Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-02-16 | Page 3 | Saves Passengers but May Not Five

SAVES PASSENGERS V V BUT MAY NOT LIVE I Conductor Gets Twenty Off Of I Flying Car Before It Jumped Track SI Colo Cob Feb 15 TIme ho Tho lives hives l cs of oC f cult tn-cult twenty passengers s 's Including ln one OhiO woman wore vett saved ell this morning through time the coolness and ant bravery of Conductor Carl Barnes of oC the tho Gladstone Glad Glad- tone stone and aHl Northern railroad Barnes risked his lila own life lc to lo save those of or lila hIs passengers and as a a result he Is hying at his Ils home in iii 81 in Iii a serious sellous condition from rom injuries reel re re- reV cc cel el I While hlo the tho passenger cr train trin On tin tn the Glad Gladstone tone and Northern was pulling up Boulder mountain over o er a G 6 to th G Ij per cr cent grade a mile from Silverton SI ho tho rear coach in which twenty passengers passengers pas pas- were seated sU suddenly denly brol broke c an and be began an to lo run back down the own grade The an air brakes refused to work vork anti and Conductor la Barnes jumped fui fO or the tho platform to lo set tho the hund brakes but bitt before he hc could do tIn so so the coach conch ha had gained a terrific e headway The passengers els became panic stricken strick en and attempted to rush in a hod body to o the tIme platform to Jump off otT of Con ue- ue t tor or l Bane Barnes slopped them them and alid then ono by one oin while lie he a a assisted them item he hue permitted tho ho Ila passengers to jump off of Before the tho last Jast man was allowed to leap cap the wild which coach had Jn gone down I the he mountain fully a quarter of or a a tulle mile mie and amid just as as Conductor B Barnes Birnes was sas I aboul to Jump the cur car left lef ItO tho track haek and auth rolled down own a n. steep seep embankment to lo the tho bottom bottoni of or o Cement creek where It t was nas totally wrecked on the thc rocks antI loul boulders cl Conductor Barnes was is-as I caught under the car and was badly clu crushed het about the hips hils and bod body