Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1911-11-16

running, Lidgerwood was only the
lfae1lon Of second ahead Of van
Lew and Jefferis. With Bradford
swinging his lantern for Williams and
- fireman to come on. the four men
we're &C the wreck before the cries OF
l1ignt and agony had broken out upon
-1ne awful stiffness following the crash.
ihere was quick work and heart
breaking to be done and, for the first
lew critical minutes, a terrible lack Of
hahds 70 do it. Crawford, the engineer.
was sui in his cab, pinned down by
me coal which had shifted forward at
me shock OF the sudden stop. In the
wreck Of the tender. the ironWork OF
i when was. rammed into shapeless
cFunpllngs by the upreared trucks OF
tne baggage car, lay the fireman, past
/ human help, as hasty side swing OF
Bradford,s lantern showed
Ine baggage car, riding high upon
tne crushed tender. was body whole
/ put the smoker, day coach and sleeper
We're all more or less shattered, with
the smoking car already beginning to
plaze from the broken lamps. 1t was
| q crisis to call out the best In any gift
OF leadership. and Lidgerwood's genius
Tor swift and effective organization
came out strong under the hammer
/ blow OF the occasion.
Stay here with Bradford and JEFF
| ferls and get that engineer outp' he
| called to Van Lew. Then. with arms
| outspread. he charged down upon the
trans company. escaping as it could
through the broken windows of the
cars This way, every man OF your
ne yelled. his shout dominating the
cIamor OF cries, crashing glass and
Missing steam. 1.-THE fires what we've
got TO fight! Line up down to the river
and pass water in anything you can
get hold of. Here. Groner''-to the
train conductor, who was picking him
self up out of the ditch into which the
shock had thrown him-..send some
body 20 the Pullman for blankets.
Jump for 1t, man, before this fire gets
headWayr'
Luckily there were by this time
plenty OF willing hands to help. The
Timanyoni is a mans country. and
there were few women In the trains
passenger List. Quickly line was
formed to the nearby margin Of the
river. and water, IN hats. in buckets
improvised out Of pieces of tin torn
from the wrecked car roofs, in satu
rated coats, cushion covers and Pull
man blankets Kissed upon the fire
beat it down and presently extin-
guished it.
Then the work OF extricating the i'm
prisoned ones began. light for it be.
Ing obtained BY the backing of VII.
liams' engine to the main line above
the switch 50 that the headlight played
upon the scene.
L1dgerWood was fairly In the thick
Of the rescue work when Miss Brew
ster, walking down the track from the
service car and bringing the two young
women, who were afraid to be left be
hind, launched herself and her com
panions into the midst OF the nerve
IdehluS nOFIOF-
Give US something to do she com
manded when he would have sent
them back, and he changed his mind
and set them at work binding up
wounds and caring for the injured
quite as If they had been trained
nurses sent from heaven at the oppor
tune moment
In very little time the length and
breadth of the disaster were fully
known and its consequences alleviated
50 far as they might be with the
means at hand. There were three
killed outright In the smoker, two IN
the half filed day coach and none in
the sleeper. six in all, including the
fireman pinned beneath the wreck Of
the tender Crawford, the engineer.
was dug out OF his coal covered grave
By Van Lew and Jefferis badly burned
and bruised. but still living. and there
were a score OF other woundings
more or less dreadful
Red Butte was the nearest point
from which q relief train could be
sent. and LfdgerWood promptly cut
the telegraph wire. connected his
pocket set OF instruments and sent IN
the call for help. That done he trans
ferred the pocket relay to the other
end Of the cut wire and called up the
night dispatcher at Angels. Fortu
nately McCloskey and Dawson We're
just In with the two wrecking trains
from the CrossWater hills. and the su-
perintendent ordered Dawson to come ]
out Immediately with his train and q
fresh crew II it could be obtained
Dawson took theSwire and replied 10
person. His crew was good for an
other tussle. he said. and his train
was still il readiness. He would start
west at once or the moment the dis
patcher could clear for him and would
be at Silver Switch as soon as the 70. ]
teryening miles would permit
CHAPTER Xxx.
THE CHALLENGE.