| Show 11HIIK3K GIVES WAY n Wrecks n rassroger Train With Loss of iir Tacoma Wash Feb aTh Overland over-land passenger train that left Tacoma ot 5 oclock Yesterday afternoon was wrecked at 4 clock this morning at a small bridge thirty miles east of Pasco between nation nnd Connell Two men who were riding on the platform of the baggage car were killed and another who was on the platform of the mall car next tho tender had his leg and one hand crushed The mall clerk was cut slightly about the hd The men who were killed were John Lcland and an unknown man Inland was from St Louis They both had some money but were beating their way east The mn who was Injured ws ono ot the Klondlkrs who was wrecked on the Corona Ile was returning re-turning home with a companion and both I were riding on the platform of the mall car They refused to give their names The train In charge of Conductor Campbell I and Engineer George Ladd was running slowly on account of bad track The accident occurred on a mall bridge over a stream not more than twentyfive feet wide which had been swoUn hy the recent heOy rains The engine passed over the bridge hut the engineer felt the structure give way beneath him and prompt applied the merrney brake Th bridgesank I an the emergency car left It and the baggage car and an empty emigrant Car went down with It The engine left the track find turned partly over The engineer and fireman stuck to their iosts and were unhurt The mail cor was thrown on Its side stripped of Its trucks and badly mshd The tar was met on fire IW lie lamps but was quickly put out rhbltnn 1 kI6nulo before much damage find been done Tile express and loggago Cars were turned over on their sides and smashed The escape of tile mngrs and clerks was almost mlrneulou The lIngerB In the sleepers were awnknod b jy the shock but were unInjured un-Injured I The wrecke bridge en met lie 1 lelnlred I before Monday night and perhp Inter me a washout it few miles enst of the wreck prevents thelutsming of wrecking trains Dancing ntlllun tail Chicago Feb 6A panic among 200 Inneers wits norrowl averted lost I nldnlght I ut the North Shore hall Thirty spectators were crowded Into I the little balcony watching the dance = The supports hcam looened and slip cd back to the wall The balcony sank gradually allowing tho spectators to slide tcpsyturvy on the polished flourWhen When the creaking nnd pulling commenced com-menced Indlentlnr that the baloony was fullln the large number of per son gathered underneath quickly tmplled toward tile central portion of the hall leaving John Krulse behind be-hind Krulse was caught by the foilIng foil-Ing timbers and his Mile crushed As the north end of the bnJony com mneed to fall the musicians became pan I cBtr cken and seizing their Instrument Instru-ment mad a dash for the door The dancers cers stationed followed at the Several door threw police It hut onl and held It against the panicstricken I I dancers thus averting a certain eata trophe on the narrow stairway Of the thirty persona In the gallery Cruise a One sustained serious InJUries All of the others however were painfully pain-fully bruised |
