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Show Finn is KILLED II WHF.CKAGE Avelve Passengers Arc Sent To Hospital After Helper Engine Crashes Into Butte-bound Butte-bound Passenger Train. BUTTE, Mont., Iov. 13 'LT) While passengers and rainmen recovered from more r less serious injuries and vreckcrs busily cleared away vrcckagc, railroad authorities oday prepared to conduct a omprehensive investigation ito the Credit Northern railroad vrock la3t night nrar Elk Park, hich claimed the life of Cecil Has-ic, Has-ic, Puttc, fireman, 29, and sent 12 o the hospital, six in a serious onditlon. Great Northern passenger train lo. 237, hound for Tin tie, and a elpcr engine from Butte, collided n a grade. Only the fact that both ncines were proceeding at a mod-rate mod-rate pace prevented more fatali- Helper Crashes The wreck occurred at 7:30 p. m-ne m-ne and one-half miles cast of Elk ark, 20 miles northeast of Butte, rt the mouth of a canyon. The passenger locomotive, pulling hrec coaches and a baggage car, .vas climbing the grade between Basin and Elk Park at a speed estimated es-timated at 35 miles an hour. A Great Northern helper engine which had been dispatched from Butte to C'ancy to meet a night freight train and help it over the Elk Park grade, was backing down the track at a moderate pace. 1 The two locomotives came together to-gether with a terrific crash. The passenger engine telescoped into "no helper's tender. Powell and Hastie, the helper engineer and 'i reman, were trapped in their i ;abin. Hastie was fatally injured, ind Powell is in a critical condition. condi-tion. They were extricated from the wrecked locomotive only after strenuous efforts of passengers and trainmen. The crash occurred at a highway crossing and blocked Butte-Boulder traffic on the Elk Park highway. Traffic was suspended until two wrecking crews could clear the track. While refusing to place blame, railroad authorities said that the helper engine had been dispatched from Butte with instructions to sidetrack for the passenger train. Why the helper was not sidetracked had not been determined this morning. |