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RUNAWAY TRAIN PASSENGERS ORDERLYSPOKANE Wash., Jan.Mar# than 200 frightened but orderly passengers sat quietly in a disabled streamlined train Sunday night as it rolled backward down02 i * v 4 /f* i I i)i 1(1 HQ i o JTS1 i r# fihour on the downhill run. Estimates j oI passengers and others ran up i to 30 milts an hour and mot e*a hill in A fire*PCr nillengine oiRailroad s crackJghtin thethe MilwaukeeHiawatha Streamliner^ stalled thetram on a hill east of Kittitas Thi swiftly rolling train was to a halt by crew memblt;passengers who helped applUil brakes on each ca: air brakes failed.injuriesFanned bv the wind as the trail: rolled backward through the night the engine was burning bnghthas the train rolled to a halt on th«western side of Kittitas, Fire d... . .t man*if ter theCalifornia Winer\/wererf'The only by the enRineei and fireman were slightly affected by gas fu as they fought the fireEngineer Edward Maxwell, of Spokane estimated the train r1VPUK n \ hncsFlames Kill One67^11CUCAMONGA CalifIFii remenn pird about three miles draggingdead engine. He and Fireman Dick Liberty, 30. of Spokane w* re driverfrom the tab by gas fume* a.1wine Monda;killed one n.aiestimated at $if 5 ' i £II ft I I I Imi noJan. 30 ? deep inMl H.la used dama ge* to the Pjo*g hi a fire* v■ 4r ^ ^ r * ^6* a- Fmated the tram reachesi aHeedI |1 ineer Vineyard Association.Firefighters heard the screams of Thomas R. Wyllie, 49, from a flaming storage building but they weretriable to reach him.Wyllie s body was found later inside one of the 40,000 gallon vats Firemen said he evidently climbed a t op t tv * u oodlt; n sf r u c t are to esc a pethe flames and then fell in when the super -heated liquid explodedand blew the top off the tank, Wyllie van one of five men onCm* t*r* QtnrXlT rr*W* nr*#*.r a V . -a*!H pcnH’jfr-i, Wtstiie r*hHpft ntff tVtcfchftW)* IWr-CUT! CURAduty in the storag- nr* a that cov ered an acre of dourly packed vats. Or* ,-ts prevented his wife Mable frw» ushing into the flames whenshe .earned her husband was in*sido.About 75 vat* exploded. One blast shook windows mors than a mile* nr • nt* from K U ■ * and ? liensburg snuffed out the blaze Maxwell said he spotted the blazet.hf train climbed up the hill. lieit the power and braked the trainWhj K sli*Thdtop as quickly as Fe could it was still roll ng he and f attacked the fire with ex-hers,g-is from the fjra and px*ishers drove us back LibertyWe used five extinguishers-tarted throwing snow on thetm *£1 9 - frmThWp mu.11 have fought the fire for , rs before the brakes failed/' | said I got caught in the couldn t see anything I just iY nose and finally got to a k We were gassed/*the train started to roll :♦ the nr holding t he bra Netandmlt;* j# *aThe lights were out engine empty as the traina. way,There was nothing * e could do/’ said Liblt; rty. No brakes, no power.no lights We couldn't stay there.Maxwell was coughing badly and holding a handkerchief to his blackened far* as he told how' they piled snow onto toe burning engineGeorge Harris a pu!!rn*n lt;* porter said the pg enger?* he sawknew what was going onThey were frightened all right Rut there wasn't anyone hysterical/’ Harris ^aid There wasn’t much 'alking either Some of them looked out the windows onre m awhile, but not for very longHow fnr did I think we went backward I don't reallv know but it seemed like* 20 milesft
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Austin American Stateman
Austin, Texas, US
Tue, Jan 31, 1950
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