroad com
pany who will benefit by the new or.
der number about $4,000. and the to
tai increase will amount to nearly
sl2,000.000 annually. Eight hundred
1men are affected by the Standards
action, though the rate OF added pay
is not stated.
The action of the Pennsylvania com
pany was taken at special meeting
OF the board OF directors held in Phila
delphia and takes effect December !
applying to all lines of the compan!
both east and west of Pittsburg. TIVE
reasons were given for the increase
One was that the cost of living hat
greatly augmented, and tho other wa
that the company had shared, In com
mon with the country generally, II
the prosperity Of recent years AM