The Ely miner., 1910-11-11
MONTEv|DEO WRECK:
FIVE STOCKMEN ARE KILLED.
AND TWO MORE MAY DIE
FROM INJURIES.
WAS RUNNING IN FOUR SECTIONS
Passenger Section coIIides With Cattle
Special.-Accident Is Blamed to
Glare of Electric Lights in the
Stockyards.

Montevideo.-Five men were in
stantly killed, two were perhaps
fatally injured, an engineer and fire.
man severely hurt and a score of
others badly shaken up and bruised in
wreck which occurred here between
two sections of train number six on
the Hastings and Dakota division of
the Milwaukee road Three carloads
of livestock were incinerated, and a
caboose and half dozen cars of the
freight train were either burned or
smashed to splinters. The locomo-
tive was also destroyed.
The Dead.
WILLIAM B. HILL, Miles City,
Montana.
THOMAS HILL, son of w. B. Hill,
Miles City, Montana.
GEORGE LEPER, Hosner, S. D.
]. DECHTEE, Greenway, S. d.
HERMAN RAHFELD, Aberdeen.
Seriously injured, now in Monte
video hospital
George Rahseld, Aberdeen, S. D.,
stockman, caught in burning caboose,
rescued by firemen. Possibly fatally
burned
William Borning, Miles City, Mont,
stockman, caught in burning caboose.
Burns very serious, will probably die
G. Parker, Montevideo, engineer of
passenger train, hurt in jumping.
Stickler, Montevideo, fireman of
passenger train, hurt in jumping.
Train No. is the regular night
passenger ira: from the West, which
enters Montevideo at 5:45 a. m. daily.
On account of the heavy traffic the
train was run in four sections, the
first being the regular Aberdeen pass
anger, the next two sections being
special stock trains, run on passenger
time, and the last section being the
heavy Butte passenger train.
First Section on Time.
The first section reached here at
5:45, exactly on time. 1t was closely
followed by the second section, but
the third section was slightly delayed,
Just as this second stock train was
backing into the Montevideo stock
yards, about mile west of here, the
heavy passenger train, which making
up time, was seen to come down the
steep grade at high speed.
1t was too late for the train crew
to stop. Reversing their engine, En-
gineer Parker and Fireman Sticker
leaped for their lives and the passen-
ger train struck the rear end of the
freight train with a deafening crash.
There was a hiss and roar of steam,
and the locomotive of the passenger
dived under the caboose of the freight
train, containing the six ill-fated stock
men. Almost Immediately the caboose
was mass of flames, and the ad-
joining cars began to burn.
Mingled with the cries of the i'm
prisoned stockmen in the burning ca
booSe were the cries of several hun
dred head of cattle which were being
lncincrated in the stock cars. Terri
fed passengers who had been thrown
from their seats by the impact of
the collision came up to the wreck and
with axes made an opening in the
blazing caboose through which the two
stockmen, Rabseld and Borning, were
rescued. The others had already been
overcome By the flames and when the
rescuers re .ched them their bodies
were blackened and charred
The train crew attributes the acci-
dent to the electric lights in the stock
yards here, the glare of which pre-
vented them from seeing the rear
lights of the stock train until it was
too late to stop.