Arizona republican., 1908-11-19

 GET ASCARE. Thrown Into a Panic by Ap-
 preaching Freight CLIMB OUT OF WINDOWS
The Mesa Local Stops Near Tempe and the Passengers Leap for Safety as a Freight Train Appears Around the Bend.

While passenger train No. of the NJ. & P. was discharging freight at the Pacific Creamery. one mile from Tempe yesterday about noon, an alarm was spread among the passengers that they were about to be telescOped by a freight and a wild, mad rush for safety resulted
 When all of the twenty odd pesseng CTS were out of the cars, some coming by way of the windows, the freight ap- peared around the curve in a cloud of dust and stopped with several tele graph poles to spare between the en- zine and the rear car of the passenger.
 Train No. 8 runs between Mesa and Phoenix and is due here at l 30 pm. From Mesa in, the passenger was fol- lowed by a freight which left Mesa shortly after it. Nothing more was seen of the freight till the passenger stopped at the creamery to unload freight It is a combination train and carried about Is or 20 passengers, The track at this point is a new one and consequently very dusty.
 As the freight train suddenly loomed up in a cloud of dust several of the passengers. among them Harry Chand- Ter of Tempe, saw it and spread the alarm. Some of the passengers gave one agonized look out of the windows at the heavy numbering freight tear ing down the track. and rush. ed for the entrance. Others did not wait to look out but at the first cry of alarm climbed over each other to get to the door first. The rear car was quickly emptied, but in the forward combination the door next to the en- zine stuck and few of those in this car cared to run back through the baggage room as that part of the car was toward the Oncoming freight. There was but one thing to do and they did it without wasting any time. The thin ones climbed through the window.
 one of the passengers in this car was Louis Garesche. representative of the Armours. Like the others in the car Garesche admits that he was terri fled. With a friend he made rush for the door, but was unable to open it. His friend called to him to brace him. self back of a seat.
 Brace, nothing" said Garesche. 'Pm
  Mir. Garesche weighs bit over 200 pounds, he got only part way through the window and waited with an agoniz- ed expression on his face for the aw- ful compact. A brakeman with a red flag rushed madly through the train add ing to the excitement, but by the time he was out in the track he found the freight brought to a stand still at comfortable distance from the pas senger.
 As far as known there was none in jured in the scramble. Two gentlemen reported their trousers torn and a little girls dress was ripped. MT. Garesche was one of the unfortunates whose trousers were torn. He was the first to telephone the news to c. NJ Scott, superintendent of the Maricopa and Phoenix road.
 Were you search" asked Mir. Scott.
 Scared" shouted Garesche, you ought to see my trousers"
 When seen last night Mir. Scott said there was absolutely no danger of collision. "There could have been no collision at that point as the freight was ordered to stop at the same place to drop several cars. The country there is open and the freight could be seen a mile away It was only making about 12 or 14 miles an hour, but on account of the dust appeared to be go- ing faster. Engineer DOnnell of the passenger said he saw the freight all of the time. When the freight finally stopped, witnesses said that the two trains were five telegraph poles apart or between 400 and 800 feet Several passengers tore their clothes against wire fence and those were the only casualties"