| Show 0 O. S. S L Ls TRAINS TRAI NS CRASH HEAD ON LUMBER FREIGHT AND TRAIN OF EMPTY CARS CRASH NEAR KEMMERER Engineer Dies Olea Under Unde Mass Mall of Wreck age After Jump for Safety Fireman Is II Crushed to Death J Kemmerer Wyo Two railroad men were killed find and three were seriously seri sori injured as a result rt sult of ot a on head collision of ot two Oregon Short Line railroad freight trains five miles east of here bere shortly d after 1 8 S o'clock Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day morning An eastbound lumber train heavily loaded I crashed Into a westbound train of empty cars which hleb was pull Ing off oft a siding at a water station E Engineer er William Richard of the westbound train was burled under wreckage when ha he attempted to jump Jum to safety and was wall instantly killed and Fireman Kilt King of the eastbound train lost his life when Ie he was burled under uDder a large quantity of coal coat The injured men are Earl Jonely brakeman of If Kemmerer Kenmerer suU suffering a scalp calp wound George Sterman burns bums and possible Internal Injuries and Brakeman Crosby whose leg was waa broken Crosby was thrown to the track by bythe bythe bythe the force of ot th- th Impact Impart and despite his broken leg succeeded in big Ing himself w without help belp The three injured men were rush ed to a n hospital here here- and a twenty twenty- hour four delay of traffic Is antici as ns the wreckage e of the two freight trains is fe strewn along the ri right ht of ot way for a great distance There la 18 no official announcement ement as to the cause of ot the wreck |
