The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-01-26
C0[u|DES WITH
ROTARY P[OW
Burlington Train Runs into Snow
PlOw in a Binding Snow
Storm at Lubcc.

The Burlington train, No. ~, no
commonly known as the "hoo-doo"
of the Great Northern on account of
the great number of accidents it
has had the past few months, came
to grief again at 4:45 last Sunday
morning when it collided head on
with the rotary snow plow at the
east switch at Lubec, a small sta
tion Is miles east of here, up in
the mountains.
1t was in charge of Conductor
Britton, and was being pulled by a
double header. Engineer Kaiding,
Oh the regular engine and Pete
Gutensohn on the helper A blind
ing snow storm was raging in that
vicinity at the time, to which cause
of the accident is attributed. The
train was not moving at great
rate of speed but being pulled by
two powerful locomotives it struck
pretty hard, demolishing the snow
plow and doing considerable damage
TO the engines. No one was seri-
ously injured except Fireman Nc
Laughlin, who was caught in the ro-
tary end pinned in the wreckage,
receiving two broken legs and was
badly scalded about his body by es-
Gaping steam from bursted pipe.
Engineer Brawley On the rotary had
very narrow escape, but got out of
it with only slight injury to his
leg.
The only damage done to the
train was the bursting in of one
of the ends of the express car. None
of the cars left the track. There
were only a few passengers on the
train and none of them were in
jured.
The wrecker was sent to the
scene as soon as possible, to re-
lieve the situation and clear the
road for traffic, but the storm con-
tinued in its fury and it was impos-
sible to do anything. Traffic was
tied up till Monday afternoon.
The Burlington train was brought
back to Whitefish with the passen-
gers and the injured, and remained
with a number of other delayed
trains until Monday noon when they
were started out again, but were
held up later until late in the even
ing before they got through.
Fireman Mclaughlin is in the
hospital here, and is getting along
as we'll as can be expected consid-
ering his injuries. He is very
gritty young man, and every hope is
entertained for his recovery, but it
will take some time, because he has
some bad burns and they will take
long time to heal. Monday morn
ing the report got out, and was be-
ing freely circulated, that he was
dead, but there was nothing to that.
That afternoon after having his
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comfortably and was very much
live man.
Express Messenger Williams had
rather comical thing happen in
his car sin the collision. When the
trains came together he jumped be-
hind the through safe in order to
protect himself from the falling
trunks. In the front end of the car
he had high pile of fish boxes,
and Oil the floor along side of them
was a crate containing a big red
rooster. The fish boxes toppled
over and smashed the crate and lib
Grated the rooster without the
least injury, which seemed like a
miracle. When Williams extricated
himself he found Mr.. Rooster
perched on the highest point of the
wreckage Growing as Justify as if
he was at home in his own barn
yard. He was very sociable sort
of chap and when Williams went
to catch him he flew right into his
arms. In order that he should not
wander off Williams picketed him
in the back end of the car and
brought him back to Whitefish
where he was put in a new crate
and sent to his destination, Great
alls.