Show COLLISION NEAR BUTTE union pacific express from salt lake wrecked Wreck od SEVERAL PERSONS INURED INJURED nobody killed and none hone believed Sel lared to be fatally wounded conflict of orders given by tho the train dispatcher said to have caused the collision engineers and firemen jumped and were not hurt both engines demolished and tho the union pacific smoker telescoped butte mont sept 20 by a collision between the union express from salt lake and the west duo due here at 1133 a m and IL a mixed train on oil the montana union bound tor for abaco anaco anaconda n da near rocker rocher tour four miles west of 0 here at 11 this morning the engines of both trains and the express and smoker of 0 the union pacific were wre wrecked cLed and the following pase engers rs hurt john murray leadville colo both legs badly bruised bruise dan green leadville colo ono one leg lee slightly hurst burst quinn J murphy ped cliff colo calop slight bruises on legs joseph obrien butte butt injured internally ter nally in lower part ot of abdomen charles J justice san francisco francl both feet acet badly bruised J 11 II elliott El llott baker city or right leg lee bruised and contusion on left side julius jacobs butte butta legs slightly lacerated theio were all pa passengers M M Burd burdick lck news new s gent agent a had a a slight light contusion on the h left ft check and several bruises on the loft iett leg AB jones mail clerk cleric had a fractured right forearm and lead head bruised A k CONFLICT or OF ORDERS all the injured were on the union express which uses the montana union tracks from sliver silver cow boly junction into butte the passengers hurt were all in the smoker which was telescoped for a third ot of its length by the express car the accident Is attributed to a conflict of 0 orders the trains were to have passed at silver bow junction it la is said the dispatcher subsequently released tho the union pacific and failed to change the orders to the mixed train the trains met on a straight piece of 0 track the express was going twenty live miles an hour the mixed train fifteen miles the engineers of 0 both trains reversed rever BCd and put fut on the air brakes and then jumped with their bremen none of 0 them were hurt the trains came together a moment later and both engines were demolished the express car of 0 the union pacific train jumped the tracks and was telescoped into the smoker the passengers gera and news agent injured were all in the forward part of the smoker the passengers of the mixed train were in a car in the rear of 0 the train and escaped with a up the injured were all brought to this city and taken to hospitals |