Runaway Freight Train
Helena, Mont., Dec. 2.- A freight train of thirty cars loaded with j ber and shingles, going west, gct I yond control on a heavy grade east of j of the Muilen tunnel, on the Northern Pacific road Monday evening, and ran away. Twenty-six cars were ■ tered along a distance of eight miles where the engine left the track. Ed Jarbeau. head brakeman, was thrown down an embankment with several cars and killed. Fireman Toung jumped and escaped with a broken collarbone, severe scalp j wounds and uther injuries. Engineer John Flynn's leg was broken, besides internal injuries. Conductor John j Bean's thigh was brokëïi, his back I wrenched and his shoulder thrown out of joint. For a distance of eight miles the track is badly torn up and it will be forty-eight hours before the damage is repaired. In the meantime through trains are sent around by way of Butte. It is the worst wreek ever known on the Northern Pacific railway, in the point of damage to track and rolling stock.
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