Coalville Times | 1902-09-05 | Page 2 | Train Blown Form Track

TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK. I BlriM-a by Torusil,, Hurled II. .wa KailxnSaie.,1 ai.rt Ton I'eranna Killed. Two Hereon, were killed, three fatally fatal-ly Injured and mora than a score of other hurt Hominy In the wreck of a train which had been hurled down an embankment by a lornado. A weal-bound weal-bound train on the Chicago A. North, weatcrn railroad, waa struck by a lornado lor-nado w hile running al the rale of thirty. thir-ty. flee mllra an hour. Iwo miles from Meridian, Minn. The passenger and (baggage car were hurled eighteen (rat down the embankment tu lit hace guarding Ihe right-of-way. A bakeman had lieen lighting the lampl alien the crash enme and the wreckage raa ignited by the spilling of oil. I The engineer ia reported lu hare aecn la tornado in apparent pursuit uf the tjrdn and ai-srcely an Instant before - .ih wind struck liircara the train gar Oircb In a andilrn spurt loeride tin fnioel-aliaped fury. It waa 5:40 o'clock wkn Ike train waa atriick. Fully an liotr aad half elapsed before a wreck-log wreck-log train arrirrd.