TRIPLE WRECK IS FATAL ENGINEMEN
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PETER JESSEN OF CHEYENNE IS ONE OF VICTIMS
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J. E. M'CARTHY OF DENVER ALSO MEETS DEATH WHEN DERAILMENT OF EASTBOUND C. P. FREIGHT CAUSES COLLISION WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN.
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Peter Jessen of 401 street, East Tenth died a little before 9 o'clock last night at St. John's hospital as the result of being badly scalded yesterday morning at the scene of a train wreck on the Union Pacific one and a half miles east of Granite Canyon and seventeen miles from Cheyenne. Jessen was engineer of a wrecking crane which tipped over on its side from some unknown cause while attempting to lift wreckage from the track.
Though Jessen was able to walk to the automobile from the wreck and from the automobile into the hospital, and was conscious nearly all day, his burns were so extensive he could not recover. Funeral arrangements will be made tomorrow.
J. E. McCarthy, of Denver, fireman on the engine of the westbound train, which was hurled from the track when a freight car in the passing eastbound train was derailed and slammed into it is dead. He was pinned in the wreckage and scalded, and died a half hour later.
Traffic, which was suspended all day on the track west from Cheyenne, was resumed at 6 o'clock last night on the west-bound track, and the wreckage is being removed from the eastbound track as rapidly as possible.
The wreck occurred at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning. Extra east engine, 3610, with a freight train, was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when the seventh freight car behind the engine was derailed because of a broken rail. The car swung off the track directly in the way of and against Extra west engine 232 of a passing freight, derailing the engine and tender and sixteen cars of green fruit and other perishables. Three empty gravel cars of the eastbound train also were derailed.
The wrecking train was rushed to the scene of the accident and immediately set about removing the wreckage. But a short time after the fatally burned fireman had been removed from the wreckage the wrecking engine tipped over on its side. Jessen, the engineer, was caught in the escaping steam and boiling water, and though he was rescued immediately his burns were extremely severe.
© Cheyenne State Leader no. 157 July 13, 1919, page 1 & 8
Submitted by Lostnwyomn April 2013.
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PETER JESSEN OF CHEYENNE IS ONE OF VICTIMS
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J. E. M'CARTHY OF DENVER ALSO MEETS DEATH WHEN DERAILMENT OF EASTBOUND C. P. FREIGHT CAUSES COLLISION WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN.
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Peter Jessen of 401 street, East Tenth died a little before 9 o'clock last night at St. John's hospital as the result of being badly scalded yesterday morning at the scene of a train wreck on the Union Pacific one and a half miles east of Granite Canyon and seventeen miles from Cheyenne. Jessen was engineer of a wrecking crane which tipped over on its side from some unknown cause while attempting to lift wreckage from the track.
Though Jessen was able to walk to the automobile from the wreck and from the automobile into the hospital, and was conscious nearly all day, his burns were so extensive he could not recover. Funeral arrangements will be made tomorrow.
J. E. McCarthy, of Denver, fireman on the engine of the westbound train, which was hurled from the track when a freight car in the passing eastbound train was derailed and slammed into it is dead. He was pinned in the wreckage and scalded, and died a half hour later.
Traffic, which was suspended all day on the track west from Cheyenne, was resumed at 6 o'clock last night on the west-bound track, and the wreckage is being removed from the eastbound track as rapidly as possible.
The wreck occurred at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning. Extra east engine, 3610, with a freight train, was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when the seventh freight car behind the engine was derailed because of a broken rail. The car swung off the track directly in the way of and against Extra west engine 232 of a passing freight, derailing the engine and tender and sixteen cars of green fruit and other perishables. Three empty gravel cars of the eastbound train also were derailed.
The wrecking train was rushed to the scene of the accident and immediately set about removing the wreckage. But a short time after the fatally burned fireman had been removed from the wreckage the wrecking engine tipped over on its side. Jessen, the engineer, was caught in the escaping steam and boiling water, and though he was rescued immediately his burns were extremely severe.
© Cheyenne State Leader no. 157 July 13, 1919, page 1 & 8
Submitted by Lostnwyomn April 2013.
TRIPLE WRECK IS FATAL ENGINEMEN
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PETER JESSEN OF CHEYENNE IS ONE OF VICTIMS
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J. E. M'CARTHY OF DENVER ALSO MEETS DEATH WHEN DERAILMENT OF EASTBOUND C. P. FREIGHT CAUSES COLLISION WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN.
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Peter Jessen of 401 street, East Tenth died a little before 9 o'clock last night at St. John's hospital as the result of being badly scalded yesterday morning at the scene of a train wreck on the Union Pacific one and a half miles east of Granite Canyon and seventeen miles from Cheyenne. Jessen was engineer of a wrecking crane which tipped over on its side from some unknown cause while attempting to lift wreckage from the track.
Though Jessen was able to walk to the automobile from the wreck and from the automobile into the hospital, and was conscious nearly all day, his burns were so extensive he could not recover. Funeral arrangements will be made tomorrow.
J. E. McCarthy, of Denver, fireman on the engine of the westbound train, which was hurled from the track when a freight car in the passing eastbound train was derailed and slammed into it is dead. He was pinned in the wreckage and scalded, and died a half hour later.
Traffic, which was suspended all day on the track west from Cheyenne, was resumed at 6 o'clock last night on the west-bound track, and the wreckage is being removed from the eastbound track as rapidly as possible.
The wreck occurred at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning. Extra east engine, 3610, with a freight train, was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when the seventh freight car behind the engine was derailed because of a broken rail. The car swung off the track directly in the way of and against Extra west engine 232 of a passing freight, derailing the engine and tender and sixteen cars of green fruit and other perishables. Three empty gravel cars of the eastbound train also were derailed.
The wrecking train was rushed to the scene of the accident and immediately set about removing the wreckage. But a short time after the fatally burned fireman had been removed from the wreckage the wrecking engine tipped over on its side. Jessen, the engineer, was caught in the escaping steam and boiling water, and though he was rescued immediately his burns were extremely severe.
© Cheyenne State Leader no. 157 July 13, 1919, page 1 & 8
Submitted by Lostnwyomn April 2013.
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PETER JESSEN OF CHEYENNE IS ONE OF VICTIMS
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J. E. M'CARTHY OF DENVER ALSO MEETS DEATH WHEN DERAILMENT OF EASTBOUND C. P. FREIGHT CAUSES COLLISION WITH WESTBOUND TRAIN.
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Peter Jessen of 401 street, East Tenth died a little before 9 o'clock last night at St. John's hospital as the result of being badly scalded yesterday morning at the scene of a train wreck on the Union Pacific one and a half miles east of Granite Canyon and seventeen miles from Cheyenne. Jessen was engineer of a wrecking crane which tipped over on its side from some unknown cause while attempting to lift wreckage from the track.
Though Jessen was able to walk to the automobile from the wreck and from the automobile into the hospital, and was conscious nearly all day, his burns were so extensive he could not recover. Funeral arrangements will be made tomorrow.
J. E. McCarthy, of Denver, fireman on the engine of the westbound train, which was hurled from the track when a freight car in the passing eastbound train was derailed and slammed into it is dead. He was pinned in the wreckage and scalded, and died a half hour later.
Traffic, which was suspended all day on the track west from Cheyenne, was resumed at 6 o'clock last night on the west-bound track, and the wreckage is being removed from the eastbound track as rapidly as possible.
The wreck occurred at 6:05 o'clock yesterday morning. Extra east engine, 3610, with a freight train, was traveling at the rate of twenty miles an hour when the seventh freight car behind the engine was derailed because of a broken rail. The car swung off the track directly in the way of and against Extra west engine 232 of a passing freight, derailing the engine and tender and sixteen cars of green fruit and other perishables. Three empty gravel cars of the eastbound train also were derailed.
The wrecking train was rushed to the scene of the accident and immediately set about removing the wreckage. But a short time after the fatally burned fireman had been removed from the wreckage the wrecking engine tipped over on its side. Jessen, the engineer, was caught in the escaping steam and boiling water, and though he was rescued immediately his burns were extremely severe.
© Cheyenne State Leader no. 157 July 13, 1919, page 1 & 8
Submitted by Lostnwyomn April 2013.
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