Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1906-05-04 | Page 2 | Awful Wreck in Montana

WRECK IN engineer fireman and nine tramps killed and bodies burned to ashes engine jumped the track and the entire train excepting one car and caboose went up in a heap forty feet high BOula mont A special east bound freight train consisting of fortyune for tyone cars of lumber and a ca boore was waa wrecked near add station about tn ten miles west of here ii C re at 0 6 sunday morning at least eleven lives were lost about a mile from the 0 tie itle on a steep mountain grade as the train was ft as running at a terrific speed along the side bide of a hill the engine mant nc off on the track and the entire train excepting ono lie car and the ca boose boobe was waa d up in ft a heap fort feet high shortly afterward fire broke out and the entire train nan mas soon ablaze A wrecking train m aas as sent bent out from here lut but owing t to tho the intense heat beat of the burning lumber it was waa impossible to get near the wreck I 1 engineer L D sterne and fireman reman rd Jul gullatte latte were brakeman 0 G A murphy who was dangerously injured was waa brought to this city ills his skull was badly and several it ilba bs were fractured it to is thought he be also algo sus talked internal Int intel einal nal injuries according to tc conductor ga gather I 1 ber there were at least twelve tramps tramp on oil board the Ill fated train rain only three of whom have been found