Show MONTANA SMASH UP k I 1 I 1 damage is 13 faasei il an ac on the U N t dutte inter infer now 29 the anaconda oro ore train which left tho tile butte depot at aci V this morning became uncoupled un c aup I 1 e d near tho the i blue ikird bird mill an affa 1 I 9 so soon on as hie ithe accident W was as discovered a train was sent back to kighal the montana tenton passenger pas nger which was duo due there in twenty minutes the pas train was bt all right and its brak brakeman vent back to signal signa I 1 tho the utah mh A northern freight which wag was to 10 leave butto butte ten after tho tile pas pi eisener sener ae As the track vaa was as slippery elip pery as glass from the tho heavy frost on the tile rail the engineer of he the freight freigh t could not stop hie his heavy train r a 1 0 on 1 I 1 araz e time and conductor tor IN west s seeing i the h thain bear ing down upon them ruA rushed lied through Kli the tile coaches con hee and ordered the I 1 iiii n era I 1 to jump for their liadi A later tile of the frei slit lit struck tho the rear end of lie tile laet last coach crushing it atway way half through it and raising it lip tip on lop of labile tho e railroad employees me re tr i ing n to e arder out of shechao q tp I 1 that t prevailed another freight u which hart had been signalled signal led but could not be br bro ollit tight to a dead top came doii upon the scene and arid made a avret k of fhe caboose of the freight which had telescoped with the passenger conductor frank minty vas was bailly brul bruised about the tile ead hed and shoulders and had hl hh noo broken the engineer of the tile freight had hia his spine capini injured and several oilier other trainmen train nien era more or leq 1 injured the engine which struck the tile passenger was brought back to butte with A ith the coach still on top of it and lie tile other care cars of the lie passenger train proceeded on to garrison Garr the pret presence epco of mind and prompt action of conductor west alone prevented a frightful accident an accident which would have resulted in tile irit tant death of everyone in ilia rear pa menger r and tile beri 1 ous injury of all who were on the train tile conductor mentioned I 1 above ia is john A west brother brot lier of major joseph A west of ogden atop I 1 |