Show MOST MOS DISAsTROUS I IR R Northern Pacific Freight Train Crashes Into a Passenger Near N ar Helena FOUR ARE KNOWN TO BE DEAD rho Took Tonk Fire tutu lUll I Oilier May ta Stilt Still lie Ito Hurled Under It ft ItI I C Thu most Ino l railroad Wreck that has ita ha taken place ID lii tho the vicinity of ot Helena for many litany yearn yeats occurred last night shortly before mid mitt midnight midnIght night two and anti a n unit half mites miles west we t of or Helena A It runaway Northern freight train crashed Into u it 1 passenger IJ train on In Inthe the same MaIne line wrecked It t toot et tire fire to It and up uti U to 3 1 thU titi four whose Identity Is assured wore were to tu be dead denil d with a 11 probability ability nullIty Hint two tilt mar whose mines mune S It ItIs ItI Is I Impossible to in learn leant may haVe hae been burned In III the wreck The Tho fh known dead are J N Charles thurlen Brickie Brickle conductor passenger J A Jessup express messenger Foster merchant of ot ton was serl sen Injured but bitt nn umu examination shows not nol fatally fatall None of or the tite passenger vho rho escaped e with their lives were seri sent seriously Injured The story of at the accident hos I It to have lall been hoen most remarkable Time The ho pins pim enger train passed through Austin about eight miles west ivest of Helena on Oil time Following It Willi a n long lanK freight train made lIdo up of box unit and list Hat curs cars load loaded loa ed with lumber and shingles At Ails Aus Austin tin titi the was uncoupled from toni tom tho thu freight to take wilIer water nd the tue train was wa loft left standing on the tho track There Is b a n steep grade ea east ellit t of lit Austin Au and anil by sonni means menns the freight train traia got gol started d down the lull hill The Tho passenger train when It arrived nt lit the tue Montana Central cronin stopped lopped when the engineer heard n II pound behind him that warned warnell him of oe danger He lIe started his hla train hut hUllt It hash gone Salle but hut a few feet when the tho freight crashed Into the rear car Them Thero were hut two cars In the train a II combination tion tiou express anti and mall mail and i car anti and a day da conch coach The two tIO cars car vero iere smashed hed anti 1 thrown Into the Ito ditch The engine on the passenger be he coma cattle uncoupled from the ears earn but thu 1111 not hot leave leavo the tue track k and Pel Pelt ty t ell to keep ahead of tho ho lly ily 11 Ing freight The Tho freight Wint v nt probably 00 feet flot when It too went off the trade track In a n few rew minutes fire tire started and four hours the cars and the ho lumber burned burneil fiercely TIle The crash of cit the collision was van heard b by persons living In the vicinity who iho Immediately storied started for the wreck When they got there an scene met their The combination car was on all tIre Ore and amid pinned under a II mass massof of ot wreckage was 1118 t Je He Hp Tf wan lU con colt conscious and heroic berate efforts were made to t release hint him from train his situation finally tho the lire fire got so pC hot tint that the rescuers had hall to give JIe up Uti the task Jessup still conscIous cried It U Is hard harti to lie here and burn to tn death He lie struggled to release himself riH as II tha tho tire Ore took hold of nt his limbs but hut th thu ha I effort was fruitless and ald after a It fow buy screams of ot agony lII on unconsciousness cama camato to him hilmi In tho the meantime the few Ie uninjured uninjured passengers exerted themselves them to 10 t rescue those who were ere to tl it themselves J B El n of was WM found beyond human aid lying under undera n a car A short distance awn awas ChArI nickle the conductor was vas found He Ite also was dead 1 ll and hits his body was vas taken out of the range of the thu lire 1111 Tho Thu that met net the tho gaze of ot on the th ground was nn nil awful 1 one to 10 full ull Mew ie with blazing shingles all RII about him anti and M N i 1 mass mon of coniC coals was Willi the th body bOlly of nn an unknown man maim a 11 It 11 Was WOl slowly lowly until nil all Il that lint was H left loft was wn the skull anti outstretched were WI two stumps that a II few feit hours hourI before had bud h lt been 1 arms It Is IR not thought It will bu hi difficult to tn establish C the thu Identity of ut the two unfortunates who are supposed to 10 have hn been hein consumed In Itt the th Ih tire fire There are according to the passengers to 10 have been leen eight passengers on Oil the till train If It there were night two are ars still unaccounted for said h he was uns not lIot sure whether there re were seven or r eight What mAll made It In to rescue re tho hate e pinioned beneath the wreckage WM ivas the flirt that when tho hit freight through h tho tIm passenger a car carn cara ar n a 1 became detached from flom th freight ht train tind pit fell Ill on the lion roach Tits The shingles caught ht tire fire almost Immediately made tacit uch ft n ahot hot fire Oro and nn burned fo po I 1 I that nothing could bo he done to savu saro those thouc |