Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-12-21 | Page 12 | Gold in Train Wreck

GOLD IN TRAIN WRECK Money and Jewelry Melted Down in Express Car. KANSAS CITY, U o Dei 20 Phs Journal says Besides the loss of life in the Sant.t train wreck tit Lang, Kan.. Tuesday, theie was about $ij00o In gold and $9uj In currency and many thousand dollars' worth of jewelry destroyed de-stroyed by The express cat attached to Or; train taking tire The money was In transit from the National Bank of Commerce In Kansas CltJ to Kansas bankers. One estimate places the value of the precious stones and gold and silver sil-ver at $&o,ooo Must of the packages contained Christmas presents "There Is no doubt that it will be fully six months before tin- entire loss of the express company is known. " said D. T. Sfervlne, local manager of the W'lK-Fargo W'lK-Fargo Express company. "In the safe waa the currency and gold, and whatever what-ever space remained was filled with packages of Jewelry Our cashier estimates esti-mates that there was about Jln.noo ln money In the safe "The gold will be redeemed at practically prac-tically Its full value, and v. e are in hopes that the currency will be In a condition to warrant the Treasury department de-partment in redeeming the greater part of It."