Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-06-29

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gineer and fireman and one passenger
were instantly killed and between fif-
teen and thirty persons more or less
injured when Santa Fe California
limited passenger train, west bound,
crashed through a burning bridge two
and one half miles west of Manila,
Arizona, at S:55 o'clock last night.
The Dead:
ENGINEER CLARENCE CURRAN
OF Winslow.
FIREMAN THOMAS of Winslow.
c. L. PARTRIDGE, passenger of
Redlands, Calf.
The seriously injured:
JOSEPH A. REYNOLDS, Harvey
news agent, Albuquerque.
w. KLOCKER, Los Angeles.
b. f. TAYLOR, Los Angeles.
j. b. DAME, Pasadena.
F. ]. CRUICKSHANK, San Marcial,
n NJ.
d. NJ. SABREE.
ALBERT SPAULDING.
l.. w. PAYNE.
+. GRIEGER.
The injured. who required medical
and taken to the Santa Fe hospital,
where they were treated. 1t Is stated
that none of them were badly hurt
and they will be able to resume their
journeys in day or two.
The train was running at a speed
between forty and fifty miles an hour
and had just rounded a curve when
it struck the bridge, a small structure
spanning a ditch six feet wide. The
burning structure gave way under the
weight of the engine. The engine, mail
and baggage car and the buffet car
crashed through TO the bottom of the
ravine, the three cars piling up on top
of the locomotive and burying the
engineer and firemen beneath the
Wreckage. The passenger coaches did
not leave the track.
Engineer Curran and Fireman
Thomas were probably instantly killed
and their bodies were eXtricated from
the mass of wreckage after hard la
Dor. Partridge was in the buffet car
and was badly crushed, dying in a
few minutes The mail clerks and the
baggagemen We're all injured, but al
most miraculously escaped death.
their cars being completely wrecked.
The occupants of the coaches and
Pullman cars were Jared and a num-
Der sustained bruises and minor In
juries, but none was seriously hurt.
For time fire from the burning
bridge threatened to set fire to the
wreckage, but the flames were ex-
tinguished by the train crew and pas
sengers, before they had secured a
good start The mail and baggage was
considerably damaged but was not
burned.
First reports received stated that
six had been killed and thirty injured,
but il was later ascertained that only
three had met their deaths in the
wreck and probably twenty had been
injured OF this number only ten
were hurt seriously enough to require
medical treatment and they were
brought here on a relief train and sent
to the hospital.
The three coaches which remained
on the track were pulled back to Hol-
brook i'm charge Of Conductor Frost
of Albuquerque to await here until
the track is cleared which will prob
ably be sometime this afternoon, It
being necessary to clear the wreckage
from the raYine and 70 reconstruct
the bridge.
II is reported here that a member
of the train crew is reported missing
but this report could not be verified.
Joseph \. Reynolds, the news agent
reported injured in the wreck OF the
limited near Manila. resides with his
family at 319 North Fourth street
The extent Of his injuries are not
known here, one report stating that
one leg had been crushed and other
reports stating that he had suffered a
broken shoulder blade and a sprained
ankle. Mrs. Reynolds stated this aft
ernoon that she had received tele-
gram this morning saying her hus-
band had been only 81 ghtly hurt, bis
injuries consisting of a sprained ankle
and an injured arm. He is expected