Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-03 | Page 3 | Four Die When Train Plunges into River

FOUR OlE DIE WHEN TRAIN 1 PLUNGES INTO RIVERS RIVER Twenty-six Twenty Others Injured i in i n Wreck Caused by Washout Washout Washout Wash Wash- out in Wisconsin Camp Douglas Wis Sept 2 Four Four persons vere were killed In the wreck of or train No 10 on the tho Chicago St St. Paul Minneapolis Omaha railroad which a washout caused by last nights night's cloudburst threw Into tho the Weir Lemon river near Camp Douglas today Twenty six other persons were Injured six alx seriously The dead Engineer Ralph alph Thompson Fireman Abraham Mail dork clerk name not known Lee Lec Conductor Lyons and a brakeman are aTc among the seriously Injured The train was flagged at ot a 0 a tunnel on account of a washout Just west of oC Elro Elroy and later latel was ordered to back backup backup backup up to Camp Douglas BO so that the passengers pas pas- sen might breakfast The Tho high highbrIdge highbridge highbridge bridge and the banks on both sides Hides of oC the Lemon Lemon- Weir Lemon Weir river were washed out and tho the train plunged Into the whirling water below Sleeping car passengers climbed out through windows many clad only In night clothes The Tho smoking car was carried several hundred feet foet down downstream downstream downstream stream but all Its occupants escaped