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kVLwt-toiirslt;!1.r.\ NARROW IMWt.Uec.AUi-n. Brunt!I hiI£s! | i VuliijI Freight Engine Awakes Sleeping Car . *,*. Occupants i» Tint? For Rn akfo't.oleA*■aWhat came v. ryj near proving a serious accident occurred on the II. A I» lhvidonof the Milwaukee road Sunday BMrni»|%t OrtoaviUe.The road nos into lt;irtonville on a spar, and in getting in and out of the , town niu't backits train one way. The track near i hrtoaviUe is somewhat as follow*:r-mitFinn*.t.affin i.ndia Ha!!.1 HawkJoUrSIn“Adidays,otliceCOOD• • f lt;Was ( ! that remi« to »n sumjby wtime('out ic tielives DiscandA» had year havlt; I dsjEca - O. Ortonvilk lk-pot. .s j J. -Junction Switch. i froui f E-Big Stone City. j Jj** j M - Mil’*ank.J Thu morning express from St. l’aul a | had run into lt;irtonville and discharged “ ! her[mimwiffrni and was backing out to je i .Inneti.*n switch to start on to Milbank j E1vlt;lf i just as a freight train coming from j tie,c Mill tank ran through Rig stone City per anti made an effort to get the road be- m 1 yond the switch lefore the express j r* j canid get I aek from Orton- ^ l ville eat® the main line. The 41 1 result was that in the dark j foggy morning neither engineer saw the other quick enough to cheek •peed and the sleeping lt;-ar came ■pan the switch just as the freight engine struck the same spot. The freight engineer could not stop his train, but the passenger engineer re-v.*r*ed his engine and brought his train: ••• ' - SFsleeper off the sw itch as the freight engine passes) upon it. The two did not exactlv ivlSdu, but the ornamentations, and rear steps were torn off the sleeper and the 1 silts on the si lea cut as with a cold chisel. The eng; ie w as also considerably damaged. S’eithercar nor engine was derailed and no one was injtital although there w erer- *several people in the car who w ere awak-,cned in time for breakfast at Milbank.Ha-1 the sleeper been twofe* further on the sw itch, it would undoubtedly have been cut in two and serious consequences have followed. The blaui* 'Cems to have rested w ith the freight engineer who sic ild have side tracked his train at Big stone City,MSettee.
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Mitchell Daily Republic
Mitchell, South Dakota, US
Tue, Dec 15, 1885
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