The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-03

cross alone. The baggage was also
carried in wagons, the transfer re-
curing about four hours. No. re. !
turned to Chadron and No. to Nor
folk. arriving in the city about $3.50
last night. on board were a number
Of passengers who assisted In the
work OF rescue. Rev. Mr.. Pfeffer, q
German minister from Fremont was
among them. Horrible Is inadequate
TO describe IT," he said. Every bone
in some OF the bodies recovered SEEM
ed to be broken or crushed. Great
pieces OF muscle were torn from some
of the victims The head OF Engineer
Graham was cut off and parts OF the
brain and skull strewn over the
ground"
Before daylight Saturday morning
the wreckage had been cleared away.
Train No. 6 Saturday was delayed
three hours.
The wreck was the worst that has
ever occurred on the Nebraska &
Wyoming division OF the Northwestern
railroad.
The shock OF the wreck, with all its
frightful horrors has cast a cloud OF
deepest gloom over the people OF
Chadron. The families OF the train
men who persisted were overcome by
the tragic news.
Two Engines Turn over.
The train, an eastbound regular
freight from Deadwood, was being
drawn by two locomotives, No. 229
and No. 8. When the engines struck
spot where the track had been
washed out by a heavy rain, both
steel monsters turned completely over
Death Was Slow.
Death came terribly to the victims
who persisted in the wreck The three
trainmen who had died at their posts
were removed from the mass OF scrap
iron into which the locomotives had
been transformed, just as soon as
those who survived were able to get
to the rescue. The injured men were
cared for as quickly as possible.
From underneath the wreck were
taken seven tramps' bodies.
colored Tramp Unhurt.
There were eleven tramps stealing
ride on the trucks of the wrecked
train at the time it went into the wash
out. Eleven Of these were white men
one colored. The negro was the only
man of the twelve tramps who escaped
without scratch.
The colored tramp was frightened
but not enough to prevent his giving
a clear story. He told of the Other
men who were riding on the
bumpers and gave the information
that there were still men under
the train who had not been accounted
for.
Wreck Occurs Near Clinton, Neb.
The accident occurred at poin
two and half miles east Of Clinton
Neb. Clinton is the first station ives
of Gordon.
Clinton is eight miles from tele
graph office, so that there was SOM
delay in getting word to headquarter
Of the wreck.
Hail Caused the Wash-out.
During the forepart Of the nigh
there had been a very heavy rain an
hail storm between Rushville an
Gordon.
The hail had been heaped up in
drift four feet deep at the mouth of
;. culvert which serves to carry waite
under the track.
! The hail, completely damming tn
i mouth of this culvert, forced the foo
D waters to rush across the track, unde
! mining the roadbed and taking oil
i the rails.
And into this hole plunged the tw
locomotives which were feeling the
l. way through darkness and storm 1
the head of train 116.
), Passenger Train Close Behind.
= A still more disastrous tragedy we
L only narrowly averted. 1t chance
that the freight train was runnin
:. Just ahead of eastbound Deadwoo
l. Chicago passenger train No. 6.
:. the passenger train had been in tt
3 lead it seems probable that MUG
n longer deathlist might have resulte
s. Passengers were transferred arour
S the wreck between eastbound passe
n ger train No. 6 and westbound pa
e senger train No. 5. Then these tv
o passenger trains backed up, eat
II covering the others route.
s An extra No. was made up
N Long Pine, leaving there on schedul
"a The train from the wreck was sche
Ie uled to reach Norfolk at p. m. F.
E. day evening.
y On Black Hills Division.
IL The wreck occurred on the Bla'
Hills division of the Northwestern,
d. which Chadron is the headquarters.
Ig