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Show SEVER KILLED BUTTE, Mont. Nov. 1C A collision colli-sion between two Northern Pacific freight trains near Homestako this morning killed four railroad men and threo unknown men Tho dead aro- LEWIS GEIS, roarimaster CONDUCTOR RUDIGER, Livings- M H MARTIN OLSEN, section foreman, H Butte. H CHRIS MARKFF, foreman of extra H gang, Homestako. H THREE . UNKNOWN.. FOREIGN M LABORERS M Tho wreck occurred between pas- H sengor train No. 174 and a work train H three miles west of Pipestone, and Is H believed to havo resulted from a mis- H understanding of orders on the part H of a trainman. H Tho wreck caught fire and bodies H were badly burned. Conductor Fred f M Rudlgor had been working with a , M work train on the mountain for the M last two months and. was considered H ono of tho most competent men In M tho work train service. ' M Roadmastor "L, E. Gels had but re M cently been made rondmastor and hni H just moved from Homestakc to Butte. ' H Martin Olson wns a brother-in-law H of Roadmastor Gels and C. Markoff, M was foreman of a gang of Bulgarians H who wcro working on the train. H UU IH Twenty thousand women in Bir- J miugham, Eng., It Is stated, nre work- H lng at canling hooks and eyes at an M average from half a crown to four H shillings a week. M |
