Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-26
NINETEEN DEAD;
OTHERS FATALLY
HURT IN WRECK
is WORST IN HISTORY OF THE
NORTHERN PACIFIC
PASSENGER FLYER coLLlDEs
WITH FREIGHT TRAIN
Engineer Falls to See Signals Because
Of Binding snowstorm-only
Three In Smoker Escape
Alive
rny Associated Press.1

y n worst wreck in the history oI lhe
~ Northern Pacific railroad nine
teen persons were killed, eleven seri-
ously injured, several fatally, ana
about thirty more or less injured in
collision between passenger train NO.
16, known as the eastbound Burlington
Flyer, and a westbound freight train at
$40 o'clock this morning at siding
known as Youngs Point, about thirty
miles west of Billings.
The fast travelling passenger train
crashed into the freight just entering
on the siding during binding snow
storm, the engineer Of the passenger
failing to see the signal flag of the
brakeman of the freight train In time
to avert the crash
The passenger train, which was run
ming about fifty miles an hour crashed
into the freight wrecking both loco
motives and telescoping the smoker
and baggage car. The smoker was re-
duced to kindling wood and only three
persons riding therein are known to
have got out of the wrecked car alive.
Many of the killed were terribly man
gled, some of them being ground to
bits.
When the relief train reached the
wreck the scene was one OF most
heartrending nature. Many volunteers
were engaged in taking the bleeding
forms from underneath the wrecked
cars. The groans of the injured ana
dying were most terrible. On the relief
train were DR.. Watkins and his assist
ant from Billings and several nurses,
and at Park City and Laurel a num-
ber of other physicians got on the train.
Everything possible was furnished the
injured and everything possible done 10
save the lives OF those who were dying.
The cold, damp. snow weather uiu ,n mot
~ faFfO
farmers living near rendered, their SER
vices. supplying clothing and blankets
and received many of the injured into
their homes.
IN express car telescoped the smoker,
and a majority of the fatalities ana IN
juries were in this car. The express
car was raised over the platform or
the smoker and the superstructure,
sweeping the seats of passengers.
MOT a passenger In this car escaped
death or injury. The other passengers
escaped with cuts and bruises.
on the train was the Spokane dele
cation to the National Irrigation con-
gress at Albuquerque, N. M. None OF
these was injured.
Fjreman Ora Babcock jumped and
was killed, striking his head on a ran.
Milo Harlow, head brakeman OF the
Billings train, was killed.
Dead and Injured
The scenes around the smoker are
horrible. heads, bodies, legs and arms
being interviewer with broken seats
and equipment.
In one place seven poules We're ~
tightly wedged together that they were
only separated with difficulty. 1t was
almost impossible to succor the injured
without trampling on the dead.
"A list of the dead and wounded fol-
lows:
COLONEL HODSON of Utah.
John PAULAS, Billings.
ROBERT ANDERSON. Hardin, Mont
IORENZ A. STEWART, Dean. Mont
III. G. GEMBLE, limestone. Iowa.
E. L. DYMACK, Denver.
d. III. BARNES, Seattle.
q. M. KONSICK, Anaconda.
ORA BABCOCK, fireman. Billings
S. CHINGDON, Chicoro springs
CHARLES r. JOHNSON. Denver,
district passenger agent Nickel Plate
GEoRGE BANTELRoCK, Anaconda.
JOHN RYAN. Gushing, Okla.
MILO I1ALLOWAY. Billings.
- SICHEMRAM, ADDRESS uhknoW4' no " ~
THREE UNIDENTIFIED COAL
MINERS. en- route from Anaconda to
r. : <. VffCKARs, Billings.
The injured: -, -
sam Slomanitz. Billings; both legs
broken.
John Wagner, Coleman, Alberta; leg
broken, internal injuries.
r. w. Shark, Red Lodge. MONT oao
bruises.
Anton Rughick. riding from Helena to
Newark, N. j.; arm broken.
Benjamin Sydney, Pasco.' WASH;
legs broken. 80, -.
B. r. Vickers, Helena; both legs
broken, internal injuries.
S. T. Marchington, Findley' Moht.'
internal injuries.
John Burke, Boston; legs broken ana
back hurt.
Susan Cordea, Flathead Indian mis-
sion; back injured.
l.. e. Cordea, Flathead indian mis-
sion; head cut, shoulder and back hurt.
John Cordea, Flathead Indian MIS-
sion; head cut.
Small boy, arm and back cut.
Sam Slowmitz, address unknowni
both legs broken, internal injuries; the
only one in the smoker who escaped
Z with his life.
Anton Rowcitz. Helena; both arms
broken, internal injuries.
Ban s. Westerly, address unknown;
VIII die.
Dan. Sicour, coal miner, Coldwater'
Ala; bruises.
Fletcher Dwyer, Mount Carmel, Ill;
internal INJURIES