Eureka Reporter | 1906-07-27 | Page 2 | Plunged into Lake

PLUNGED INTO LAKE ra broad wreck near spokane in which nine met death spokane wash the engine ex press car and smoking car of the great northern fast train west bound were submerged in the deep waters of diamond lake one and a half miles east of camden about thirty miles from spokane on monday nine men who went down in the smoking car were drowned and the engine crew are dead in the deep water As the tra n came through the portal of a tunnel the rails spread and the en gine plunged down a sixty foot em ban kment into the lake followed by the express and smoker the other cars remained on the track the cou clings were unbroken the wreck caught fire from atma gas but the flames were extin one unknown man in the day coach was probably fatally in aured by the explosion of aae gas tank diamond lake though a small body of water about halt a mile long is 1 to be feet deep in places and it is though the engine lies in feet of water