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Show DASHED INTO THE SLEEPER. A Fatal Collisioa on th. Nortli.ro Paeine Near Butt. Bt'TTF., Jan. 20. A wreck occurred yesterday afternoon on the Butte branch of the Northern Pacific railroad. The Portland sleeper, containing fourteen passengers, had been detached for transfer to the west bound Montana Union train, and was left standing on the main track. A double-header outgoing out-going freight train, running twenty-live twenty-live miles an hour, crashed Into the sleeper. Henry VV. Lard of Devils Lake, Da-kola, Da-kola, was struck by the engine and instantly in-stantly killed. Of those sustaining serious ser-ious injuries are John II. Cottrell of Dayton, Ohio, rut ou the head, leg sprained; Mrs. John II. Cottrell. badly bruised about the body: S. D. Calder-hoad, Calder-hoad, auditor of the. Montana Union railroad, back sprained, badlv bruised anil cut on tin head; Mrs. S. D. ('aider-head, ('aider-head, arm broken and badly bruised; Mrs. O. F. Cook, Seattle, Wash., scalp wound and badly bruised; Tim Donahue, Dona-hue, engineer of the front engine, leg broken. Dan Lowry, the engineer of the second engine, and Fireman Charles Peed were badly bruised by jumping from their engines before the collision. |