Show THREE MEET QUICK DEA By an Act of Heroism Scofield Mother Saves One Child but She Loses Her Life With Two Other Little Ones DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FROM RUNAWAY CARS Bereaved Father Is Prostrated by the Sight of the Mangled r Bodies of His Wife and Their Two Small Children A SCENE OF DEVASTATION Republican Special Service Scofield Feb 26 26 Mrs Herman and two small children were instantly killed this morning by two runaway coal cars which broke loose at Winter Quarters Quarters Quarters and made the run of a little more than two miles down grade to Scofield at a arate arate arate rate estimated at miles an au hour The box cars were of the large new type and were loaded with coal They were being made up into a atrain atrain atrain train when they broke loose The operator at Winter l Quarters succeeded in notifying notifying notifying noti noti- the agent at Scofield before the cars reached the lower earn camp p and switches were turned throwing the I runaway n y cars on a side track I. I p. p tJi d 1 i rs ca-rs t t U sPlinters The debris was scattered for a hundred feet l I around the station I Mrs was walking on the track carrying an Cn Infant In tn her arms arm I Her son Fred aged ten years was I hauling another child four years rears old on a a. hand sled The dog accompanying accompany accompany- ing inS them was killed and the old oldest gt bo boy Fred was the tho only one ono to es escape escape escape es- es cape instant death Tho boy says he remembers seeing the cars approaching approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap at lightning speed and his mother threw him to one side In the deep enow eno It Is apparent that Mrs 1 lost h her r Ufe life and those of th the theother theother other two children by this net act Child ChIll Scalded to Death The accident la h particularly sad for tor the reason that only on y a few months ago another child of the family met death by falling tailinG Into a 0 tub of ot water at the tho home borne Herman the husband and father a miner employed at ot Winter Quarters Ti-as Ti as summoned Immediately and wa I prostrated by the sight of the mangled mangled man man- lcd bodies bodle The scene at ot ld Is one of oC den devastation de de- dc- dc n about the depot As the cars approached the station there was wasa wasa a a. wild scrambling of people and the agent only reached the switch a few fen seconds before tho runaway cars came C through the camp The cars were detached and running about fee feet apart The first one took tho the siding near tho the station and when the tho cloud of coal dust subsided there were five live cars In a n tangled led mass The 8 cond runaway Jumped the switch and made another wreck on the cast wide tide track where It with three other cars It may he be two or three days before the tha tracks can be cleared and r repaired |