Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-11-12
WRECK KILLED ten
NORTH OF SPOKANE ABOUT
TWENTY MILES.
Loaded Freight Trains Going Down Hill
Meet in Head-on Collision-Most of
the Victims Lived at Hillyard-Both
Train Crews Gone-Train Took Fire
Traffic Blocked for As Hours.

Spokane, Nov. 7-Ordered to pass the
'fapple extra at Milan, Wash, train
No. 451 plowed on through yesterday
mornings early darkness, a bare hour
or two before the Sabbath sun had
arisen. Fifteen minutes later, and
F451" and the "apple extra were
ground into kindling wood, eight lives
were snuffed out, four men manned and
several hundred thousand dollars worth
of property destroyed, one of the most
disastrous freight wrecks in the history
of the Great Northern road.
Around an easterly sloping curve of
a side hill about two miles east of Chat
taroy, Wash, Is miles east of Spokane,
the two mighty consolidated engines
crashed together. Both were pulling
heavily loaded trains of freight cars,
and both were on the down grade at
terrific rate of speed, estimated by the
crew survivors at 40 miles an hour. The
collision happened to occur at almost
where one down grade ends and an up
grade begins, so that both engineers
were giving their big steel horses their
heads for a good start for the long up
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every condition to make the impact and
its consequences terribly disastrous.
Traffic on the main line of the Great
Northern will have been suspended from
40 to 4s hours by the time the wreckage
is removed, and the line is not expected
to be cleared before tonight.
The known dead:
| H. l.. Hepburn, Hillyard, engineer
train No. 451, body recovered.
John Blanchard, Hillyard, fireman
train No. 451, body recovered.
Joe Keefe, Hillyard, conductor train
No. 451, body not recovered.
Allen Glass, Hillyard, engineer apple
extra, body not recovered.
E. B. Mcintyre, Hillyard, brakeman
4, apple extra, body not recovered.
Unknown man, train No. 451, charre(
remains removed from fire.
Two unknown boys, train No. 451
charred remains removed from fire.
a The injured:
s'Scotty' Dempster, 43O Grant street
e Spokane, apple extra, right shoulder dis
l. located.
e - Horsfall, Hillyard, conducto
: apple extra, bruised.
n Charles Bolton, Hillyard, brakema
train No. 451, head slightly cut.
s r. J. Armstrong, Chopaka, B. G
. slightly bruised.
r Running on Fast Schedule.
Train No. 451 was running on its reg
1t ular schedule, westbound The appl
extra was eastbound, running on fas
schedule of five hours between Hillyar(
Wash, and Troy, Mont. Train No. As
- was loaded with paints, automobile
20 some furniture and live stock, most O
Ia the load extremely infammable materia
is and considerably lighter than the appl
lie extra, which carried, besides frui
It heavy loads of grain and lumber.
1t Every man of both train crews tina
happened to be near the front of hi
train is dead One brakeman saved hin
'e self by jumping, but he is injured. Th
= brakemen who happened to be in til
"a rear of their trains escaped with mine
A. injuries. Conductor Horsfall mirac'
to lously escaped.
k The loss to the road in the wreckae
p is almost inestimable. A pile of 10 ca
of train No. 451, damned into the spaC
y of an ordinary living room, caught fiji
&c immediately, and were speedily reduce
n to a smoking mass of wood and tangle
- writhing steel. This mass was burnir
,d at an early hour yesterday before fl
We apparatus, summoned from Spokane,
miles away, could start stream
~ water on the ruins.
"a Beneath this molten pile are Il
a. bodies of three trainmen victims, not 7
covered at a late hour last night.
be The smashup behind the engine
of the apple extra was no less impressiy
he but fortunately did not catch fiji
ur Bursted boxes of apples, piles
Oh shingles, gaping sacks of grain, sp
articles of furniture, charred emp
All cans of paint and oil, twisted trucks
,te automobiles, and other ruined freig
was scattered along the track for 2
ay, yards.