The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-01-10
PULLMAN GAR
BURNS EN- ROUTE
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Not in History of Northwestern
Road Has Another Such
Accident Happened.
ONE MAN s~uFFOcATED1
Louis DeLario, Clerk of the House
Committee on Irrigation, Fails
to Awaken and Meets Death
in Burning CIR.

Missouri Valley, Ia, Jan. S.-Not in
the history of the entire Chicago and
Northwestern railway system, in the
opinion of trainmen of the Sioux City
division, was there eve a case until
Sunday morning OF a sleeping car
catching fire between stations and
burning up before q water supply could
be reached.
The unusual case happened just off
the Sioux City division at a point
three miles west of Missouri Valley
near the little town of Loveland.
The dead:
LOUIS DELARIO, Washington, D. c.,
clerk of the house committee on irri-
cation.
The injured:
o. FL. Johnson, of Salt Lake, slight
burns on neck and head.
Henry Cabrow, of Salt Lake City,
right wrist cut by glass.
Mrs. b. Higgins, Carbonate, Pa, suf-
fered from exposure.
Flames Envelop Entire Car.
The sleeping car was a standard IA
section Pullman in the eastbound Los
Angeles limited train, a transcontinen-
tai train, patronized almost exclusive
ly by through passengers, and perhaps
the finest train in the Northwestern
service.
Ten of the sections in the car were.
occupied. The fire started in the first
berth back of the drawing room,
which was on the head end of the car.
The berth was occupied by a woman
| who had a baby. She was heating some
milk by the lame from a small alcohol
lamp. The flames swept down the line
of curtains and Immediately the whole
interior Of the car was enveloped in a
sheet of fire.
Passenger Gives Alarm.
The first knowledge the trainmen or
passengers in the other cars had of the
fire was when a passenger from the
burning palace on wheels rushed into
the sleeping car ahead and clad only in
his night clothes shouted tor everyone
to get up, that the train was on fire.
For a few short minutes the widest
sort of terror and excitement prevailed.
The train conductor ~signalled to the en-
gineer and the train was stopped so
that the work of r~escuing the passen-
gers in the burning car could be eXpe-
dited.
Trairmen Quickly in Action.
Trainmen, who We're the only ones
dressed, rushed down the aisle OF the
car through flames and smoke and car
ried out men and women in pajamas
and night robes. The curtains, bed
clothing and inflammable plush and
packing Of the upholstery We're
shooting their flames up to the roof Of
tllC SCl IN SNSl Slid was OIL IRE.
Some of the passengers had not awak-
ened. One of these was Louis De-
Lario. clerk of the house committee
on irrigation, Washington, d. c., whose
home was at Laramie, Wyo. Mr.. De-
Lario had slept through the noise and
excitement, and when he was pulled
out of his berth he was choking from
suffocation and died in a few minutes.
The body of Mr.. DeLario was slightly
burned although there seemed no ques-
ton that he died OF su~ffocation rather
than from the burns. Mr.. DeLario's
Washington address was 1101 X street,
northwest.
Property Of Passengers Lost.
The majority of the passengers lost
all their outer clothing, their tickets,
money and valuables. A pocketbook
containg a draft for $4,000 and
several large bills was among the ar
ticles grabbed from the berths by the
rescuirg party of trainmen. The Wo,n-
an who had the baby saved her pocket
book.
After the passengers had been re-
moved the eagineer made a fast run
to Missouri Valley with the burning
roof and windows and streaked be-
hind with the train racing a mile a
minute across the prairie the scene
was highly spectacular.
Car a Wreck.
Before the fire department of Mis-
sourn Valley could be got out the cal
was burned to the floor, only the stee.
frame work remaining.
The body of Mr.. DeLario was taker
care of by the Missouri Valley under,
talSer, who held it far Instructions.