Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-03-15
TELLS OF ACCIDENT
ARTHUR STOUT OF STOCKPORT
GIVES INTERVIEW ABOUT CAL
IFoRNlA RAILRoA DISASTER
Loren Watson Fell Down Embankment
and strangIed in Soft Mud-Train
Was Going Down Steep Grade and
FIange Of Wheel Burned Off.

Loren Watson, who was killed in
a railway accident fourteen miles east
of Auburn, CAL, did not die as re-
suit of any injury, but was strangled
to DEATH" said Arthur Stout of Stock
port yesterday to Courier re-
porter, speaking of the Stockport
young man, who lost his life
in the far west week ago Sunday
evening.
"He fell down a seventy foot en-
bankment and landing head first in
the soft mud. was literally drowned.
Had been conscious or if anyone had
reached him right away after the ac-
cident his life would have been saved
and he would have come through the
wreck without scratch.
II was injured, as far as bodily in
juries are concerned, much worse
than Loren. It is my one consolation
in taking him home to his people that
there is not mark on the body to
show that it has been in a wreck.
eve were not on our way home as
reported. We had started home, but
! when we came to the top of the noun
tains there was twenty feet of snow
there, and after wintering in warm
climate we did not consider 1t safe to
go through all this cold weather. So
we started back west again.
1--WE bought out tickets to Colfax,
intending to look for work there before
going on. After reaching Colfax and
finding no occupation there that suited
us we started on west. While in Col
| fax we met friend of ours who was
a freight brakeman, and who offered to
/ .~sI III awe 414.-
AS 1t was only a short distance and
time was no object to us, we agreed,
and started with him.
Flanae Burned OF.
I'VE had not gone four miles when
the wreck occurred. We were going
down hill at a good rate of speed and
the air was placed on the wheels TO
| the limit. I am not charging at all
when say that the wheels were red
hot. And this it was that caused the
wreck, as the flange on one of the
wheels on the car in which we were
riding burned off, precipitating our
embankment.
reach to the safe side SO as to jump
out, calling at the same time to Wat
son. But it was too late. The last
I saw of Watson, he was trying to gel
to the safe side of the car, where he
could jump, then l went over and saw
cars of all kinds whirling through the
air. Then all was dark.
'This happened at o'clock in the
evening. At IL o'clock that night be
came conscious. I was lying In the
hospital at Auburn. l first asked
where was and they told me, and
why. Then I asked for Watson, and
they told me he was dead, and all was
black once more.
4 "When I felt little better and be
came myself. they told me all abou
the wreck and about finding Loren
They wanted me to stay in the hospi
tai as was hurt quite badly. All my
right side is bruised severely, ant
while there are no bones broken, the.
said there might be internal Injuries
But I couldn't. stay. felt that hat
} to come on home with, with him.
, and ne pointed toward the baggage
car,
Had Marrow Escape.
, Mt. Stout told of his narrow escape
, from death in the wreck. He sait
/ that the car in which he was ridin,
; was thrown right on top Of him, be
ing held above his body only few
inches by some iron pipes. On tol
Of the car above him, was car loade'
with pianos.
, Mt. Stout, accompanying the re
+ mains of his friend Watson, passe'
1 through the city yesterday, leaving o.
= the Fl. Madison for Stockport, tn
$ home Of both young men. The funera
was held yesterday afternoon at
. O'Clock. The remains were taken t
!, Hillsboro for interment