The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-08-04
TRAIN CRASH MAINS SCORES.
licad-On Collision on Spokane and
Inland Results In E'atalitics-
Homes Into Hospitals.

SPOKANE, Wash. July 31.--1n
head-on collision at Lacrosse, a milo
west of Occur d'Alene, Idaho, at $50
this afternoon two electric passenger
trains were wrecked. The latest re-
ports indicate Il to Is killed and 60
to 20 injured The Occur d'Alcne hos
pital is damned with the injured.
The dead bodies of 10 victims of the
terrible wreck at La Crosse, Idaho. on
the Spokane and Occur d'Alcnc branch
of the Spokane and Inland railway are
lying on improvised cots in the Occur
a. Alene hospital or in the homes Of
people at Caldwell. About 60 were in
jurcd, being crowded into the hos
pital and being cared for by the resi-
dents in the vicinity of the disaster.
1t Is believed that some of the injured
will die.
Doctors from Spokane and Occur
dAlenc have gone to the scene and
citizens of Occur d'Alenc are assisting
in caring for the injured. Automo-
bilcs are bringing some of the injured
and dead to Spokane and wagons are
performing a similar service.
Number 90, westbound had just got
at ABB o'clock and had reached Cald-
we'll when 1t met No. 5, eastbound.
The impact of the two trains was ter
rife, as they were going Is miles an
hour and met without warning The
heavily laden passenger coaches were
crushed and shattered. Men and
women were thrown from the seats in
all directions, many being crushed in
the shattered timbers of the cars.
Uninjured passengers at once hur-
red to telephones. and calls for aid
were sent out. Az soon as help ar
rived and the citizens began caring for
the injured and the dead, private
homes being turned into temporary
morgues and hopsitals, and are await
ing the arrival of special train from
Spokane.
1t is said the eastbound did not take
is incomprehcnsiblc why the motor
men did not avoid the accident as it
occurred on straight track. The
motorman of the westbound is among
the dead.
The list of dead and injured in the
Occur d'Alcnc wreck are:
Dead: William Ward, wheat
grower of Wenatchee, Wash. a. +.
Whiglcy Memphis, Tenn; ID. f..
Campbell, motorman, Occur d'Alene;
Orville Puterbaugh. Elkhart, Ind;
John A. Vernic, Springfield, Mo;
Dallie Golden, Spokane: w. A. Dahl
quist, Baskerville, Iowa; j. G. Cox,
Hayden Lake, Idaho; N. j. House.
Scotia, Wash; william Wonsetta, Har-
phis, Tenn; unidentified man and
woman.
The injured are: Mrs. G. A. Lunce-
ford, Miss Frances Golden, John
Bromley, Miss Nettie Jordan. John
Glenn, w. l.. Perry. j. G. Krause. Il
salesman; f. j. Laton. +. J. Miller G.
F. Miller, j. f. Kimomns, Mrs. Wan
gan, g. ID. Wright. Guy Gambeson. W.
F. Wallace. w. f. Shinningo, w. f..
Brown, Ed. James. County Auditor Il.
w. Butler, Pat Loughan and Gus
Schninski. all Of Spokane; +. w. Nit
chell. Lewiston; Ida Beck, William
Beck, Amelia Beck and Edwin l..
Dixon, Northport, Neb.; Al Gordon of
Elgin. ore; Ed. Crell and John j.
Ward, Seattle; Nix l.. Gorhausen,
Marcus. Wash. ID. f.. Jalman, Weston.
ore; j. f. Gibbon Elgin, ore; Charles
Osborne and wife, Freeport, Ill; r. j.
Wilson and f.. f.. Williams Eau
Claire, Wis; j. A. Elkhorn, Tacoma;
Peter NJ. Waters. Pleasant Lake, n.
D.; Gus Benson, Potlatch, Idaho; Neil
Patterson, Greenacre, Wash; c. F.
Meyer, St John, Wash; Ed. Joyce,
Hillyard, Wash; Henry Schurer Clark,
Granor, Mitchell, Mathews, II. G.
Whittlesey, conductor, may live but
condition serious