Show disastrous IDAHO WRECK runaway train spreads death and destruction in its path engine gine and cars piled in a heap with most of the crew under the debris list of dead lewiston idaho dec IG 16 four peo iilo wo were killed and one fatally injured in a breckon wre ckon the spokane lewiston branch of the northern pacific railroad about seven last night at kendrick tho the train was an extra freight of fifteen cars loaded with railroad iron for tho the northern pacific extension and was drawn by two engines the dead are engineers arthur E bain and jno A Or ardeno deno fireman earl eari bradshaw and Drake brakeman maa A nudge budge all ot of spokane fatally injured fireman jno peterman of spokane the rails ralls were covered with feeland ice awl snow and in descending the long steep grade leadin leading ginto into kendrick the trainmen lost control ot of the train and it dashed lull down the grade at a terrific speed after a run of three miles down the mountain elde side four cars broke loose and were ditched the track being torn up for a distance of more than a quarter of a mile after another mile and a halt run the rest of the hying flying train struck the yards at kendrick and the engines ant and care cars were ditched and piled up in a confused cont used mass the two engineers and fireman bradshaw Brads Raw and peterman were caught in the wreck and the three former instantly killed peterman was taken out with a broken leg and be is thought to be internally injured he ile cannot recover brakeman budge jumped a minute before the crash came but both his legs logs were broken and ho he died a few minutes later with rare presence presence of mind the conductor cut the caboose loose before the train got under full headway and thus saved himself and the life of the rear brakeman |