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Show CAUGHT ON HIGH BRIDGE Workmen Run Down by Light Tratn on Northern North-ern Pacific. SPOKANE. Feb. 12. A train, east-bound, east-bound, caught a boarding gang yesterday yes-terday afternoon on a high trestle on the Great Northern railway near Camden. Cam-den. One boarding worker is dead, another In the hospital, while at last accounts the caboose of the train was in the Little Spokane river, upside down, forty feet below the track. The workmen, it is claimed, had posted warning flags, to which the engineer en-gineer paid no attention. At a high rate of speed the engine dashed around a curve and rushed down upon them. The boarding gang had removed ties from under the rails on the trestle for a distance of about sixteen feet. The rush of the engine carried It across this gap safely, but the cabooe broke loose and plunged into the river below. Fortunately the caboose was empty. The foreman of the gang ran up tho bank and escaped. Arthur Sewell was not so lucky. He was caught and crushed by the engine, his body being dragged a third of a mile. He died last night. John Walker was also badly-Injured, badly-Injured, but may recover. Great Northern North-ern cfllclals claim no others were injured. in-jured. It is charged that the train blew no warning whistle. |