Show TIN ec IN montana RESULT OF SHOW SNOWSTORM blinding storm of snow prevented engineer from seeing signals twenty people being killed in collision butto butte mont in the worst in tho the history of the northern railroad twenty persons were killed eleven seriously injured several fatally and about thirty more or less injured in a collision between an eastbound cast bound passenger train and a westbound freight train nt a siding known as youngs point about thirty miles west of billings on friday morning the fast traveling passenger train crashed into the freight just en encoring on the siding during P E blinding snowstorm tho the engineer of the pas passenger falling failing to see the signal flag of the brakeman bra koman of the freight train in time to avert the crash the freight train which was an exceptionally heavy one left park city with but six minutes time to make the siding it pulled partly on to the siding when the passenger was heard coming and seeing that he could not get the heavy freight train clear of the main line the engineer sent the flagman ahead and backed backe dout out upon the main line the flagman got perhaps twice the length of the passenger train up the track but owing to the heavy fog and falling snow the signal was not seen ho he throw threw a fuse through the cab window but the train irain flow by him and oven even this signal was evidently not noticed the passenger train which was waa running about fifty miles an hour crashed into the freight wrecking both locomotives and telescoping the smoker arid and the baggage car the smoker was reduced to kindling wood and only three persons riding therein are known to have got out of tile the wrecked car alive the engineer and fireman of tile tho freight saved their lives by junist jumping engineer Ble beesinger singer of the pa passenger en or engine saw raw the freight train when virtually upon it lie threw on tho the emergency brake and made a leap for ills his life ile ho was practically uni tin injured fireman babcock jumped through the cat cal window but ills his ead kead k h struck tile tho rail and hla his skull was crushed ho he died in a few moments some of the bodies of the killed were terribly bly mangled some borno of them being ground to bits so that it was necessary to pick them up in a blanket when the relief train reached the wreck the scene was one of a most heartrending nature many volunteers were engaged in taking the bleeding forms from underneath tho the wrecked cars the groans of the injured and dying were most terrible many were pinned beneath tho the wreckage and many of those killed had been literally crushed to death |