The Mena weekly star., 1908-10-01
WRECK KILLS MANY
TWENTY-TWo KILLED AND il SEE. RioUsLY INJURED IN NORTH
 ERIN PACIFIC COLLISION.
TRAINS MEET IN SEVERE SNOW STORM
Mail and Baggage Cars, Smoker and Day Coach Were Telescoped When Passenger Train Rain Into Freight Many of Seriously Injured Will Die
 Burlington Cars on Foreign Track.

Livingston, Mont, Sept. 27.-Bur. lington Passenger Train No. Is, run. ming on the Northern Pacific tracks, which left Livingston eastbound at 5:05 Friday morning, met westbound freight train in an head-on collision at Young's Point, siding about S8 miles east of here, during a blinding snow storm. Fireman Babcoclk of the passenger train and Fireman Tom Phillips of the freight, both of Liv. ingston, and Head Brakeman Milo Halloway of Billings and 19 passer. gers were killed outright, and Il other passengers and the two engineers. the mail clerks and baggagemen on the passenger were seriously injured. Most of the II are seriously injured and will probably die
 The freight which was an extra westbound in charge of Conductor Hickey, was heading at the east end of the siding on short time when the passenger train, running head-on into the blinding snowstorm, struck them On account of the storm neither train had any warning, and the passenger struck the freight engine full in the side, telescoping the mail, baggage cars, smoker, crushing the day coach and pining the passengers and train. men beneath the splintered wreck of engines. passenger and freight cars The scene ensuing is described as ter. rible. cries of the injured and dying met the rescuers at every turn and although heroic efforts were made by the survivors to rescue those caught in the wreckage, several of the vic. tins are supposed to be buried under. meath the debris.
 A heavy wet snow which was fall ing at the time prevented the wreck from catching fire, and undoubtedly held the death list down to the figures given. Every effort is being made by the division forces, aided by volun. teers from Livingston and Billings to clear the wreck and so far they are able to prevent further loss of life. Little can be done toward the res cuing of the buried victims until the wrecking trains arrive.
 Spokane. Wash, Sept 27-A special to the Chronicle from Park City, Mont, says that 30 to 40 people were killed and injured in the Burlington train number Is which left Spokane Friday morning over the Northern Pa cific railroad and was wrecked in a head4on collision with a freight train, four miles west of Park City, at eight o'clock Friday. The wreck occurred at Young's Point switch where the trains were to pass. A light snow was falling and the trains were so close that the freight fagman failed to signal the passenger in time to pre- vent smashup. The express car telescoped with the smoker and ma jority of the fatalities and injuries were in this car. The express car was raised over the platform of the smoker. the superstructure sweeping the seats, and not passenger in this car escaped death or injury. The oth- CT passengers escaped with cuts and bruises.
 The scenes around the smoker are horrible, heads, bodies, legs and arms being interwoven with broken seats and equipment. In one place seven bodies are so tightly wedged together that they were only separated With difficulty. It was almost impossible to succor the injured without trampling on the dead.