Show iii BLE ACCIDENT I ON aREA CREAT T NORTHERN Train Runs Into a Passenger ight M I f Thirty six Killed all Burned inI in I Wreck W reck Except Five nt t Auff AUS A Ug 11 1 wet t ft wreck crek of at rt l 10 the train rain No o 3 at ut Nya Ii 1 tr ngel ve ce ot Of f U None Nono Nonon J wa a Injured tho fatal t n blen D to THE rUE DEAD assistant general sup supt f T n ns Great Northern tnt t ot of the t 01 N D 11 son f k i plair jair cook Mr Le cT Scandinavian laborers r ji tJ unknown Till Scandinavian laborers i tt tI caused by b the tho break neck was as 18 It freight train on the ther ol Of a n jt t AL o foot toot mountain Hock of 01 i a 11 r 1 e end enil of at the freight tOle tolek I ne rear head end dashed back buck the I we k torn Nm mountain and crashed lJj down tU 3 train end of ot the passenger I M re tb pilling out ot the eta sta staThe t h was ns just us The car attached to the tho tai it at the wa was liS of Cf tIC the passenger Downs lie He and his hits of ot Hupt II cook Henry hear Blair and nd their r I Kirk ill rk killed The cur car Just It ie confined Asa Duluth fl route from front I en u II Mont Moat They The were i I to Jennings Only ani thirteen were lore the tle debris alive am rte rs Immediately Imm lla tel following the col cot colI the private care cre I bodies of at those within The Thes communicated to tot toI quickly I s sere vere ere fu or rather to what re retti seaL ahead I ee t nt ra ue td of Cf It and the tile bodies laborers were t 1 of Gf the t Third from from the rear I crawled aJO iwa I s burned burel but Jut those within maT man maTr iua collision or oe ors escape C when the wi to t r ei i The Th fire re continued to spread s by b bO emb the tt mass of ot debris caused O t of oC IC the dozen or moi molt mOIl cars and their consignments freight ry the passenger train was cut cit cu t fc II no Io between the third and fourth trots the rear reer and the balance WAS wa tho the the lie safe fate distance from tram to h a vi wires on on the poles LAd l the track vero seen melted 11 a communication was thus cut olt ut utI I te minutes after the collision 7 ilau were vre taken to the scene tz ti this ell eU nail and nit nil traffic wits was for tor or a it at tt je impended while white the wreck and the to tta crews endeavored to rescue Win ki of cf the Injured anti and dead and clear ij 11 I the debris JOT WARDS STATEMENT STATE 8 i Paul raul AUR Au 31 General etT T E f Ward Word gave the Associated hu the allowing statement of the ther filet r k on os the Great Northern near etl ent at 8 t 50 Q 0 p m at August AUguRt 30 at atten atEe ten ilm Ee Mont eighteen cars broke loose ta mn Li the he rear end of at the freight train bi t J tan ran down the hilt hill sixteen miles to tok yau k sAllon ifton where It overtook pas rr train tran No o 3 which was UK Just out cut from that station In the I million nison Mr lr r T r I P I Downs assistant superintendent In lit charge o ot lines general west vest of ot Minot N P D was killed together with his is non lIon Kirk T Downs Down his cook Henry Blair and about laborers who were mowing moving wen wei weRt In a coach attached to the tue rear of at th the th train None Nona of the tie regular passenger Injured The rho wreck on the train were took and the remains of at all 1111 except excer burned It 1 Is I five of ot those killed were vere therefore not known positively how hov hio many fatalities resulted d In lU to those killed twelve laborers am an und Burke were Injured Mr Downs was born April S 8 1817 1847 I In Ireland He Ho entered railway ru 11 11 service April 1 1868 as lIan a brakeman on vassell passenger train Burlington bronchi branch of tin the Central ger Vermont railroad In hi he Ii become became been me master of trains on division of ot the tho and road then thell comprising the main line o othe ot the tho Glasgow OIn lol branches o othe ot the tho Knoxville Jn division anti and the Chesapeake peake Ohio brunch May tay I 1 1856 t to b December 31 1890 ho lie was waH wa superintend superintendent branch brunch of ot the same division ent cot Louisville Nashville rail railroad railroad the all 1111 on 1891 30 road For n a year ear ending April he was trainmaster of 01 the Gulf Col Cot Colorado He lie wm wall Val orado tt Vo Fe I e railroad made superintendent of the northern division of this road on May 1831 1891 Fron From May 7 to July l he was wn super superintendent of at transportation He lie was wa made assistant general superintended he lie held for tor si six July 1 I 1896 which months month when he was made mado assistant superintendent of ot the Atlanta West Weal WestPoint Point railway and the tue Western Hallway In September 1897 lit he Alabama lit f was appointed n lent or of the roads which position he held un on until until mine til Lil November D 19 1899 At this period he In o the tho Great Grent Northern came ame to mute made assistant general superintendent North Northern December 1 I 1899 for tor the Great Grent lines west vest of Minot N D I His ap appointment ern rn as I vice Ice president of ot the th Falls Jo Northern would have Spokane become effective tomorrow September 1 I DEAD Spokane Wash nah Aug AU 31 A special Mont tIre the Chronicle from lo to 0 of or says aye At last Ilist evening a 11 train cars cors loaded with shingles md ad lumber broke loose on the moun moult airi grade on the Great Northern near The fifty miles west of ot here Is very steep and the cars car came clune grade jrade speed town down the mountain at frightful crashed Into the rear end of or pits pas and ind lender ender No 3 Just pulling out Q cC Nyack seventeen miles below belo On the rear r nl of or orthe he the train was a l coach load ot of laborers train Duluth bound for the railroad rom york vork at Jennings J There were forty six ix of ot them thein all nil but thirteen were w re tilled tiled All but five of ot the killed wore turned burned In the tire wreck It Is in Impossible of ot this time but Jut most at nt names to get o a Scandinavians Next to the were hem them was the private car of ot Assist ear rear Superintendent ear Cir P 1 T F Downs of the tire ant int Northern Mr Downs and his hison Ireat son ion and the cook were In the car The Theody out but no norace norace cook was pulled of ot the bod ody 01 been or his son has lies race trace of ot Mr tr Downs The TIre wreck caught fire almost Cound and the three cars of ot the tire antI and ten cars of or tIre the freight passengers consumed At least three of ot the tue were ere were burned alive None Noire of at atthe In the Pullman or In thea the theda the he passengers coaches forward were Injured da lay a of ot the dead not burned burnell and the Those hose Nails founded have been brought to dead far tar as known num numer number numer pell ell eli The fhe so ber er 38 36 |