TRAINS CRASH IN HEAD-ON COLLISION
One Man Was Killed and a Score or More Passengers were Seriously Injured On the Eastbound Atlantic Express Near Beowawe, Nev.
Beowawe, Nev. Oct. 2. -- A disastrous head-on collision occurred last night on the Salt Lake Division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of the Atlantic Express from San Francisco collided with the second section of a westbound freight train. One passenger was killed and twenty were injured.
THE DEAD
Allan Harper, Pocatello, Idaho. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and a member Knight Templar.
The concussion was so great that when the train collided the first passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned in the wreckage, but death was not instantaneous. Nearly two hours were consumed in extracting his body.
As the point of the accident was on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was impossible to prevent the crash. Both engine crews jumped and bother engines were demolished.
The Bellingham Herald 02 Oct 1903, Fri · Page 1 ~ km
One Man Was Killed and a Score or More Passengers were Seriously Injured On the Eastbound Atlantic Express Near Beowawe, Nev.
Beowawe, Nev. Oct. 2. -- A disastrous head-on collision occurred last night on the Salt Lake Division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of the Atlantic Express from San Francisco collided with the second section of a westbound freight train. One passenger was killed and twenty were injured.
THE DEAD
Allan Harper, Pocatello, Idaho. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and a member Knight Templar.
The concussion was so great that when the train collided the first passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned in the wreckage, but death was not instantaneous. Nearly two hours were consumed in extracting his body.
As the point of the accident was on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was impossible to prevent the crash. Both engine crews jumped and bother engines were demolished.
The Bellingham Herald 02 Oct 1903, Fri · Page 1 ~ km
TRAINS CRASH IN HEAD-ON COLLISION
One Man Was Killed and a Score or More Passengers were Seriously Injured On the Eastbound Atlantic Express Near Beowawe, Nev.
Beowawe, Nev. Oct. 2. -- A disastrous head-on collision occurred last night on the Salt Lake Division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of the Atlantic Express from San Francisco collided with the second section of a westbound freight train. One passenger was killed and twenty were injured.
THE DEAD
Allan Harper, Pocatello, Idaho. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and a member Knight Templar.
The concussion was so great that when the train collided the first passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned in the wreckage, but death was not instantaneous. Nearly two hours were consumed in extracting his body.
As the point of the accident was on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was impossible to prevent the crash. Both engine crews jumped and bother engines were demolished.
The Bellingham Herald 02 Oct 1903, Fri · Page 1 ~ km
One Man Was Killed and a Score or More Passengers were Seriously Injured On the Eastbound Atlantic Express Near Beowawe, Nev.
Beowawe, Nev. Oct. 2. -- A disastrous head-on collision occurred last night on the Salt Lake Division of the Southern Pacific at this station. The first section of the Atlantic Express from San Francisco collided with the second section of a westbound freight train. One passenger was killed and twenty were injured.
THE DEAD
Allan Harper, Pocatello, Idaho. He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors and a member Knight Templar.
The concussion was so great that when the train collided the first passenger coach telescoped the smoking car for half its length. Harper was sitting in the rear end of the smoker and was pinned in the wreckage, but death was not instantaneous. Nearly two hours were consumed in extracting his body.
As the point of the accident was on a curve the passenger engineer did not see the flagman until the trains were almost together and it was impossible to prevent the crash. Both engine crews jumped and bother engines were demolished.
The Bellingham Herald 02 Oct 1903, Fri · Page 1 ~ km
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