| Show A how a eneas accident hiis at scofield bc ofield editor ENQUIRER SCOFIELD 17 1890 yesterday the rio brande came anio provo on auns tuns carrying its load of live freight eastward alter the usual fifteen minutes for dinner the conductor sing out a 1 andee were carried on our wa through llie ton of the beautiful farming district of M and into the deiy heart of the ranee through tire canon and still onward and upward to P V junction chere we changed cars for and twenty four passengers arc on board alio one coach bound fur winter quarters one and a half miles aboe fc cofield when on our armal ne found eight inches of snow our trip lias er pleasant and I 1 ma say to scofield conr thain as standing on the main kracl in front of the station and nearly ready to start on its last mile an 1 a half of ery beav v climbing clim bine vi hen one of the train men ho nas kofl to one side some efty ards in a ehe jaent manner the train to back instantly the engineer had just seeped from train but the fireman david burns was at his post and fully sens ing alie d inger bv the way da e opened the throttle well it v as something to be remembered by one on board the train there were conr coal cars coupled on ahead of the engine and the sudden backing of the engine broke ayery coupling pin or link between the cars and snapped asunder the large pivot bar in aront of the en pine thus leaving the engine and one passenger coico the only ano that were not detached from each other the danger consisted 01 a runaway coal car traveling wilh meteoric hyped and dashing right at us and within a few hundred yards of ca when first discovered those familiar with this locality seemed to realize alie situation and a general scramble for the rear door was made amid screams of the ladies and cries of passengers lets jump out but dave burns had done hia work not a passenger was injured when the chai dust had cleared away there was the wreck the cars were entirely demolished one sitting blat on the ground with not a truck under it sometime last january a car loaded with slack ran away from the mine above and coming with farfa velocity jumped the track here at avo and ran into or rather knocked out one corner of sir david eccles store which has since been 50 feet back from the track As josh billings used to say it is kindem cold nights UD her M L |
