East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-10

up in the yards here and Drs. Cole
and Vincent, Foreman F. T. Rounds,
w. A. Storie and crew of wreckers
were taken to the scene of the
wreck in charge of Yardmaster Steve
Leonard and crew.
The passengers and injured were
transferred into the cars taken from
here and were brought back to the
city, arriving here about o'clock.
The first reports of the wreck were
to the effect that a large number of
passengers had been killed and soon
the o. r. & n. depot was swarming
With curious and anxious people.
No. 6 the eastbound train arrived
here at c o'clock and was held here
until noon when the passengers
We're transferred around the wreck
and the passengers on No. were
brought to this city and sent on to
Portland.
Engineer SchiIke's Story.
Engineer Fred Schilke who was in
, charge of the wrecked engine, was
| rnhurt except for having his left leg
broken and his foot crushed, and told
a graphic story of the wreck to the
East orcgonian on his arrival here
| on the relief train.
I'VE were running about 16 or is
| miles per hour and l was just be-
ginning to use steam after swinging
through the low flats west of Thorn
Hollow" said Mr.. Schilke. 81 felt
| the front end of the engine lurch and
sink down and then 1 remembered
nothing more until l found myself
| sliding down the embankment to-
ward the Umatilla river. l do not
| know how l escaped from the cab,
but suppose that the lurch threw me
ont of the window. / have no idea
as to what caught my foot and leg,
for I was dazed and did not know
how l fell.'
| THE last l saw of my fireman he
was sitting on his side of the cab, af-
ter putting in a few shovels of coal.
| The washout was on a curve and
could not see it and noticed nothing
| wrong with the track. The sudden
lurch of the front end Of the engine
was my first warning"
Mr. Schilke is one of the Oldest
men in the service on the Mountain
division and is a careful and sue
cessful engineman. Fireman Nc
Partridge was 2S years of age, un-
married and had been on the La
Grande division but a short time
Four members of the La Grande
lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive firemen came over today en- No
l to search for his remains to take
to La Grande for burial.
Conductor Frank L. Coykendall OF
this city, who was in charge of tht
train, was unhurt and did heroic
work in resculng the injured anC
keeping order among the excited
passengers. Brakeman Dean Shul
, suffered a slight injury to a finger
, and Brakeman Mark ShackleforC
. was uninjured.
Narrow escapes were made b.
: Mail Clerks Graham and Oren VIII,
were both injured The mail ca
was badly smashed and their escap'
with their lives is miraculous.
The place where the wreck occur
, rcd was once a culvert but was fillet
$ in some years ago and the heav
rains on the hills caused the surplu
water to gather there, underminini
s the fiji and leaving the rails unsup
4 ported. Had the train been running
e at high rate of speed the resul
T would have been terrible. The slo,
e speed at which the train was NOV
r ing served to reduce the severity @
= the shock and saved the passenger
e from moro serious consequences.
Mail Clerks Known Here.
James p. Graham and Lewis "
Oren, the two injured mail clerks, ar
y both well known here, as they hav
. been running on the o. r. 4 n. &c
e some time. Graham formerly ra
from here to La Grande and has bee
student in the University of Orego
It medical college. He has been hei
'r frequently.
a. L. w. Oren, the most seriously II
a jured of the clerks, is also residei
S of Portland, where he has wife ar
lie several children. He is former st'