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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1919
Page
16
Jessen, engineer on Extra west 3610, died after being trapped and scalded in wreckage when a derailed freight car struck his engine on the westbound line near Cheyenne. Fireman J. E. McCarthy of Denver died from burns sustained in the crash. Traffic interrupted all day, then resumed on the westbound track.
In Cheyenne the community mourns Auntie Pratt as a beloved figure. The report details a wreck involving a fruit train near Granite Canyon, with Jessen and his family among those affected and Coroner Clyde Early arranging burial for McCarthy. Salvage efforts resume with peaches and plums to be sold at the wreck site today.
A historical reminiscence recounts early settlers led by Ike Diamond and the Castle family arriving at Crow creek, naming Diamond creek and Diamond Peak, with the Castles building homes near Carey Avenue and Constable Castle recalling a Pawnee camp and a Cheyenne scalp display that unsettled settlers through the night.
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