Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-04-15
WRECK AT SPOKANE
PASSENGER TRAINS met in
CITY LIMITS.
Several Persons Killed and Many In
jured While Engines Pile Up-Trains
Fall Forty Feet From Trestle-In-
jured Were Mostly in Smoking Car
Mistake in Orders.


Lee Gray, Lamont, Wash, both legs
broken.
Maur Chiquolet, compound fracture
of right leg.
R. G. Brown, 667 E. Twenty-frst
street, Portland, leg bruised.
R. NJ. Bates, Centralia, cut about
both eyes and leg bruised.
M. C. Clark, Portland, ankle sprained
and body bruised.
Frank Mccall, laborer, Cheney, leg
broken.
M. Kenney, Cheney, head cut and
both legs crushed.
Swan Johnson, Duluth, MINI, para
lyzed from waist down.
Joe Bell, right leg broken.
Boge Collier, both legs broken and in
ternal injuries.
o. K. Hill, Lamont, head cut and
bruised.
Jim Crabbe, 93315 Main avenue, spo-
kane, both legs crushed.
Paul Segalia, leg broken.
John G. Blake, 922 Riverside avenue,
engineer No. 2, skull fractured.
Mail Weigher, name unknown, Van
couver.
Mail Clerk Fisher, Train No. 2, inter.
nal injuries.
j. Fred Fisher, Portland
Ed Tinan, Portland, engineer No. 2,
skull fractured; will die.
Mahlen Zearfost, Hillyard, fireman,
hips and body crushed.
James Carter, Portland, hand crushed.
Spokane, April 10.-With a crash
which could be heard for half a mine,
two heavy passenger trains on the Spo-
kane, Portland & Seattle railway came
together on the Northern Pacific tres
tie at Seventh avenue in the southwest
ern part of the city, shortly after
o'clock Saturday night, and as result
the hospitals are filed with manned
trainmen and passengers, several of
whom are thought to. be fatally injured.
When the trains met No. 3, the west
bound, was just pulling past the, switch
at the trestle. The train was drawn
by two of the powerful engines used in
the passenger service. The eastbound
train was running over the trestle at a
rate which trainmen stated was far
greater than the rules permit, and when
the engine crew on the latter saw a
smash was inevitable both the engineer
and fireman jumped from the cab, strik-
ing the embankment at the west end of
the trestle.
The engineer, Blake, is believed to
have been fatally injured. The fireman
was badly shaken up and bruised, but
1t is not believed he sustained any bro.
ken bones.
Car Drops Forty Feet.
When the smash came the mail car
on the eastbound train was thrown
clear OF its trucks and toppled from the
trestle to the ground below, about forty
feet In the car were the clerk and the
Neither of the men is believed to
have been fatally injured, and this is
one OF the miracles of the accident.
The interior of the car was mass
OF kindling wood, and it was with diff
Guilty that the men were extricated.
1t was in the smoking car that the
majority of the injuries were sustained |
Pandemonium reigned in the car. and
the shrieks of the manned could he
heard above the roar of the ESCAPING
steam.
The lights in the car were all but ont
the electric wires having been short.
after the train left Marshall
junction. The men in the car were
almost In total darkness when the crash
came, and it was not until the lanterns
were brought that the full extent of
the disaster was learned.
The passengers in the car were ninnad
beneath piles of wreckage. The entire
front end of the car was in snI;ntors
and 1t was only after heroic work on
the part of the train crew and the M.
ice that all were extricated.
The merciful feature of the wreck
was that 1t did not take fire.
1t was evident from an examino+io
u the trestle that had the trains
crashed with slightly increased sneed
Inc trestle would have gone down and
'arrleu three cars of the eastbonnd
train with it. lnU
Orders Are Disobeyed.
1t was learned, that the wreck was
, ,"uSeo by dlsobedience of orders. No