Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-09-28
BURLINGTON LINE CARS
PLUNGE INTO RAGING
TORRENT IN WYOMING
One Passenger Coach Swept
Into Platte River-B0dies
Are Not Yet Recovered
SNOW FOLLOWS RAIN
70 Persons Missing, is Report
Entire Train Slips Into
Water After Wreck


CASPER. wyo.. Sept. zS fBy The
Associated Press )-The loss OF life
late last night when Chicago. Bur-
hngton and Quincv PASSENGER train
No. 80 went through a bridge over
Cole creek, fourteen miles east of
here, is estimated at approximately
forty persons. The stream, ordfna-
rily dry during the summer, was
swollen into a raging torrent by
heavy rains of yesterday ana the
roar Of rushing water over the
coaches could be heard three miles.
One passenger coach was swept
one hundred yards into the Platte
river. which at that point Is more
than a mile wide. It is believed that
no passengers in that coach were
saved because by the time rescuers
could have given aid the coach had
rolled over on its side and become
completely submerged.
1t is believed that II viii be twen-
ty-four hours or more before many
bodies can be taken from the sub<
merged cars. Most of those drowned
may have been washed 6ut OF -fffE
cars because of the terrific current
of the stream.
Although one of the ligatest tic
by the Burlington Railroad, It war
believed that the final list of per-
sons aboard the train would show
possibly seventy persons missing.
A trackwalker had inspected the
culvert over Cole Creek less than en-
hour before the passenger train was
due. He reported everything all
right. although the stream was ris-
ing.
About 9:10 P. NJ. the Denver train
swept around a curve and plunged
into the stream. Apparently the To-
eomotiVe got clear across the culvert
before it gave way under the load
of the heavy train. Then the engine
slipped back into the water, and
both engineer and fireman were kill
ed.
Estimates of the number of per-
sons who lost their lives differed at
o'clock this morning the lowest
figures placed the dead at forty. A
railroad telegraph operator at Glen
Rock. near the scene of the wreck,
and who assisted in the rescue work,
said he thought the death list might
mount to 100.
All rescue work had to be tenn
! porarily abandoned at o'clock this
morning. II DeBan showing about
that hour after "a hours of continu-
Gus rainfall. No bodies had been re-
covered at daylight.
The scene of the wreck IS about
fourteen miles east of Casper about
two miles west OF the Big Muddy
oil field and about seven miles east
of Glenroek. The next f1agsIop for
the train across the culvert through
which it plunged into Cole creek.
is Lockett.
1t is sandy rolling type OF coun-
| try and is barely a stones throw
from the railroad tracks where Cole
creeF empties into the larger stream
! No bodies have been recovered
from the wreck because OF the con-
stantly rising water.
4 It was still raining early this
morning. One sleeper was left on
the track where it had been derail-
| ed on the brink of the stream.
| Occupants were sleeping in the car.
Aside from two dim railroad arc
| lights. there was not light visible
at the scene of the wreck. and It
was difficult to distinguish the To-
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