| Show TR TRAIN PLUNGES THROUGH rw 8 mGt S I CHICAGO CHICAGO BURLINGTON GER OER TRAIN PLUNGES PLUNGES THROUGH BRIDGE Death Deat List LII Uncertain c Burlington Burlington Train Drops Into Swollen Creek Creek- Passengers Trapped Da Day Coaches Coache ff Cup Casper r Wyo Many any persons persona ar are believed ed to td t have bavo J lost their r lives live and more than an a score ot of others suffered Injuries InJure some of them em serious when w hen ben Chicago Burlington A paw pau p o l r train No Noi 30 80 6 through a bridge fourt fourteen en muse miles eat east of If Casper Caiper Cas Cai per per Thursday night into i Coal Cr Creek k This The wreck occurred occurred At at et an isolated isolated B spot near near Locke tt tit Ui ho hours r. r afterward rd that f of the details of the accident became known here The train i plunged into into the Coal Creek Creek swollen to many many many- time Its normal nor nor nor- real mal depths depth because of cloudbursts and heavy rains and passengers pas passengers ng rs were en engulfed In the r raging raging torrent that poured poun d through the the channel channel- with little UtU for jor or no DO chance e of escape A A wrecking wrecking crew sent lent from Cas Ca per f found und upon upon arriving at the scene acene II of the ot the tragedy that the work of ot attempting at at- attempting tempting tempting to le rescue those caught In Int Inthe Inthe t the was was practically Impossible during the night because of the dark ne ness and flood conditions nothing of of an absolutely definite de de- fil finite nature upon which to base a truly conservative estimate it was believed by hy railroad that be be- tween and rond passengers pas on the Burlington to night train bound for Denver met their death in rushing waters when that train w went nt through a bridge e and was was submerged by a flood which wept swept swept down Coal creek creek t Fo Four Fourt r lost Jost their theft lives In the Casper Casper Cas Cae per Pullman Pullman while the others others' who perished were drowned in In t the le day dllY coach coach smoker and ba baggage ge M and d express ex ex- pre press cars The he express car was completely ED Engineer neer Spang ler ter Fireman Mallon ond C Conductor Fr Frond Frank Guff Gutt of Creeper Casper are reported to h have lost their lives In the wreck Th The i enJi and and- tender had gone gOD over the bridge when the collapse came me came at ll d the locomotive o wae rui was pulled p back Into to a a i raging i torrent dra dragging the D Deer and fireman under water wat watt er ere The express and Dd baggage ae cart fart to gether with the the- day roach road were were ere car vied 1 Into ito the flood with th the forward portion of t the Casper allper It oilman nosing Into the stream and tour four In the smoking compartment t. t The Montana Pullman remained on the track and no one Jn thin thill coa coach h was injured All cars except the two were Pullmans Pullmans were submerged In tile the flood waters |
