| Show FORTY KILLED IN WRECK NEAR KALIb PELL MONT wild train of vents t freight can into hear 0 1 isee neer fire destruction probably tl e worst wreck in the annals of western railroad lail road ng occurred fifty miles east of kal spell montana saturday morn ag on a steep grade A freight tra n of twenty eight cars which had b loose from two engines crashed into the rear of a passenger tra n wh ie running at a speed of up vaid of seventy miles per hour bi penn P L downs of the road and his son 1 kirk in a private car at the rear of the train were instantly killed in the car di erectly ahead were about fifty railroad laborers and th arty six of these were eitl er instantly killed or incinerated in a fire tl at folio ved the wreck with a roar tl e iun iway train burst around re behin 1 the passenger and what ii moist le jumped a split switch wh ch would have turned it to the s detract and clashed into tl e rear of westbound passenger no near the s d ng at isaack As the runaway thain sped by the switch it struck a caboose and day coach on tl e bid ng them and the fire started from the oil lamps in the caboose tl e point where the wild train dashed into the passenger was several hundred feet away and it was two and a half hours before the flames reached the wreck meanwhile frantic efforts were made to take out the dead and injured the wreck was piled h gh and wedged into almost hopeless confusion and in edite of superhuman extorts the flames burned their way to tl e wrecked cars before the was completed it appears that the wreck was caused by an east bound freight train of twenty eight cars which was at essex and that the head engine w ent forward leaving a helper engine in the rear to hold the train the helper engine beet the air brakes and left the train stand ing on the track and went to coal up conductor matthews as in the office getting orders and both brakemen were with the engineer it is believed that the air leaked and that the train away without the crew knowing about it and dashed down the mountain at a tremendous rate of peed variously estimated at from 75 to miles an hour going down the hill a distance of seventeen mile when it overtook the passenger the train was moving in the same direction as the runaway otherwise the disaster would have been greater the men on the passenger train had not the slightest warning of their danger there is nothing of the wreck left but shouldering ing ashes and burnt and twisted iron rods and chains |
