Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1911-02-24
{. P. PASSENGER TRAIN
NO. 10 WRECKED


Of the SouthernPacific was wrecked
by a broken rail about two miles
west of Palisade. injuring about
% of the passengers. The injured
were:
George Giddley hotel keeper,
Caro-. Mich; Commissions on right
side and chest and abrasions of
right lumbar region.
VIM. Wilson. bridge builder.
San Francisco; larcerations of
scalp and right thigh.
F. M. Gray. farmer. Willoughby,
o: right thigh bruised.
r. L McWilliams, farmer,
Hilland. Cal. Commissions on right
knee.
Cornelius Csongrada, New York;
left shoulder dislocated and severe
bruises on right side and knee.
H. C. Arnold, rilroad clerk, San
Antonio. Texas: Commissions and
la%rceration of left arm and elbow
and slight injuries in left side and
chest.
Mrs. Joseph N%eepham, mani.
curist, Saginaw, Mich; injured in
left side and chest. Not serious.
Mrs. Lillian Healner, enroute to
Carlin; severe internal injuries.
Theo Wheeler, Maysville, KY;
glass cut en- face.
Andy Olsen, bridge builder,
Alameda. Cal; cut abut the face.
Jos. Duncan, advance agent of
English Oil syndicate; scalp
larerations and Commissions on
abdomen.
T. H. Smith, Harmer. Mich;
slight injuries to left shoulder.
Mrs Susan Kelly, st. Paul, MINI;
injuries in left side and chest.
Geo. Smith. bruised on neck and
shoulder and larcerations on left
hip and right knee.
Charles Dow, San Francisco;
bruises on right shoulder.
v. Meyer, Chicago; right arm
bruised.
Myron D. Evans. Roseland, Neb.;
slight contusions of scalp.
Chas E. Devanon, Burkett, Ind.
bruises on back and right side.
G. P. Carr. Omaha, Neb.: slight
injuries.
John Chesapeake, slight injuries.
John I%nchauspe, Rock Springs,
Wyo.; slight bruises on head, ribs
and leg.
Geo. Sutherland, cattle buyer,
Reno, New; bruises over neck
and shoulder left hip and right
knee.
c. M. Wilson, negro porter; right
side and hip bruised.
The train was running at a rate
Of about 35 or 40 miles an hour
wheh it hit the curve and one of
the center cars left thl rack
pulling with ii the chair car, diner
and four ether sleeping cars. The
engine, mail and baggage cars in
front and the last Pullman stayed
with the rail. One tourist rar was
turned bottom side up and the
other cars were thrown OF, their
sides at a distane of about SO or 81
feet from the track, and about 100
yards of the track was torn up. 1t
was a mirac lie that NO OF C was
killed.
Immediately after the wreck the
engine vas uncoupled and ent on
t. Palisade and ten minutes after
the accident the dispatchcrs in
Carlin and Sparks were sending
out the wreck trains.
The Elko doctors, Hood, West,
Ely and Mcdowell were sent for
and went to Carlin on No. 0 and
were taken from there TO the
wreck where they attended 10 the
injured.
The relief train from Carlin
brought most of the il jureud
passengers to Elko, afew sta ling in
Carlin, and arrived here alout 12
o'clock. They were taken 10 the
Boiling hospital and the Commercial
hotel, and this morning No 2,
which was made up at Garlic. took
them on to Ogden. Doctor West and
Miss Wickland, of the Boiling
hospital accompanying them.
Only two of the passengers we're
seriously injured, Geo. Gidley, of
Caro-. Mich; and Mrs. Lillian
Heabner who was enroute to
Carlin. the Others pscappd with