Show DEAD ENGINEER BLAMED fOR WRECK Railroad Company Says Lapse Lapso On Part of Old and Trust Trusted ed BINGHAM GETS INFORMATION f 1 1011 Clerk it II letter from mum General Superintendent IerI On Out Subject of ur Wrecks Walck What caused cau ell time tho recent wreck on all tho Copper Coppel Belt licit hue lino of tin Itlo Illo will noer bo be known Do spite the fact that Engineer J 31 M 1 Good Goodwin GOodwin win lost his life liCe because ho lie stayed by Iy IJ his post lest 0 41 the tho railroad company says the wreck happened because of or a II lapse upon tipon time the part of oC an old and trusted Just what this timis lapse Ia so was wasIs Is II not explained and seeing peeing that Good Goodwin win lu Is dead ho Ime must bear the tho brunt The rime wreck recurred I March 21 and und three men inert were killed l Engineer J 3 it M Goodwin Goo Conductor Chas Madden and Fireman James J 3 Joyce Joce All remained at nt their posts us as tho the locomotive twist twisted twisted ed ad and turned In midair All wore burled buried by V tho the cab thou their lives lIes being crushed out by It II Snow on the tIme tracks of tho tIme steep steell grade Iato was at first believed to have hwe boon beaus time the cause of the time wreck and an by IJ many man Is still believed to have hao caused tho tIme heavy hea engine to start skid skit skidding skidding ding down tho time steep Steel hill hili so u steep SteeD l that with snow on out tho time tracks brakes could coull not hold tho time weight of or tho time machine Goodwill Goodwin and an his could coul have jumped but Goodwin stayed clutching at his throttle In order to tavo savo tho the front from leaping to do In lit tho bottom of tho the canyon callon to lo tho the sIde of oC tho time tracks His HIli part partners ners were doing their theil best be t to aid Tho iho engine finally filially struck a n sharp turn In lit the time tracks sailed into air ah crushed through Col Cal Walls Valls mill and finally stopped III in tIme the bottom of ot tho time canyon From Front beneath th tho tIme cab three mangled bodies eru taken SUn SUPT The rhe company In lii a 11 letter to tho limo town clerk of as us follows Dear Sir Your letter latter of March 26 6 which was ns written on request of 01 tho thu board of trustees has been received I 1 appreciate fully ully tho the Interest that tho tIme city officials of tho tIme town of ot fling Hing hum havo hao In III tIme the matter and I nt your our recommendation has hall been received In lit tho time same samo spirit It was WIS given For your Information will ml JUI visa that the question OccaSion of ot derail erl l switch haa imas been gone Into very cr erl thoroughly thorough I some somo time ago and ant we wo are arc still Investigating lug ing In the tho question of increasing tho safe safety safety ty or of tho tim operation of o time the Cop Copi Copper pur er Belt Bell railway and will vIli continue continuo to do so until wo havo hao eliminated tell all tho time ole ele elements ments monts that th t It Is possible to 10 eliminate So long as there thero are aro t ro railroads thero will 11 ho accidents and of course it la I admitted that seine somo roads are arc more mOrl difficult and dangerous to operate than others but jut no will to spared und amid no points overlooked in ium malting making tho the operation of or tho the Copper Bolt as safo as possible For Por your our further information beg to lo tolI advise lI that tIl t this accident was vas all not caused on account of ot any ally defect In tho thio track or in iii the tho engine as ItS a 11 a com corn complete and amid thorough investigation has shown tho the indications being that It was entirely duo to a II lapse lapso on thu tho part of ot an old experienced engi engl engineer fleer neer who had hat the time reputation for ox care anti tho the accident should not mutt havo happened unit mind would not hot have happened If It tho limo had hud been prop properly erly erl handled Very Vely respectfully E B STENGER General rIme Tho history of time the Copper Belt Delt lino IH Is i ono one of accidents galore mostly death dealing accidents About a II year ago ugo Clint B D Leigh a newspaper man maui und and Seth Taft Tatt representative of Wayne county In tho the last legislature were two victims |