Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-07 | Page 2 | Engine Goes over a Bluff

ENGINE E GOES I OVER A BLUFF Fatal Accident on the Canadian Pacific Railroad t ENGINEER AND FIREMAN DEAD I Sf RAN BAN INTO A PILE PUB OP OF BOOKS ON TRE TB TRACK 4 Seattle Wash Dec C GA A special to te the i Times from Vancouver B C sags sav At ilS ilI 16 this morning as ti ft I Pacific freight train wag pro east at a slow rate around a 80 dangerous da curve carve feet above th the tho Fraser river rI j Engineer Randall suddenly came cam upon I Ia a rockslide scarcely fifty fitLY yards ahead I of him A signal was VaS given to the fee e brakemen and auld the engine was but it was too late The train was scarcely going in i miles an hour but the heavy train be behind behind hind piled plied the engine on the rocks and before the engineer and fireman could jump the engine was jerked from the track and rolled over and over feet down the sheer bluff toward the river Engineer A Randall and Fireman Pot ruff were thrown out and crushed to death beneath the engine Beth were wre instantly The dead men came from fr m Randall leaves a wife VUe and children was married only a couple of months ago Three cars of 01 the freight were wrecked going over the bank af at ater er or the engine As a result of the Ute acci accident aCCIdent dent the westbound train will wUl be de da delayed six hours