The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-11-23

G @. What made you think of tn
wreck?
A. When I was raking hay tn
first suspicion came into my head.
Q. What made it come into you
head?
4 A. I do not know. I had it figure
2 about the apple wreck that happene'
at Trenton at the switch and my min'
came to me that if a wreck like tina
would happen near here I would hav'
a chance to get some apples.
@. That was at Todd?
A. Yes.
@. Did you think about it any
more that a. m.
A. Yes.
Q. Then after No. 8 passed you
went up there?
A. Then I drove my team up to
the barn then l went up to the track.
@. What time did you go to the
track?
A. Right after No. 8 went, just
getting dark.
@. Do you know what time it was?
A. About one half hour after No.
8 went down the track.
@. What did you take with you?
A. Nothing.
@. Where did you get the wrench?
A. It was a wrench we were
using. I got it from a pile of logs
near the barn.
O. What kind of a wrench was
it?
A. 1t was a piece of a monkey
wrench
O. Where did you go after that?
A. I took the wrench and went
to the railroad track, and l went to
the switch. When I got to the switch
I took the wrench and got the cotter
kew out and hammered the bolt with
the wrench and then | took the nut
off with the wrench and with my
hands and took the bolt out and
hammered it down and throwed it
into the brush.
O. You run down the bank, how
far?
A. / could not tell you.
O. $50 or 200 feet from the
A. I could not exactly say.
figured it was possibly $50 feet and
it may not have been over 100 feet
and l threw one first and then the
other.
@. Then what did you do?
A. | went back to the switch and
vent down the track toward the sta
Die. When I got down to the stable
hid the wrench. I hid it at the g,
outh end of the stable. !
@. The wrench is still there?
A. I buried it and I guess it is v
till there.
@. Was that all the tools you had? j
A. Yes. n
Q. Then what did you do? k
A. I went back to the shack. g
@. What did you do? III
A. ] ate supper. d
A. Then what?
A. Smoked, I guess.
@. Then what did you do?
A. I got a sack of oats ready to n
Ike UP to the stable and feed the
orses.
@. Then where did you go? "
A. I went up to the track with h.
father with a sack and a lantern.
e was in the barn feeding the horses
hen the skidoo came down.
Q. You went up to the track? IT
A. Yes, we went up past the
witch and past the crossing with the
intern and picked up coal and went ~
,wn the path and went down to the
lack.
@. What occurred before you got
to the shack? ~,
A. Before we got down to the
Jack we heard this loud noise of
cam. I could not realize that !;
mount of wreck could make so little
noise. w
@. You knew what had happened? =,
A. Yes, the train was wrecked. :,
@. What did you do then?
A. We went to the shack. ~
O. Then what did you do?
A. We went back to the track,
IS, where the engine was turned
yer. T
@. Who did you see there? -,
A. We met the frman, BRAKEMAN -
Id conductor. -
Q. Did you talk to him and what Z
d you say? ~
A. l asked them what had hap
ened, and the fireman said, 1--WE A.
I'd a spill" W
Q. Tell us what happened?
A. And the fireman spoke up and ho
id, 1--WE had a spill" and I waited IT,
II Pas conversation and we asked ~
e conductor if there was anyone -
lrt and killed and we walked up to Co
e engine. 20
Q. What did he say? :,
A. He said there were two in
ere, the head breakman and engi- -,
err.