Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 25, 1906
FUNERAL OF T. J. DOLBOW
Funeral services over the body of Thomas J. Dolbow, one of the casualties of the Great Northern wreck in Camden, will be conducted at his home, E 2102 Pacific avenue, tomorrow afternoon. The funeral services will be preached by Rev. J. D. ?? of the Corbin Park Congregational church. The interment will be at Greenwood cemetery.
Dolbow was a member of the ?llow and Woodmen lodges at ??. Members of the former will act as pallbearers are the service.
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An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country
Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties
State of Washington
Western Historical Publishing Company
Spokane - Publishers 1904
Pages 817-818
THOMAS J. DOLBOW, who is engaged in the real estate, loans and insurance business in Washtucna, was born in Griggsville, Illinois, March 31, 1862. He was the son of William and Ruth (Spence) Dolbow, the father a native of Illinois, born in the same house as was the subject of our sketch, and the mother a native of Ohio. The father died in Griggsville in 1896, and the mother in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1874. They were parents of five children, Thomas J., Jennie, Lillie, Maggie, and Fred. Mr. Dolbow's mother was of German-English descent and his father's people came originally from Germany.
At the age of ten years Thomas Dolbow began life independent of all his kindred, and at twelve he hired to a man for whom he worked nine years. At twenty-one he went to Minnesota, where he worked as a farm hand and later as a special collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He remained with this company for two years, then entered the employ of Deering Harvesting Machinery Company, with which he remained three years. He then returned to Illinois, farmed two years, after which he engaged in the hardware and farm implements business in Minnesota.
By this time he had amassed a snug fortune, but through the dishonesty of a business partner he lost twenty-seven thousand dollars and was compelled to abandon his business. He then engaged as an organizer of the lodges of the Modern Woodmen and was thus employed two years. He came to Washington and to Washtucna in July, 1898. He engaged in the grain buying business for two years, then entered his present business. He came to the town with just five hundred and thirty-five dollars, but he is now one of the well-to-do men of Adams county.
He purchased a section of land during the year of his advent into the county and two years later sold it at a profit of seven thousand dollars. He then purchased three and one-half sections of land which he now owns. He also owns two acres of city property where he lives in one of the best homes in the town, besides some property in Warrenton, Oregon.
In 1889 Mr. Dolbow was married to Nettie Emery, daughter of J. L. and Margaret (McCalister) Emery, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Scotland. Mrs. Dolbow's brothers and sisters are Lizzie, deceased, Mary, Margaret, and George, now deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dolbow have been born four children, Bertha, George, Floyd and Vera.
Mr. Dolbow is a Republican, and at the hands of his party he has served his county as deputy sheriff. He is now a member of the town council. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Rebekahs, and the M. W. A. His wife also is a Rebekah, and both are members of the Congregational church.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 24, 1906
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Seven Bodies Believed to be Lying at the Bottom of Diamond Lake in Wrecked Cars.
Nine persons killed and seven of these lying at the bottom of Diamond lake among the wreckage of a Great Northern Passenger train, and a number more seriously injured is the latest report from Camden, where the train, bound for Spokane at 4:18 last night, apparently running wild through the tunnel, bounded from the track and plunged into the lake.
The passengers seemed to have a premonition of impending disaster, but it was, probably, simply uneasiness at the great speed of the train as it neared the fatal bend. The men were speaking of the danger of such fast travel and just before the engine cleared the tunnel it may have come to the minds of many that they were riding down hill behind a runaway engine.
Then the crash came. The engine tore through the rails at the curve and made straight for the lake. As the huge locomotive plunged under the water, it drew down the mail coach, the baggage car, the smoker and day cars.
Fire and Water.
There was no time to avert disaster, as the coaches struck the water there was a blinding flash from the explosion of the acetyline gas tanks and in a minute there was a fire in the lake which added to the horror of the situation. Some of the passengers broke the windows and fought their way out, before the smoking car was filled with water and the fire extinguished.
Some of the luckier ones were frightfully burned and scorched by the flame and heat. Others were caught in the car, smothered by the waters, or blinded by the flames. Seen or perhaps more are believed to remain, waiting for divers to come clear across the state to bring up their bodies from the wreckage at the bottom of the lake.
Many of the passengers in the back coaches were uninjured and the scene as they gathered around those who had escaped from the wrecked coaches will long be remembered. There appeared little panic. Train men sent word with all speed to nearby towns for help and medical aid. Those on the ground did what they could to save those imprisoned, in some cases the task was hopeless.
Two Bodies Recovered.
The two bodies recovered, those of George H. Curtice and T. J. Dolbow, were brought to this city last night. It was reported at the Great Northern offices this morning that the rest of the bodies would probably not be recovered until a diver arrives from Seattle and he will be unable to reach the wreck until tomorrow.
The wrecking crew arrived at the scene of the disaster late last night and has been working on the submerged cars. It is thought the mall car will be raised by this afternoon and there is a chance of the workmen capturing some of the other bodies, but the engineer and fireman who went down with the engine will probably remain under water until the diver from Seattle arrives.
Whose who were injured were brought to this city but none are fatally injured, it being reported as the hospitals that they were all getting along nicely and are being attended by the company's physician, Dr. Henry Powell.
When Wreck Occurred
The wreck occurred yesterday afternoon about a quarter after 4, just after the westbound overland passenger, No. 3, emerged from tunnel No. 11. The train was traveling at a high rate of speed and it is believed by many that the engineer, N. E. Munson of Hillyard, had lost control of his engine or else had lose his head, for the train was going swifter than was safe around the many curves along that part of the road.
Both engineer Munson and his fireman, George Bell of Hillyard, are believed to be buried with the engine. Besides these two, it is known that Charles Danner, the mail clerk, of this city, and the baggageman, George R. Strickland of Kalispell, Montana, are still beneath the water. Ed Newcomb of this city and two other bodies are also reported to be pinioned in the wrecked cars below the water.
Those injured
Of the injured there are reported:
Pete Nelson of the Nagel hotel, Spokane, head cut and badly bruised.
M. E. Cash, road overseer, Sandpoint, right arm bruised.
Thomas Holland, Usk, WA, arm cut.
H. Killeen, checker, Great Northern, St. Paul, Minnesota, back slightly injured.
E. E. Hall, Newport, WA., right hand and face burned and cut.
J. E. Byorum, Minot, N.D., burned and crushed internally.
Louie Milinks (Austrian), Spokane, hand cut by glass.
C. G. Mihills, timber cruiser, Spokane, hands and head badly burned.
E. B. Newcomb, traveling salesman for Griusfelder & Co., Spokane, bruised hand. (no relation to man killed)
A half score others were badly shaken up and received minor injuries, which were forgotten in the endeavor to aid others who were suffering.
Over a Fifty Foot Bank
The train left the rails at the west exit of the tunnel, one and one half miles east of Camden, and plunged downward over the 50 foot bank into the deep waters of Diamond lake. The engine, tender, mail and baggage cars are completely submerged, while the three passenger coaches coupled directly behind were thrown down the steep bank and rest on their sides amid the boulders and sharp rocks almost at the water's edge. The dining car No. 703 and palace car "Chelan" No. 945, alone remain on the rails.
Is Still A Mystery
What caused the wreck is a mystery, and will probably remain unsolved. One face alone the passengers are unanimous in claiming, and that is that the train was running at an exceedingly high rate of speed. The grade at this point is a 2 per cent, and the road is full of sharp curves, and is a dangerous piece of road at best. Some claim that the engine left the track in the tunnel, a conclusion possibly justified by the large number of broken pieces of engine iron lying near the tunnel mouth.
Trainmen Do Good Work
The conductor and brakeman were highly praised by passengers who escaped. Though badly shaken up and cut by flying glass, they took charge in a clear headed manner. Word was sent to Camden, Elk and Milan for medical aid.
One doctor came from Milan and one from Elk, being carried to the scene of the wreck by freight engine No. 760, Engineer I. G. Sauter. He made a record run and soon the needed bandages and other necessities were at hand and the suffering one made easier by the skillful work of the two doctors and their lady aids. The worst injured were placed in freight caboose No. 0294 and their wants attended until the hospital trains arrived at 3 p.m.
The searchers began to drag bodies about the lower end of the smoker, which lay partially under water. At 7:08 the body of Mr. Curtice was raised and dragged to shore over the top of the coach. At 7:15 T. J. Dolbow's body was brought to the surface. These bodies were wrapped in blankets and carried up the steep grade and laid beside the tracks by passengers.
Messers Curtice and Dolbow and C. G. Mihills, and Ed Newcomb were sitting in the extreme front of the smoker when the crash came. Mr. Mihills, a timber cruiser in the employ of Mr. Curtice, said in regard to the first shock:
Mihills Tells of Wreck
"I was sitting with Mr. Curtice when the wreck occurred. The train seemed to be running at an exceptional rate of speed - faster than I have ever experienced before at that point on the road. Just as we passed the tunnel the crash came. I was in the same seat with Mr. Curtice. We braced ourselves for a second shock, when the acetylene tank, which is used for lighting the cars, exploded as it came in contact with the water of the river. The white light completely blinded me. I threw up my hands to protect my eyes. How I got out I don't know. Flames were pouring out of the windows and I could not go back into the coach to get Mr. Curtice, as I was badly burned already and could not pass the flames."
Mihills was overwhelmed by the death of Mr. Curtice. Especially, he says, does he remember his last words before the fatal crash: "I don't like this," said Mr. Curtice, speaking of the high speed and swaying of the car around the sharp curves. "Neither do I," said Mihills, and was about to suggest going to the next car back when the wreck occurred.
Two bodies are known to be in the wreckage of the smoker under the water. The shirt of one man was town from his body by the grappling hooks, while at another point a coat was pulled from another in the attempt to raise his pinioned body. The bodies of the engineer, fireman, baggageman and mail clerk could not be recovered last night. One of the unrecovered bodies is known to be that of Ed Newcomb, while a sti? hat was found floating on the water bearing the initials "G. L. T.". In the hat was a ticket marked destination station 73. The hat bears a Portland firm's name.
∼Adams County News, Thursday, July 25, 1906, issue
T. J. Dolbow of Spokane, formerly of the southern part of this county, was killed in a wreck on the Great Northern railroad about thirty-five miles east of Spokane. Nine persons were killed or seriously injured in this wreck and the engine was buried in 125 feet of water in Diamond Lake.
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FATHER: William Dolbow
Birth 1837 • Illinois
Death 1897 • Pike County, Illinois
MOTHER: Ruth Ann Spence
Birth ABT 1840 • Ohio
Death ABOUT 1874
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas
FUNERAL OF T. J. DOLBOW
Funeral services over the body of Thomas J. Dolbow, one of the casualties of the Great Northern wreck in Camden, will be conducted at his home, E 2102 Pacific avenue, tomorrow afternoon. The funeral services will be preached by Rev. J. D. ?? of the Corbin Park Congregational church. The interment will be at Greenwood cemetery.
Dolbow was a member of the ?llow and Woodmen lodges at ??. Members of the former will act as pallbearers are the service.
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An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country
Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties
State of Washington
Western Historical Publishing Company
Spokane - Publishers 1904
Pages 817-818
THOMAS J. DOLBOW, who is engaged in the real estate, loans and insurance business in Washtucna, was born in Griggsville, Illinois, March 31, 1862. He was the son of William and Ruth (Spence) Dolbow, the father a native of Illinois, born in the same house as was the subject of our sketch, and the mother a native of Ohio. The father died in Griggsville in 1896, and the mother in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1874. They were parents of five children, Thomas J., Jennie, Lillie, Maggie, and Fred. Mr. Dolbow's mother was of German-English descent and his father's people came originally from Germany.
At the age of ten years Thomas Dolbow began life independent of all his kindred, and at twelve he hired to a man for whom he worked nine years. At twenty-one he went to Minnesota, where he worked as a farm hand and later as a special collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He remained with this company for two years, then entered the employ of Deering Harvesting Machinery Company, with which he remained three years. He then returned to Illinois, farmed two years, after which he engaged in the hardware and farm implements business in Minnesota.
By this time he had amassed a snug fortune, but through the dishonesty of a business partner he lost twenty-seven thousand dollars and was compelled to abandon his business. He then engaged as an organizer of the lodges of the Modern Woodmen and was thus employed two years. He came to Washington and to Washtucna in July, 1898. He engaged in the grain buying business for two years, then entered his present business. He came to the town with just five hundred and thirty-five dollars, but he is now one of the well-to-do men of Adams county.
He purchased a section of land during the year of his advent into the county and two years later sold it at a profit of seven thousand dollars. He then purchased three and one-half sections of land which he now owns. He also owns two acres of city property where he lives in one of the best homes in the town, besides some property in Warrenton, Oregon.
In 1889 Mr. Dolbow was married to Nettie Emery, daughter of J. L. and Margaret (McCalister) Emery, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Scotland. Mrs. Dolbow's brothers and sisters are Lizzie, deceased, Mary, Margaret, and George, now deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dolbow have been born four children, Bertha, George, Floyd and Vera.
Mr. Dolbow is a Republican, and at the hands of his party he has served his county as deputy sheriff. He is now a member of the town council. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Rebekahs, and the M. W. A. His wife also is a Rebekah, and both are members of the Congregational church.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 24, 1906
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Seven Bodies Believed to be Lying at the Bottom of Diamond Lake in Wrecked Cars.
Nine persons killed and seven of these lying at the bottom of Diamond lake among the wreckage of a Great Northern Passenger train, and a number more seriously injured is the latest report from Camden, where the train, bound for Spokane at 4:18 last night, apparently running wild through the tunnel, bounded from the track and plunged into the lake.
The passengers seemed to have a premonition of impending disaster, but it was, probably, simply uneasiness at the great speed of the train as it neared the fatal bend. The men were speaking of the danger of such fast travel and just before the engine cleared the tunnel it may have come to the minds of many that they were riding down hill behind a runaway engine.
Then the crash came. The engine tore through the rails at the curve and made straight for the lake. As the huge locomotive plunged under the water, it drew down the mail coach, the baggage car, the smoker and day cars.
Fire and Water.
There was no time to avert disaster, as the coaches struck the water there was a blinding flash from the explosion of the acetyline gas tanks and in a minute there was a fire in the lake which added to the horror of the situation. Some of the passengers broke the windows and fought their way out, before the smoking car was filled with water and the fire extinguished.
Some of the luckier ones were frightfully burned and scorched by the flame and heat. Others were caught in the car, smothered by the waters, or blinded by the flames. Seen or perhaps more are believed to remain, waiting for divers to come clear across the state to bring up their bodies from the wreckage at the bottom of the lake.
Many of the passengers in the back coaches were uninjured and the scene as they gathered around those who had escaped from the wrecked coaches will long be remembered. There appeared little panic. Train men sent word with all speed to nearby towns for help and medical aid. Those on the ground did what they could to save those imprisoned, in some cases the task was hopeless.
Two Bodies Recovered.
The two bodies recovered, those of George H. Curtice and T. J. Dolbow, were brought to this city last night. It was reported at the Great Northern offices this morning that the rest of the bodies would probably not be recovered until a diver arrives from Seattle and he will be unable to reach the wreck until tomorrow.
The wrecking crew arrived at the scene of the disaster late last night and has been working on the submerged cars. It is thought the mall car will be raised by this afternoon and there is a chance of the workmen capturing some of the other bodies, but the engineer and fireman who went down with the engine will probably remain under water until the diver from Seattle arrives.
Whose who were injured were brought to this city but none are fatally injured, it being reported as the hospitals that they were all getting along nicely and are being attended by the company's physician, Dr. Henry Powell.
When Wreck Occurred
The wreck occurred yesterday afternoon about a quarter after 4, just after the westbound overland passenger, No. 3, emerged from tunnel No. 11. The train was traveling at a high rate of speed and it is believed by many that the engineer, N. E. Munson of Hillyard, had lost control of his engine or else had lose his head, for the train was going swifter than was safe around the many curves along that part of the road.
Both engineer Munson and his fireman, George Bell of Hillyard, are believed to be buried with the engine. Besides these two, it is known that Charles Danner, the mail clerk, of this city, and the baggageman, George R. Strickland of Kalispell, Montana, are still beneath the water. Ed Newcomb of this city and two other bodies are also reported to be pinioned in the wrecked cars below the water.
Those injured
Of the injured there are reported:
Pete Nelson of the Nagel hotel, Spokane, head cut and badly bruised.
M. E. Cash, road overseer, Sandpoint, right arm bruised.
Thomas Holland, Usk, WA, arm cut.
H. Killeen, checker, Great Northern, St. Paul, Minnesota, back slightly injured.
E. E. Hall, Newport, WA., right hand and face burned and cut.
J. E. Byorum, Minot, N.D., burned and crushed internally.
Louie Milinks (Austrian), Spokane, hand cut by glass.
C. G. Mihills, timber cruiser, Spokane, hands and head badly burned.
E. B. Newcomb, traveling salesman for Griusfelder & Co., Spokane, bruised hand. (no relation to man killed)
A half score others were badly shaken up and received minor injuries, which were forgotten in the endeavor to aid others who were suffering.
Over a Fifty Foot Bank
The train left the rails at the west exit of the tunnel, one and one half miles east of Camden, and plunged downward over the 50 foot bank into the deep waters of Diamond lake. The engine, tender, mail and baggage cars are completely submerged, while the three passenger coaches coupled directly behind were thrown down the steep bank and rest on their sides amid the boulders and sharp rocks almost at the water's edge. The dining car No. 703 and palace car "Chelan" No. 945, alone remain on the rails.
Is Still A Mystery
What caused the wreck is a mystery, and will probably remain unsolved. One face alone the passengers are unanimous in claiming, and that is that the train was running at an exceedingly high rate of speed. The grade at this point is a 2 per cent, and the road is full of sharp curves, and is a dangerous piece of road at best. Some claim that the engine left the track in the tunnel, a conclusion possibly justified by the large number of broken pieces of engine iron lying near the tunnel mouth.
Trainmen Do Good Work
The conductor and brakeman were highly praised by passengers who escaped. Though badly shaken up and cut by flying glass, they took charge in a clear headed manner. Word was sent to Camden, Elk and Milan for medical aid.
One doctor came from Milan and one from Elk, being carried to the scene of the wreck by freight engine No. 760, Engineer I. G. Sauter. He made a record run and soon the needed bandages and other necessities were at hand and the suffering one made easier by the skillful work of the two doctors and their lady aids. The worst injured were placed in freight caboose No. 0294 and their wants attended until the hospital trains arrived at 3 p.m.
The searchers began to drag bodies about the lower end of the smoker, which lay partially under water. At 7:08 the body of Mr. Curtice was raised and dragged to shore over the top of the coach. At 7:15 T. J. Dolbow's body was brought to the surface. These bodies were wrapped in blankets and carried up the steep grade and laid beside the tracks by passengers.
Messers Curtice and Dolbow and C. G. Mihills, and Ed Newcomb were sitting in the extreme front of the smoker when the crash came. Mr. Mihills, a timber cruiser in the employ of Mr. Curtice, said in regard to the first shock:
Mihills Tells of Wreck
"I was sitting with Mr. Curtice when the wreck occurred. The train seemed to be running at an exceptional rate of speed - faster than I have ever experienced before at that point on the road. Just as we passed the tunnel the crash came. I was in the same seat with Mr. Curtice. We braced ourselves for a second shock, when the acetylene tank, which is used for lighting the cars, exploded as it came in contact with the water of the river. The white light completely blinded me. I threw up my hands to protect my eyes. How I got out I don't know. Flames were pouring out of the windows and I could not go back into the coach to get Mr. Curtice, as I was badly burned already and could not pass the flames."
Mihills was overwhelmed by the death of Mr. Curtice. Especially, he says, does he remember his last words before the fatal crash: "I don't like this," said Mr. Curtice, speaking of the high speed and swaying of the car around the sharp curves. "Neither do I," said Mihills, and was about to suggest going to the next car back when the wreck occurred.
Two bodies are known to be in the wreckage of the smoker under the water. The shirt of one man was town from his body by the grappling hooks, while at another point a coat was pulled from another in the attempt to raise his pinioned body. The bodies of the engineer, fireman, baggageman and mail clerk could not be recovered last night. One of the unrecovered bodies is known to be that of Ed Newcomb, while a sti? hat was found floating on the water bearing the initials "G. L. T.". In the hat was a ticket marked destination station 73. The hat bears a Portland firm's name.
∼Adams County News, Thursday, July 25, 1906, issue
T. J. Dolbow of Spokane, formerly of the southern part of this county, was killed in a wreck on the Great Northern railroad about thirty-five miles east of Spokane. Nine persons were killed or seriously injured in this wreck and the engine was buried in 125 feet of water in Diamond Lake.
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FATHER: William Dolbow
Birth 1837 • Illinois
Death 1897 • Pike County, Illinois
MOTHER: Ruth Ann Spence
Birth ABT 1840 • Ohio
Death ABOUT 1874
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas
Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 25, 1906
FUNERAL OF T. J. DOLBOW
Funeral services over the body of Thomas J. Dolbow, one of the casualties of the Great Northern wreck in Camden, will be conducted at his home, E 2102 Pacific avenue, tomorrow afternoon. The funeral services will be preached by Rev. J. D. ?? of the Corbin Park Congregational church. The interment will be at Greenwood cemetery.
Dolbow was a member of the ?llow and Woodmen lodges at ??. Members of the former will act as pallbearers are the service.
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An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country
Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties
State of Washington
Western Historical Publishing Company
Spokane - Publishers 1904
Pages 817-818
THOMAS J. DOLBOW, who is engaged in the real estate, loans and insurance business in Washtucna, was born in Griggsville, Illinois, March 31, 1862. He was the son of William and Ruth (Spence) Dolbow, the father a native of Illinois, born in the same house as was the subject of our sketch, and the mother a native of Ohio. The father died in Griggsville in 1896, and the mother in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1874. They were parents of five children, Thomas J., Jennie, Lillie, Maggie, and Fred. Mr. Dolbow's mother was of German-English descent and his father's people came originally from Germany.
At the age of ten years Thomas Dolbow began life independent of all his kindred, and at twelve he hired to a man for whom he worked nine years. At twenty-one he went to Minnesota, where he worked as a farm hand and later as a special collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He remained with this company for two years, then entered the employ of Deering Harvesting Machinery Company, with which he remained three years. He then returned to Illinois, farmed two years, after which he engaged in the hardware and farm implements business in Minnesota.
By this time he had amassed a snug fortune, but through the dishonesty of a business partner he lost twenty-seven thousand dollars and was compelled to abandon his business. He then engaged as an organizer of the lodges of the Modern Woodmen and was thus employed two years. He came to Washington and to Washtucna in July, 1898. He engaged in the grain buying business for two years, then entered his present business. He came to the town with just five hundred and thirty-five dollars, but he is now one of the well-to-do men of Adams county.
He purchased a section of land during the year of his advent into the county and two years later sold it at a profit of seven thousand dollars. He then purchased three and one-half sections of land which he now owns. He also owns two acres of city property where he lives in one of the best homes in the town, besides some property in Warrenton, Oregon.
In 1889 Mr. Dolbow was married to Nettie Emery, daughter of J. L. and Margaret (McCalister) Emery, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Scotland. Mrs. Dolbow's brothers and sisters are Lizzie, deceased, Mary, Margaret, and George, now deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dolbow have been born four children, Bertha, George, Floyd and Vera.
Mr. Dolbow is a Republican, and at the hands of his party he has served his county as deputy sheriff. He is now a member of the town council. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Rebekahs, and the M. W. A. His wife also is a Rebekah, and both are members of the Congregational church.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 24, 1906
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Seven Bodies Believed to be Lying at the Bottom of Diamond Lake in Wrecked Cars.
Nine persons killed and seven of these lying at the bottom of Diamond lake among the wreckage of a Great Northern Passenger train, and a number more seriously injured is the latest report from Camden, where the train, bound for Spokane at 4:18 last night, apparently running wild through the tunnel, bounded from the track and plunged into the lake.
The passengers seemed to have a premonition of impending disaster, but it was, probably, simply uneasiness at the great speed of the train as it neared the fatal bend. The men were speaking of the danger of such fast travel and just before the engine cleared the tunnel it may have come to the minds of many that they were riding down hill behind a runaway engine.
Then the crash came. The engine tore through the rails at the curve and made straight for the lake. As the huge locomotive plunged under the water, it drew down the mail coach, the baggage car, the smoker and day cars.
Fire and Water.
There was no time to avert disaster, as the coaches struck the water there was a blinding flash from the explosion of the acetyline gas tanks and in a minute there was a fire in the lake which added to the horror of the situation. Some of the passengers broke the windows and fought their way out, before the smoking car was filled with water and the fire extinguished.
Some of the luckier ones were frightfully burned and scorched by the flame and heat. Others were caught in the car, smothered by the waters, or blinded by the flames. Seen or perhaps more are believed to remain, waiting for divers to come clear across the state to bring up their bodies from the wreckage at the bottom of the lake.
Many of the passengers in the back coaches were uninjured and the scene as they gathered around those who had escaped from the wrecked coaches will long be remembered. There appeared little panic. Train men sent word with all speed to nearby towns for help and medical aid. Those on the ground did what they could to save those imprisoned, in some cases the task was hopeless.
Two Bodies Recovered.
The two bodies recovered, those of George H. Curtice and T. J. Dolbow, were brought to this city last night. It was reported at the Great Northern offices this morning that the rest of the bodies would probably not be recovered until a diver arrives from Seattle and he will be unable to reach the wreck until tomorrow.
The wrecking crew arrived at the scene of the disaster late last night and has been working on the submerged cars. It is thought the mall car will be raised by this afternoon and there is a chance of the workmen capturing some of the other bodies, but the engineer and fireman who went down with the engine will probably remain under water until the diver from Seattle arrives.
Whose who were injured were brought to this city but none are fatally injured, it being reported as the hospitals that they were all getting along nicely and are being attended by the company's physician, Dr. Henry Powell.
When Wreck Occurred
The wreck occurred yesterday afternoon about a quarter after 4, just after the westbound overland passenger, No. 3, emerged from tunnel No. 11. The train was traveling at a high rate of speed and it is believed by many that the engineer, N. E. Munson of Hillyard, had lost control of his engine or else had lose his head, for the train was going swifter than was safe around the many curves along that part of the road.
Both engineer Munson and his fireman, George Bell of Hillyard, are believed to be buried with the engine. Besides these two, it is known that Charles Danner, the mail clerk, of this city, and the baggageman, George R. Strickland of Kalispell, Montana, are still beneath the water. Ed Newcomb of this city and two other bodies are also reported to be pinioned in the wrecked cars below the water.
Those injured
Of the injured there are reported:
Pete Nelson of the Nagel hotel, Spokane, head cut and badly bruised.
M. E. Cash, road overseer, Sandpoint, right arm bruised.
Thomas Holland, Usk, WA, arm cut.
H. Killeen, checker, Great Northern, St. Paul, Minnesota, back slightly injured.
E. E. Hall, Newport, WA., right hand and face burned and cut.
J. E. Byorum, Minot, N.D., burned and crushed internally.
Louie Milinks (Austrian), Spokane, hand cut by glass.
C. G. Mihills, timber cruiser, Spokane, hands and head badly burned.
E. B. Newcomb, traveling salesman for Griusfelder & Co., Spokane, bruised hand. (no relation to man killed)
A half score others were badly shaken up and received minor injuries, which were forgotten in the endeavor to aid others who were suffering.
Over a Fifty Foot Bank
The train left the rails at the west exit of the tunnel, one and one half miles east of Camden, and plunged downward over the 50 foot bank into the deep waters of Diamond lake. The engine, tender, mail and baggage cars are completely submerged, while the three passenger coaches coupled directly behind were thrown down the steep bank and rest on their sides amid the boulders and sharp rocks almost at the water's edge. The dining car No. 703 and palace car "Chelan" No. 945, alone remain on the rails.
Is Still A Mystery
What caused the wreck is a mystery, and will probably remain unsolved. One face alone the passengers are unanimous in claiming, and that is that the train was running at an exceedingly high rate of speed. The grade at this point is a 2 per cent, and the road is full of sharp curves, and is a dangerous piece of road at best. Some claim that the engine left the track in the tunnel, a conclusion possibly justified by the large number of broken pieces of engine iron lying near the tunnel mouth.
Trainmen Do Good Work
The conductor and brakeman were highly praised by passengers who escaped. Though badly shaken up and cut by flying glass, they took charge in a clear headed manner. Word was sent to Camden, Elk and Milan for medical aid.
One doctor came from Milan and one from Elk, being carried to the scene of the wreck by freight engine No. 760, Engineer I. G. Sauter. He made a record run and soon the needed bandages and other necessities were at hand and the suffering one made easier by the skillful work of the two doctors and their lady aids. The worst injured were placed in freight caboose No. 0294 and their wants attended until the hospital trains arrived at 3 p.m.
The searchers began to drag bodies about the lower end of the smoker, which lay partially under water. At 7:08 the body of Mr. Curtice was raised and dragged to shore over the top of the coach. At 7:15 T. J. Dolbow's body was brought to the surface. These bodies were wrapped in blankets and carried up the steep grade and laid beside the tracks by passengers.
Messers Curtice and Dolbow and C. G. Mihills, and Ed Newcomb were sitting in the extreme front of the smoker when the crash came. Mr. Mihills, a timber cruiser in the employ of Mr. Curtice, said in regard to the first shock:
Mihills Tells of Wreck
"I was sitting with Mr. Curtice when the wreck occurred. The train seemed to be running at an exceptional rate of speed - faster than I have ever experienced before at that point on the road. Just as we passed the tunnel the crash came. I was in the same seat with Mr. Curtice. We braced ourselves for a second shock, when the acetylene tank, which is used for lighting the cars, exploded as it came in contact with the water of the river. The white light completely blinded me. I threw up my hands to protect my eyes. How I got out I don't know. Flames were pouring out of the windows and I could not go back into the coach to get Mr. Curtice, as I was badly burned already and could not pass the flames."
Mihills was overwhelmed by the death of Mr. Curtice. Especially, he says, does he remember his last words before the fatal crash: "I don't like this," said Mr. Curtice, speaking of the high speed and swaying of the car around the sharp curves. "Neither do I," said Mihills, and was about to suggest going to the next car back when the wreck occurred.
Two bodies are known to be in the wreckage of the smoker under the water. The shirt of one man was town from his body by the grappling hooks, while at another point a coat was pulled from another in the attempt to raise his pinioned body. The bodies of the engineer, fireman, baggageman and mail clerk could not be recovered last night. One of the unrecovered bodies is known to be that of Ed Newcomb, while a sti? hat was found floating on the water bearing the initials "G. L. T.". In the hat was a ticket marked destination station 73. The hat bears a Portland firm's name.
∼Adams County News, Thursday, July 25, 1906, issue
T. J. Dolbow of Spokane, formerly of the southern part of this county, was killed in a wreck on the Great Northern railroad about thirty-five miles east of Spokane. Nine persons were killed or seriously injured in this wreck and the engine was buried in 125 feet of water in Diamond Lake.
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FATHER: William Dolbow
Birth 1837 • Illinois
Death 1897 • Pike County, Illinois
MOTHER: Ruth Ann Spence
Birth ABT 1840 • Ohio
Death ABOUT 1874
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas
FUNERAL OF T. J. DOLBOW
Funeral services over the body of Thomas J. Dolbow, one of the casualties of the Great Northern wreck in Camden, will be conducted at his home, E 2102 Pacific avenue, tomorrow afternoon. The funeral services will be preached by Rev. J. D. ?? of the Corbin Park Congregational church. The interment will be at Greenwood cemetery.
Dolbow was a member of the ?llow and Woodmen lodges at ??. Members of the former will act as pallbearers are the service.
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An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country
Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties
State of Washington
Western Historical Publishing Company
Spokane - Publishers 1904
Pages 817-818
THOMAS J. DOLBOW, who is engaged in the real estate, loans and insurance business in Washtucna, was born in Griggsville, Illinois, March 31, 1862. He was the son of William and Ruth (Spence) Dolbow, the father a native of Illinois, born in the same house as was the subject of our sketch, and the mother a native of Ohio. The father died in Griggsville in 1896, and the mother in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1874. They were parents of five children, Thomas J., Jennie, Lillie, Maggie, and Fred. Mr. Dolbow's mother was of German-English descent and his father's people came originally from Germany.
At the age of ten years Thomas Dolbow began life independent of all his kindred, and at twelve he hired to a man for whom he worked nine years. At twenty-one he went to Minnesota, where he worked as a farm hand and later as a special collector for the Singer Sewing Machine Company. He remained with this company for two years, then entered the employ of Deering Harvesting Machinery Company, with which he remained three years. He then returned to Illinois, farmed two years, after which he engaged in the hardware and farm implements business in Minnesota.
By this time he had amassed a snug fortune, but through the dishonesty of a business partner he lost twenty-seven thousand dollars and was compelled to abandon his business. He then engaged as an organizer of the lodges of the Modern Woodmen and was thus employed two years. He came to Washington and to Washtucna in July, 1898. He engaged in the grain buying business for two years, then entered his present business. He came to the town with just five hundred and thirty-five dollars, but he is now one of the well-to-do men of Adams county.
He purchased a section of land during the year of his advent into the county and two years later sold it at a profit of seven thousand dollars. He then purchased three and one-half sections of land which he now owns. He also owns two acres of city property where he lives in one of the best homes in the town, besides some property in Warrenton, Oregon.
In 1889 Mr. Dolbow was married to Nettie Emery, daughter of J. L. and Margaret (McCalister) Emery, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Scotland. Mrs. Dolbow's brothers and sisters are Lizzie, deceased, Mary, Margaret, and George, now deceased.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dolbow have been born four children, Bertha, George, Floyd and Vera.
Mr. Dolbow is a Republican, and at the hands of his party he has served his county as deputy sheriff. He is now a member of the town council. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Rebekahs, and the M. W. A. His wife also is a Rebekah, and both are members of the Congregational church.
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Spokane Daily Chronicle - Jul 24, 1906
NINE KILLED AND MANY INJURED
Seven Bodies Believed to be Lying at the Bottom of Diamond Lake in Wrecked Cars.
Nine persons killed and seven of these lying at the bottom of Diamond lake among the wreckage of a Great Northern Passenger train, and a number more seriously injured is the latest report from Camden, where the train, bound for Spokane at 4:18 last night, apparently running wild through the tunnel, bounded from the track and plunged into the lake.
The passengers seemed to have a premonition of impending disaster, but it was, probably, simply uneasiness at the great speed of the train as it neared the fatal bend. The men were speaking of the danger of such fast travel and just before the engine cleared the tunnel it may have come to the minds of many that they were riding down hill behind a runaway engine.
Then the crash came. The engine tore through the rails at the curve and made straight for the lake. As the huge locomotive plunged under the water, it drew down the mail coach, the baggage car, the smoker and day cars.
Fire and Water.
There was no time to avert disaster, as the coaches struck the water there was a blinding flash from the explosion of the acetyline gas tanks and in a minute there was a fire in the lake which added to the horror of the situation. Some of the passengers broke the windows and fought their way out, before the smoking car was filled with water and the fire extinguished.
Some of the luckier ones were frightfully burned and scorched by the flame and heat. Others were caught in the car, smothered by the waters, or blinded by the flames. Seen or perhaps more are believed to remain, waiting for divers to come clear across the state to bring up their bodies from the wreckage at the bottom of the lake.
Many of the passengers in the back coaches were uninjured and the scene as they gathered around those who had escaped from the wrecked coaches will long be remembered. There appeared little panic. Train men sent word with all speed to nearby towns for help and medical aid. Those on the ground did what they could to save those imprisoned, in some cases the task was hopeless.
Two Bodies Recovered.
The two bodies recovered, those of George H. Curtice and T. J. Dolbow, were brought to this city last night. It was reported at the Great Northern offices this morning that the rest of the bodies would probably not be recovered until a diver arrives from Seattle and he will be unable to reach the wreck until tomorrow.
The wrecking crew arrived at the scene of the disaster late last night and has been working on the submerged cars. It is thought the mall car will be raised by this afternoon and there is a chance of the workmen capturing some of the other bodies, but the engineer and fireman who went down with the engine will probably remain under water until the diver from Seattle arrives.
Whose who were injured were brought to this city but none are fatally injured, it being reported as the hospitals that they were all getting along nicely and are being attended by the company's physician, Dr. Henry Powell.
When Wreck Occurred
The wreck occurred yesterday afternoon about a quarter after 4, just after the westbound overland passenger, No. 3, emerged from tunnel No. 11. The train was traveling at a high rate of speed and it is believed by many that the engineer, N. E. Munson of Hillyard, had lost control of his engine or else had lose his head, for the train was going swifter than was safe around the many curves along that part of the road.
Both engineer Munson and his fireman, George Bell of Hillyard, are believed to be buried with the engine. Besides these two, it is known that Charles Danner, the mail clerk, of this city, and the baggageman, George R. Strickland of Kalispell, Montana, are still beneath the water. Ed Newcomb of this city and two other bodies are also reported to be pinioned in the wrecked cars below the water.
Those injured
Of the injured there are reported:
Pete Nelson of the Nagel hotel, Spokane, head cut and badly bruised.
M. E. Cash, road overseer, Sandpoint, right arm bruised.
Thomas Holland, Usk, WA, arm cut.
H. Killeen, checker, Great Northern, St. Paul, Minnesota, back slightly injured.
E. E. Hall, Newport, WA., right hand and face burned and cut.
J. E. Byorum, Minot, N.D., burned and crushed internally.
Louie Milinks (Austrian), Spokane, hand cut by glass.
C. G. Mihills, timber cruiser, Spokane, hands and head badly burned.
E. B. Newcomb, traveling salesman for Griusfelder & Co., Spokane, bruised hand. (no relation to man killed)
A half score others were badly shaken up and received minor injuries, which were forgotten in the endeavor to aid others who were suffering.
Over a Fifty Foot Bank
The train left the rails at the west exit of the tunnel, one and one half miles east of Camden, and plunged downward over the 50 foot bank into the deep waters of Diamond lake. The engine, tender, mail and baggage cars are completely submerged, while the three passenger coaches coupled directly behind were thrown down the steep bank and rest on their sides amid the boulders and sharp rocks almost at the water's edge. The dining car No. 703 and palace car "Chelan" No. 945, alone remain on the rails.
Is Still A Mystery
What caused the wreck is a mystery, and will probably remain unsolved. One face alone the passengers are unanimous in claiming, and that is that the train was running at an exceedingly high rate of speed. The grade at this point is a 2 per cent, and the road is full of sharp curves, and is a dangerous piece of road at best. Some claim that the engine left the track in the tunnel, a conclusion possibly justified by the large number of broken pieces of engine iron lying near the tunnel mouth.
Trainmen Do Good Work
The conductor and brakeman were highly praised by passengers who escaped. Though badly shaken up and cut by flying glass, they took charge in a clear headed manner. Word was sent to Camden, Elk and Milan for medical aid.
One doctor came from Milan and one from Elk, being carried to the scene of the wreck by freight engine No. 760, Engineer I. G. Sauter. He made a record run and soon the needed bandages and other necessities were at hand and the suffering one made easier by the skillful work of the two doctors and their lady aids. The worst injured were placed in freight caboose No. 0294 and their wants attended until the hospital trains arrived at 3 p.m.
The searchers began to drag bodies about the lower end of the smoker, which lay partially under water. At 7:08 the body of Mr. Curtice was raised and dragged to shore over the top of the coach. At 7:15 T. J. Dolbow's body was brought to the surface. These bodies were wrapped in blankets and carried up the steep grade and laid beside the tracks by passengers.
Messers Curtice and Dolbow and C. G. Mihills, and Ed Newcomb were sitting in the extreme front of the smoker when the crash came. Mr. Mihills, a timber cruiser in the employ of Mr. Curtice, said in regard to the first shock:
Mihills Tells of Wreck
"I was sitting with Mr. Curtice when the wreck occurred. The train seemed to be running at an exceptional rate of speed - faster than I have ever experienced before at that point on the road. Just as we passed the tunnel the crash came. I was in the same seat with Mr. Curtice. We braced ourselves for a second shock, when the acetylene tank, which is used for lighting the cars, exploded as it came in contact with the water of the river. The white light completely blinded me. I threw up my hands to protect my eyes. How I got out I don't know. Flames were pouring out of the windows and I could not go back into the coach to get Mr. Curtice, as I was badly burned already and could not pass the flames."
Mihills was overwhelmed by the death of Mr. Curtice. Especially, he says, does he remember his last words before the fatal crash: "I don't like this," said Mr. Curtice, speaking of the high speed and swaying of the car around the sharp curves. "Neither do I," said Mihills, and was about to suggest going to the next car back when the wreck occurred.
Two bodies are known to be in the wreckage of the smoker under the water. The shirt of one man was town from his body by the grappling hooks, while at another point a coat was pulled from another in the attempt to raise his pinioned body. The bodies of the engineer, fireman, baggageman and mail clerk could not be recovered last night. One of the unrecovered bodies is known to be that of Ed Newcomb, while a sti? hat was found floating on the water bearing the initials "G. L. T.". In the hat was a ticket marked destination station 73. The hat bears a Portland firm's name.
∼Adams County News, Thursday, July 25, 1906, issue
T. J. Dolbow of Spokane, formerly of the southern part of this county, was killed in a wreck on the Great Northern railroad about thirty-five miles east of Spokane. Nine persons were killed or seriously injured in this wreck and the engine was buried in 125 feet of water in Diamond Lake.
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FATHER: William Dolbow
Birth 1837 • Illinois
Death 1897 • Pike County, Illinois
MOTHER: Ruth Ann Spence
Birth ABT 1840 • Ohio
Death ABOUT 1874
Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas
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