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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1919
Page
8
Denver fireman J. E. McCarthy died after a westbound engine derailed when a passing eastbound freight car was derailed by a broken rail. McCarthy was trapped and scalded, dying half an hour later. West line traffic resumed by evening as wreckage was cleared.
Cheyenne mourns Aunty Pratt beloved for children as a fatal wreck near Granite Canyon claims McCarthy. Funeral for McCarthy at St Mark's Church with Rev Rafter. Jessen family listed among local relations. fruit salvage proceeds planned at wreck site.
An account recalls the early settlement era with Ike Diamond and Diamond Creek, the Castles and Smalleys building homes near Crow Creek, and Constable Castle's memory of Pawnee and Cheyenne encounters with scalpings and night dancing among settlers and Indians.
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