Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-04 | Page 1 | Two Are Killed in South Dakota Train Wreck

TWO ARE KILLED IN IN SOUTH DAKOTA BAKOTA I TRAIN WRECK I II I Bridge Weakened by Fire Gives Way Under Weight of Coaches DENVER MAN VICTIM Pinned in in Burning Debris He Begs Others to I Shoot Him WATERTOWN S. S D. D March 4 Two Two people were killed and seven or br eight were injured three serio seriously sly when the southbound passenger train on the South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota Central which left this city at 6 50 this morning for Sioux Falls went through a bridge miles south of here I F. F E. E Dooling of Denver Colo Cob a traveling man was pinned In the wreckage and burned alive olive As the flames crept near him he begged the theother theother other passengers who were trying to save dave him to shoot him THE DEAD David Lovejoy of Watertown Water a passenger F. F E. E Dooling of Denver Denyer passenger I SERIOUSLY INJURED Bob Maxwell engineer W. W J Ji Bunn fireman BUrgess express messenger The weakening of the bridge by fire is believed to have been the cause of the accident accident- It is twenty-six twenty feet high at the point where the train went through The engine and a mixed man mail mailand and safely express car passed over but the three three coaches coaches behind plunged through the weakened structure It is said that the fire on the bridge probably was started by the passenger train which passed over the evening before The mall mail car was pull pulled d down I through the breach breach by by the falling coaches but the engine rolled roiled to the side down the embankment Fire soon broke out but ut in the up piled coaches below below be be- Ilow low the bridge