The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-02-01
RUNAW Y NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN
CRASHES INTO REAR OF PASSENGER
0NG.N. WITH TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES


Belnngnaln, wash, req.
Six persons were killed outright
or died Of their injuries and thlr-
teen more are in hospitals, ser
iofisly injured, at Sedro- Woolcy,
80 miles south Of here, as the re-
suit of q runaway Northern Paci-
fic freight train crashing into a
coach Of a Great Northern pass
cnger train which was standing
on the crossing of the two lines at
Sedro.Wooley at $40 o'clock today.
The Dead. ~
The dead are: .-,..
c. r. Patten, of McMurray, Wash,
manager OF the Atlas Lumber com
pany OF Seattle. -...|
Henry Thompson, BirdsveW, COM
missioner Of Skagit county.
V. V. Schumacher Portland, lee
turer. fH
Melvin Best, Kent, Wash.
G. G. Clifford, Seattle.
One unidentified
The Injured.
Partial list OF injured:
Dan Harrlgan, Bellingham, Wash.
Robert Nestos, lumberman, Belling-
ham, Wash.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Pierce Concrete,
Wash ..laI. .a..Es
Mr.. and Mrs. D. B. Cooper, Lyman,
Wash. .... .....r
Fireman Buckholder, OF the freight
train.
Fierce is manager Of a cement COM
pany. 81. ....-..., ... ...-.
The freight train, according to Mar
tin Hall, the engineer, was approach
ing Sedro-Wooley on the long hill
north of the town and because Of slip.
perry rail conditions he was unable to
check his train. Seeing that he could
not bring his train to stop he ap-
piled the emergency brakes, set the
engine in reverse and jumped. He was
uninjured a.. .:
The Wreck
The train, he said, was travelling
about IL miles an hour when it struck
the coach The coach was TANNED
against the passenger station and the
building was wrecked. Employees of
the station escaped injury. 49,: g..
The two railroads cross at Sedro-
W0oley. The Great Northern train
was. the regular Number 20S on the
branch lines, bound from Anacortes to
Rockport. It was standing at the sta
ton while the crew transacted the
business there. Nearly every person in
the coach was injured
Two hospitals were taxed to care
for the injured and physicians were
rushed from all nearby towns.
CHILDREN IN SMASH #
Oriental Limited Train Crashes into
s School carryall
Newlson, Mimi, Feb. 1.-Two chill
dren were killed and sixteen others in.
jured, three seriously, Thursday when
Great Northern Passenger Train NO.
1, known as the Oriental Limited
crashed into school bus at rail-
road crossing here. The train stopped
the injured placed in a coach and TAX
en- to d hospital at Alexandria, seven
miles west of here, where they are
being cared for
Elsie Erickson and Edna Seeley,
both twelve years old. were instantly
killed A fractured skull in each case
caused death. Rose Stranburg, IL
years old, and Elenora Nelson, IS
years old, are the most seriously in
jured, They are suffering from con
cussio NOT the brain. Frank Seeley has
a fractured right leg and severe bruis-
es The others including Swan Mel.
son, the driver, received cuts and
bruises but none is in q serious condi-
ton. > &., %-sa
The accident occurred when the
bus was on the return trip from the
Nelson consolidated school, two miles
from this place. The bus driver said
that he supposed the Oriental Limit
ed had passed. as would have been
the case if 1t had not been forty-fivc
minutes late. He said he had driven
across the track before he noticed the
approaching train. The engine struck
the rear end of the bus, hurting it into
the air and leaving it in a heap at
the side Of the road.