| Show I MET IT DEATH IN SLEEP STOCKMEN C CRUSHED TO DEATH IN COLLISION AND THEIR BODIES BURNED Four Men Were Killed Outright While Two Managed to Crawl From Twisted Mass of Steel and Iron Terribly Injured Montevideo Minn Four Four stockmen from Montana and South Dakota were killed two injured so seriously that there is slight chance of or their recovery recovery ery eo and an engineer and fireman badly badly bad bad- ly crippled when section four of the Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul eastbound eastbound east east- bound passenger No G 6 from Butte Mont crashed into the rear end of a astock astock stock Block train as it was endeavoring to back in on the siding to let the passengers passengers pas pas- engers by a mile west of here on Sunday Engineer Tat Parker and Fireman Stickler of the passenger saw the tall tail lights of the stock caboose and jumped jumped jump jump- ed ed edin in time to save sa t their lives Both were injured Six stockmen coming east with tine the train load of cattle were asleep in the caboose when the passenger boro bore down upon it and four were killed outright Two George and William Downing managed managed man man- aged to crawl through the mass of ol steel teel and iron more dead than alive and are frightfully burned and in in- They are not expected to live The force of the impact shattered the caboose the two cars of cattle ahead of It and toppled the engine of the passenger over sidewalks the track on top of the wreckage Fire started and the bodies of the four dead men were burned Two cars of cattle were also burned before the fire department from the city got to the Box cars on nearby tracks were licked up by the flames and in order to save the passenger coaches they were uncoupled and pushed back backby backby backby by passengers and members of the train crew Late Sunday afternoon the charred remains of the men burned burned burn burn- ed to death were recovered |
