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Show ill ILE9 II KUHWEI Accommodation Train on Wyoming Wyo-ming Branch Drops Info Raging River. WORKMEN CRUSHED UNDER ' IMMENSE STEEL TANK Thirteen Men Injured, Some of Whom Died Soon After Accident. CASPEH. Wyo., March 2C.-The accommodation ac-commodation train on the Chicago & Northwestern'! new branch west of here ran Into a washout on the prairie, twenty-six miles west of here, at 10:30 last night, killing nine people and Injuring thirteen others. About tho Bame timo the middle span of tho big railroad bridge across tho Platto river, near this city, went out, nnd It Is Impossible to send trains to the scene of the accident. Great Force at Work. A great forco of men was at once put to work on tho bridge and tho ofllclals announce It will be coincided beforo noon. Superintendent Cortilllon and Drs. Greene. Gillam and Keith crossed tho river by the wagon bridge, secured a hand car at the section houso and started start-ed for the scene of thc wreck. A sovero snowstorm camo up nnd after going six miles tho hand car was blocked. Tho physicians then drovo to tho wreck. Caught in Death Trap. Most of the killed arc In a caboose, which was at tho rear of tho train, with a ponderous ateel water tank back of the cnboose. Tho caboose sank down deep Into the mud and tho water car plunged into tho caboose and crushed It In like an egg shell, catching the people In a lIThe wreck occurrod on tho new line being constructed from Casper to the Shoshone reservation, which Is to bo thrown open to settlement next August. Most of thc persons killed and Injured were Workmen on the way to grading camps. j.njjnn jjroUght News. The first authentic and detailed story of the wreck was brought to Casper at noon by an Italian interpreter. Antonla 1 evaill." who was In the accident. Lvalll says the train, a water outllt, composed of one coach, two Hat cars and a water car, wan ramming to Casper from the front. All streams were swollen and In places water way standing on the track Near Natrona the train struck a small bridge over a swollen stream The engine pnHsed over in safotv but. the coach, loaded with the section men, dropped into thc roaring torrent and the Hut and water cars piled on top. All in Coach Victims. Thc coach was domollshcd. There wero twenty-six persons in tho car at thc time of the accident and all who wero not killed or drowned worn injured. Foreman Charles Moll wnc killed outright out-right and for a time the luborers, being without a leader, were frantic and did not know what to do. The engineer and lire-man lire-man and the train crew quickly assumed charge and tho work of rescue began. Night Hindered Rescue. The wreck occurred at 5 o'clock Sun-dnv Sun-dnv afternoon nnd darkness soon sproad i mil over the acone, Thn train crew "nd the less seriously Injured among thc 'laborers worked all night und as fast t" tho Injured wero taken out they were carried to Natronn. where thoy received such treatment as could be obtained at the section houso and two or threo ranch houses. mcck Is in Flftmes. The wreckage caught lire from thc car ,3tovo shortly after the accident occurred. And for a tlmo It looked as If thc dead nnd Injured would be Incinerated before iliev could be removed. Buckets wero brought In play, howevor, and after a ncht of twenty minutes the flumes were extinguished before any material damage was done. Ono or two of tho laborers who wero pinned under the wreckage near tho Btovc. woro slightly burned Some Injured Dying. Thu relief party reached the acone nt noon today. Several of thc Injured are reported to have died In tho meuntlmo A pllo driver wao iiummonod from Rapid City this morning and at noon had strengthened the bridges between "CiiHpor and Natrona, and a relief train was sent out. This train, with tho wounded on board, reached Cuancr this afternoon J |