| Show blind ng storm of snow prevented engineer from seeing S geals twenty people being killed in coll s on butte mont in the worst wreck in the history of the northern pa railroad twenty persons were killed eleven seriously injured several fatally and about thirty more or injured to a collision between an eastbound passenger train and a westbound freight train at a bid ng known as youngs point about thirty miles west of billings on friday coining the fast traveling ger g er train crashed into the freight just entering on the siding during blinding snowstorm the engineer it the passenger falling to see the signal flag of the brakeman 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 headd coming and seeing that he could not get the heavy freight train clear of the main line the en gincer sent the flagman ahead and bad ed out upon the main line the hagman got perhaps twice the length if the passenger train up the track but owing to the heavy fog and fall ing snow afe signal was not seen lie threw a fuse through taj cab aindow but the train flew by him nd even this signal was evidently i ot noticed the passenger mriln which was running about fifty miles in hour crashed into the freight wrecking in both locomotives and telescoping the smoker and the baggage car the smoker was reduced to kindling wood and only three persons ridlie therein are 1 to have got out 0 the wrecked car alive the engineer and fireman of the freight saved their lives by jumping engineer beesinger Ble singer of the passenger engine saw the freight train when virtual upon it he threw on the emergency brake and made a leap for his life he was practically uninjured fireman babcock jumped through the cab window bi t his head struck the rail and his skull was crushed he died in a few moments some of the bodies of the were terribly mangled some of them being ground to bits so that it was to pick them up in a blan ket when the relief train reached the wreck the scene was one of a most heartrending nature many volun were engaged in taking the bleeding forms ti am underneath the wrecked cars the groans of the la aured and dying were most terrible many were pinned beneath the wreckage and many of those killed had been literally crushed to death |
