Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 28, 1923, Page 1

| | | { | | | 4, | ‘SVOLUME VII Weather Forecast WYOMING: east portion. fand sl'ghtly warmer. ————— Unsettled and coo!- ‘er tonight, probably rain in south- Friday generally fair CASPER, WYO.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923. ie Flood Damage Piles Up in Storm ANLROADS AND HIGHWAYS ARE WASHED OUT BY GLOUDBURSTS BALL SCORES|| CASUALTY LIST the gume of the New Sept. 28. York Yankees today cracked out his 38th home run of the season in the sixth inning of with Boston. —Babe Ruth a | KNOWN DEAD: D. E, Schultz, baggageman and expressman, Casper, Nicholas Schmeuz, Douglas, Wyo. drowned. oo, ©, A. Mullock, Thermopolis, ‘yo M. Morwitz, address not known. George Evenson, Casper. Mr, and Mrs. Chartes Beck, Du- bois, Wyo. A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And « Booster for City, County and State. Che Casper Baily Tribune FINAL EDITION NUMBER 300. RISH IN WRECK COAC INTO HES TURNED DEATH TRAPS . | 5 > vt AMONG vj ISSING: ~ Damage of Summer Months Repeated in Great) ,, SA7;oyae VPAGTE, | ciate AO Guenther, Douglas, m7 hae rsa | i ss J 3 | pba letanie PN “frit baal ALE Le ‘ D. J. Danker, Brookline, Mass.» A a . e Storms; Rail Service Tied Up Indefinitely; Sign ooo aitaa ato) che: Setigmmese, "| Be ctw, Tamar’ "| Work of Recovering Bodies From Cars Submerged by Flood Thermopolis E: Flood. Pbieccatcchenna pr etrae iearal (BR eset? San'Francigco. | Waters of Cole Creek, 15 Miles East of C polis Escapes Flood. [ Bopa pete H. Watkins, negro, porter, CaspeF.| Mrs, Raleigh Brown and two chil: ’ les Last 0 asper, Ham- — | At Philadetphia— R.H.E.| E. J. Spangier, engincer, Casper. [te Ogden een Caspers en route pered by Torrent; Scenes of Horror Enacted as Train Both Northwestern and miles of track and roadbeds washed away west of Casper. | Burlington railroads report The large fill on the Northwestern near Shoshoni is dam- aged more than it was two months ago when a cloudburst ‘and Wilson. of unprecedented proportions wiped out long stretches of | tracks throughout Central Wyoming. It is further reported by the fNorthwestern that every: bridge on fits line between here and Lander was caught in the downpour and ‘washed out. It has not been pos- gible today to get in touch with any towns west of Shoshoni on the ‘Northwestern by phone or wire. of bridges have collapsed by yester- day's cloudbursts which swept over done during the past two months on the highway bridges and the rail- roads near here has been undone by the cloudbursts of last night. West of here on the Burlington more than 2,000 feet of newly made the floods of two months ago was track and undermined roadbeds. fill to replace that swept away in’ for the time being due to loosened | Boston Philadelphia and 0° Pittsburgh |Chicago _ | New York Boston -102 020 O11— 7 13 Batteries — Marquard, -012 103 004—11 18 0 Oeschger eil; Mitchell, Couch, Weinert At Chicago— | Batterles—Cooper | Aldridge and O'Farrell. R.H.E. 010 000 000—1 6 0 -000 100 10x—2 7 1 and Schmidt; AMERICAN LEAGUE. At Boston— R.H.E. 401 0111 232—24 3 0 -000 30 0 O10— 411 3 Batteries—Smith, Sullivan, Drake, Edmondson and Myatt; Pillette and W. E. Henricks, mailman, Olle Mallon, fireman. E. J. Klove, brakeman, | Guy Griswold, Center Street, Cas- per, Mrs. Minnie Owens, Casper. W. Martin, Casper. KNOWN SURVIVORS. L. Krews, brakeman, Cheyenne. John Downs, Littleton, Colo. 3, M. Shipley, Customs Building, Denver. ’ W. M. Buckley, Lincoln, Neb. Ernest P. Kipp, 1415 Wazzee Street, Denver. Denver, Mrs. Nicholas Schmetz, Douglas, Wyo. Gene Carson, address unknown, Il. M. Gallagher, 519 Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Denver, W. R. Doug'as, Prior Hat Co., Denver, Miss Eva Boyer, Douglas, Wyo. John Spurgin, Carter Gas Plant, Salt Creek, Wyo. G. Phillips, Barber, Okla. John Christie, Parkerton, Wyo. W. A. Robinson, Salida, Colo. Glenrock or MAIL TO BE J. W. Melatz, 343 Elatti street, | Goes Through Bridge; Death Toll Unknown Today | Raging waters, fast caving banks and the worst weather conditions that have |been witnesesd in Wyoming in years are hindering any attempts to recover bodies from the wrecked Burlington train at Cole Creek. It will be some time tomorrow be- ‘fore any bodies can be recovered, according to the estimates of men who have the \work of bringing the coaches out of the swollen stream. zi Latest estimates confirm the reports of this morning that between 40 and 50 have perished in the catastrophe. It has been impossible to check the number of persons in the day coaches but from reports of one or two men who strolled through the train ‘ ther six months will pass be-} washed out; there has been a large Mrs. Don Sullivan, Casper. U s 7 ‘ yy Nie as Chine ‘urlingten and |rock side in the Big Horn river | Batteri jones and Schang;| Genevieve May, Salida, salad INJURED: before the wreck it seems probable that about 80 at the most were on the train when it Quincy railroad is able to reeninh canyon; Teapot bridge between here |Ehmke, Blethen and Pieinich: Henry Wyatt, Casper. oe oe Hiroe, Goodyear Rubber went into the river. Of these approximately 40 have been accounted for. Jish through parseriger and freight |end Riverton {s temporarily dis- ee, Mr. Lewis, Denver. , ver, taken to Douglas, ; ' A i nervice on its line between here and |mantled; train service on the Nort eae Deki: at oi RHE, | J. J. Giblin, Denver. Wyo. Cat A aus RE TeCne wean) perurned to Casper this morning for special equipment and lings, Mont. In three places the | western between here and Riverton ;Clevel ent — < uire, Denver. . I. Gearhart, Denver, tn hos-)returned to Cole Creek a o clock, eecee acs obliterated and a number |and Lander has been discontinued ‘Detroit -.. 752 00° = 7 West 34th St., Den-| Pital at Parkerton. The road from the Yellowstone highwway to the scene of the wreck was strewn with abandoned and stalled automobiles early this afternoon. The road is a sea of central Wyoming. evn ties ce capone ak | Woodall. » | mud and water and many drivers found themselves mired in mud holes two feet deep. Ono million dollars bial sntel 5 creek were all undermined and|_ At St. Louls— | A driving snow which started in the early afternoon and continued all afternoon added to be added to the $ Wuahed “acwhatrear:: Ne, dadthe or [Cnicago <. | to the difficulties under which the wrecking crew is working. damage caused on this railroad two months ago. In ali there will bea total and’ direct loss -epproximately $1,700,000’ and eight months through “traffic. Tris possibie-there willbe @ reduction in these figures but Bur- Ungton officials here expressed themselves as believing otherwise. One bridge is washed out between injuries have been reported. The temporary highway bridge at Bonneville is gone while the ap- proach to the ral}road_bridge east of Bonneville is out. The connecting bridge between here and Bonnevills is also without an approach on the south. \St. Louis Batteries—Cvengros and Danforth and Severeid. FILIPINOS IN SEAPLINE. RAGE COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, Sept. 28.—(By the Associated Press.}— America won the international race SALVAGED IN TRAIN WRECK Postmaster Edwin Bean left early thin morning for the scene of the wreck of Burlington train No. 30, Between 25 and 50 persons, including many from Casper and others with relatives tand:friends here, perished when Chicago, Burlington and Quincy passenger train No. /80, Casper to Denver, crashed through a bridge at Cole Creek, 15 miles east of Casper, jet 9:15 o’clock last night into a stream swollen by flood waters. Coaches were con- verted into death traps and in these cars, lying today submerged in flood waters from a cloudbust that swept down the valley, are the victims of the disaster. | | Bishop and Bucknum, while west of WW : } SE EEK <thieke are two planes [Lot arseeaecL hare today ‘for the Schneider |on’ Cole Creek, where he will at-| Reports from tne acene of the| number 25, but prrvate advices in-/from the rains of the preceding two { where the track has been washed |" ‘rerio MOPOLIS, Wyo., Sept. 28. Seap'ane trophy. The time of the|tempt to recover United States mail| wreck early this afternoon indicated |‘licate that the total may go over)days. Tho bridge had been inspect- i out, totaling about 100 feet of track-! though there Nin beat ik cat MANILA, Sept. 28 I. winner was one hour, 12 minutes} & route to points east and south ofthat it would be impossible to hoist} this figure, there being no accurate) eq by a track walker a half hour age. There, haa been no rafiroac: be-| aeai of rain here no damage of any ated uBex, vt (amid tasuea | 26 4-5 seconds. Casper. the coaches as first intended through | Check on tho number of persons on | .iou5 put the torrent washed . socks Preas,)—-8 . -| County Commissioners Jaci Scott | fear of their being broken to pieces. | the train. ‘ ' tween Lysite and Thermopolls sinc®| consequence has thus far resulted.|from rival political camps predict} The machine piloted by Lieuten inty jack Scott | fear 3 p! out) the’ Bridge i gtline rand | July 24, but repatr work has been |r is reported here that the Burling,| disturbances and possible bloodshed | {nt David Rittenhouse was tho first}and Dr. T. A. Dean of the county| Before all tho bodies are recovered! The locomotive, matl and express|°"" pillng | 6nd swept | pgoing ‘on continuously. ton railroad bridge at Chatham, 15|on October 2, the day of the in- to finish. His average speed was hospital] staff rushed to Cole Creek|{t will be necessary to allow the/cars, the day coach, smoker and away the soft dirt banks on both im, This work has all been destroyed (Continued on Page Four.) gular senatorial election. 177.38 miles an hour, during the night in order that they waters to recede. A railroad offi-|one Pullman were hurled into the! approaches, The train broke in two by the storm last night. A horseshoe The race consisted of five circuits} Might aid in the work of relief. clal estimated that the dead would rising aters of the stream, swollen when the crash came, two Pullmans spur put in just west of Bonneville of a triangular course, each circuit Q remaining on the track. 4 Aa ceetantcant equivalent to 42 land miles. | cates ee a j Severs! minor washoute ere re- The only French machine in the The most: ghashy sight st; the everal min Bavores scene of the tragedy was the body H ported on the Northwestern railroad race came down. The pilot is be jof a dead man sitting cross wise on } east of here but it is expected that | leved to have been unhurt the front truck of the baggage car. | these will all have been repaired by | PP E R FO Ni ED Y “Lieutenant Rutledge Irvine, eo had been ee eee ! late tonight. From west of Shoshoni United States, finished second, an: Waa’ uinéthered: ia:thelatcearhoeseaie no word has been received. It is in Captain H. C. Biard, the sole British upper body was under water, but this direction that the greatest dam- | competitor, Sea Lion II, was third his overall clothed legs stuck out ge is looked for by local officials | Lieutenant Irvine's time was one from the top of the truck fike = of the Northwestern. ; | hour, ae a * s, 6) 1 3 peorce, and, scare crow. The North and South train which | Captain Biard’s one hour, 21 min at ss i left Iilco for Salt Creek this morning | Fn utes, 46 seconds. | Satizintoas There. wereinel Lees at 8 o'clock had not reached its des- Brine woes eee ote Saaper’ laa , Be 8B vrclock had not reacherernoon, PULLman Conductor Coburn, M. A. Rob- |in the water were drowned without| M0"d I) Casper Inst night for the MME On account of the fact that the en : : : Occupants of Pullman Flee to Safety In} wong avic to make an outcry. My S'tho ain gmaies & total, number ) tite Ine of the North and South is inson and Porter Littleton Flirt i i watch, and some valuable] og are known to have been taken newly, made it is probable the soft Night Clothes With Impact of Crash papers and bagg: are missing.| out of the Pullmans and the D. B. i} fills and grading have been washe With Death to Save Lives Kipp and I crawled up the aisie and! schultz, baggage man was thrown nays Jout of the rear vestibule and right| on the east bank with two brole The Yellowstone highway east SaTaaHaNOR NG! Ral, In Gruesome Tragedy lonto therroot of oar No, 21 which| ra. Toner bank witty two) Mreken ‘and west of Casper {s in bad shape | 28.—(By the Associated Press.)— [pee on the very edge of the break.") O¢ the train crew several are be- only in several places, according to| Blackness and death and dark, surging waters ripping | Gene Sarazen and Walter Hagen, John Downs, poultryman of Lit Neved to have pertshed. The crew advices received at the log) office away embankments were defied by three men last night | by virtue of easy victories in the Pullman No. 20 stands today in the Burlington yards, | ton, Colo., was in lower 2 tn car No. included Guy Hoff, conductor: fe aban pe Hae on sean : ‘after Burlington train No, 80 had crumpled into the tor- eek ina roan ec! we meet shunted off on a sidetrack, rain and mist dripping from xe, He _ ms ha maa s ten is pe aie r Ed. Spandler and Fireman x pone nae yin cries. there ts a rents sweeping down Cole Creek 14 miles south of Casper,| {virers association tithe, sarasen |210ng its roof, its aisle sodden and sand covered, its berths jy only my night clothes on when aaa washout in the road 30 feet deep These men were Pullman Conductor L. D. Coburn, M.| won today from Robert Cruick. |in a state of damp disorder. | - __ | we fell through the bridge. I jumped in, the ntream ie bole e ae sormereed \. nnd. 50 feet wide. West near the A, Robinson, and on car No. 20 Porter, 'D. L. Littleton, No. | shank of Westfield, N. 7 and Early this morning survivors from Pullman cars No. | up and picked up Mr. Shipley, Who jodjeg rea esis aan ike ‘WY Big Muddy field a pride was puede 19 stood end up, its smoking com-| hanging onto the very edge of the| 5, and Hagen det George |19, 21, and 20 left this lone coach in the yards and limped | was groping in the water, We both rr were in the ® ae he has ovement | Parement and section 1 and 2 com-)crumbling washout and assisting Boreey of Bronxvii ~ Xw 12 faway in shoes of al! descriptions) public accountants, Martin, Coie & ht get ¢ nd I wa. h c at: tha: tise: and is being use y 2 in pulling people from the slipping] and 11. f al tana tien Ruckley of Lincoln, Neb., was in| rush that I put both legs into one el 3 ) ‘No reports have been. given the | Pletely kc ae ea UDB pag RS ee peroneal sce Aik PEE ain ite of my trouser's legs.” l, im an¢ te 5 masare co Cas- department by points west of) Swerved with the | onrushing cur.) Hecause of the herolsm of these HAM MANOR, N. ¥., Sept. | wens ee eieneton passen.| “I heard not one acream or shout| J. N. Shipley, internal revenueltniy morning ne the wreckeee ener Bhoshoni as all lines are down. teens rinte Dp prenead); a . three there are many who live to The Associated Press.)— ‘r train No, 30 bound for Denver| When the train went tn,” said Buck-| man, who has been in Casper for) hegan tu the ahhativ srteks It will be Highway employes have been | deeper sure ‘or any WhO / tell what happened last night in car me Sarazen, defending his title |) 4. death plunge last night, and| ley. he porter was making up|the past two weeks, was in lower 4/iat6 this aftorn eto standing by all during the day to| had not managed to escape. No. 19. in the Professional Golf associa- |{2,,''8 death DIUNe® No. 21 and 20| berth 1 at the time but he made no|in car 19, “The side of th a wdtiesPaabestiem og) id of i aid in the work of rescuing bodies} ‘Three times Coburn and Robin-| Robinson ts a civil engineer from| tion tournament was four up |(0) Oud out of the wreckage,|0und when the crash came, It {s|was on went completely under the sats: ne eee at the Burlington wreck on Cole|son threw away their chances for|Salida, Colo., who was traveling} when he and Bobby Cruickshank 9 | probable that everyone was stunned| water with the flood rushing in| Henry Wyatt, pioneer resident creek should the call come. HIGHWAY AND RAIL life. , A rope made of bell cords was {geod to guide them and those they |rescued. They went down into the with his wife to that city last night Mrs. Robinson is now tn the hos- had played 18 holes in their 3 hole semi-final match — today. Sarazen went round in 71, three (on the end) out of the wreckage, 19 snapped up such clothes as were immediately at hand, leaped into |at the time and those who wero| (Continued on Page Twelve.) | (Continued on Page Four) jpital here awaiting the birth of a tehm and tore their way to rafety. Shoes were missing in nearly every | case as the Impact and jar of part-| ng couplings sent them under seats | and out of reach. Blackness hit the whole train simultaneously with the wreck. No| time was wasted in searching for} clothes or putting them on. Con? sequently this morning a straggling | line of friends and relatives took to| the survivors the first articles of, REPAIRS GONE. SHOSHONI, Wyo., Sept. 28.— Practically all work that has been lost Pullman, each step a_ step! child. toward eternity. Not only once but] Porter Littleton'’s home ts at 2217 three times. Porter Littleton was|Curtis street in Denver. SALT CREEK FLOODED BY | OIL AND WATER IN STORM under par. Walter Hagen had an easy time with George McLean, being 8 up after 18 holes. TRAIN [IS HURLED FROM TRACK NEAR CHEYENNE BY CYCLONE, IS CLAIM clothing they could lay their hands! train of sixty-seven cara and on, [Forty-seven Freight Cars Piled Up In| ross forty-seven cars tn the can Among those who had been y £ s I baat ¢ faurieen y ° ° No. 1 was forced to abandon his| The Midwest Refining company is] brought back to Casper in coach . ope | Jcars on the rails end. The ‘ Escaping Oil and Damage From Water post, At that ime five feat a| The 2 crews of men from Casper, | No. 20 last night were the follow Storm On Union Pacific; No. wrecked wor rom their water was standing in the building| a in i} ae a nee along tho . * ° to pipe line routes in an attempt to S . ' and all other persons who had been |.) )1. cd ca P. Kipp, western sales man-| § Jdouble tr None of the train In Rich Field to Run Into Big Rhere\ had tictigl algo ‘lett. 1t! was pbs Sg Bhai es ey ent ager of the Hazzard Manufacturing Casualties Are Reported | or i Traffic was de company, of Denver, was in lower ay only when the absolute futility of| ing in all directions from the num ° : : r ' Figures; Bridges 'Are Out Cay sven vimadn atta coenuianten Wout @ in the car 19. It was this Pull- 1 the wind wrecked } g' J 4 over broken , wires was apparent | rus Ureaks. These men will als0| man. that . plunged nosedown a CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 28.—Apprehension regard-| the + 4 other butidings — : DF |be used by the Midwest as messen-| Goig Creek when the bridge went Fi ; 5s : < ’ | t t : that the operator left. gers between here and Salt Creek] (0° Sre said: “I was changing Ing the situation at Pine Bluffs, forty-two miles east, wire |‘ ges pee 4, Balt Creek is today a sea of mud and oll, cut off from | lines radiating trom pump sta-|so that conditions in the fied may| clothes at the time. During the|communication with which was cut off by a storm late ; bedsonc estar the world. ton No. 1 are said to be completely| be constantly ascertained afternoon I had been out at Sat/Thursday afternoon, was relieved when telept : | P ¢ er place The Midwest home camp has undergone complete sub- | “Pte? 874 cracked apart. Should the present storm con-| Creek and in returning to Casper Joba, + ae a sved' when telephone com- 1%; vebotia etuekion mergence and though no casualties have been reported the |¢ 27707", Dae i" and near the| tinue for another 24 hours it will| got wet and just managed to make munication was restored at 9 o’clock this morning. A tor. L of torrential rains in east- loss in damaged property is thought to be | field is out as @ result of the cloud-/in all probability be nec y to|tho train before it pulled out. Iinado swept about seven miles east of Pine Bluf at therr al Wyoming fac (Sahel Satagd taal tt fa i e large. |bursts. Roads are entirely {mpas-|send rélief supplies of food to the} lost both socks and shoes.” Kipp o'clock yesterday afternoon, but the, several hundred visit re 1d Chicago snapped In then bs Mooke when | Country. The loss from escaping |mable. All telephone and telegraph| various oll camps. Already those] still had hia pajamas on under bis |s¢orm was merely a torrential 1 town 1 t were ) F 0 xi! will be tremendous. lined are down. Salt Creek has no| plac: at burn coal have « uit thie morning when he left car|.. me . a3 f vill washed ayey supporting banks of] At 11:30 Inst night the telegraph! rapid means of Ye xan onorr lve xsi uo SL anN s A fo Nad bie this morning when he left car} .. ping Hluffs. ‘The Laran 1o|, Bag Cate oe Ay Od i ra ¢ pump station outside worl wood as fuel. * ‘ et Buch ‘rm of county falr is in progress there and l t P and crude of blackens the! operator at Midwest pump station! the a a, Lester M. Buckley of the firm of} | we and 1 Facifg freigh! 1%