Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 1, 1923, Page 1

A Newspaper for All the Family, Clean, Unbiased, And a Booster for City, County and State: Sn ee Weather Forecast =| Che Casper Datly Crime Lo, much change in temperature. VOLUME VII CASPER, WYO., MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1923. f "NUMBER 303. wowowin & ADDITIONAL BODIES MAY NEVER BE RECOVERED FROM WRECKAGE CASUALTY LIST | FIRST WRECK PICTURES PRINTED IN WYOMING rs | | . ¢ Work of Clearing Up Debris Further Hampered by Difficulty in KNOWN DEAD: 0. E, Ganks, Denver ISU D. B. Schultz, baggageman and| H. Watkins, negro porter, Casper Raising Coaches pxpressman, Casper. W. Goff, conductor, Casper. Nicholas Schmetz. Do ry J. Spangler, engineer, Casper. ies eared 1 Mapes Bae E. Hendricks, maflman, v E, J, Klove, brakeman, Casper, | lle Mallon, fireman. Widely varying opinions were expressed today by rail- road men as to whether additional bodies of victims of the wreck of the Burlington passenger train last Thursday W. J. Nource, Gunnison, Colo. Gey. Gea Sens Caaee Albert Hill, colored, Dodge City,| Mr. Minnie Owens, Casper. W. Martin, Casper. ht will be fi in t 2 lis 3) i hi Kan. Ril Glaitinrt: enves) night will be found in he de molis hed smoking car which AMONG THE MISSING: WY ABERWWHEGR: Weibeeria lobia On ¥ is buried in the sands of Cole Creek, 14 miles east of Cas- Pe A. Guenther, Douglas, | ganizer for Painters Union, Denver. y ) . “se Re oe ana er is atill pinned beneath the chair car Wyo. W. R. Douglas, Di . * is recking crews. have |———— BN! M. D, Montgomery, Denver William Hines, homesteader, Ogal- ; Citi pany ce Hote wotlk! uncesaingly® for ainbst four'| G. R. Neil, Denver. lala, Wyo. pgm 8S : FF Petes 90, Seat a7 TRIBUNE MAKES PICTURE BEAT Spark Plug and Stanley Benedict In| Record Trip to Denver Scoop e: World on Wreck Photos | By SPARK PLUG. Its powerful motor roaring, the speeding Chandler bringing in from Denver to the Casper Daily Tribune the first pictures of the Cole creek wreck of the Burlington, plunged ahead at more than 50 miles an hour through the deep treacherous mud of the Yellowstone highway, swerved into Casper and pulled up in front of the Tribune bullding at 4 o'clock this morning. |thick, slippery mud and soaking “Spark Plug” and Stanley Bene-|Pi* and the totally black night had sought to make impossible the | ict, whose Chandler battled and| journey, The driving time between | Won against the combined counter-|Casper and Denver was just 12 ing of the terrible weather, got out | hours and 50 minutes. of the car, weary-eyed, bespattered| The Tribune pictures were rushed with mud and smiling triumphant: | f° 2 engraving company anda dup- Jy, ‘They bad been 40-hours with.| cate set given a Denver paper. Casper this morning nm a wor train, set forth conflic = view | One held that the bodies of victim (If ALL TIME stream as the smoker was rippe open in the wreck. ‘The other t Meved that many of the bodies would have jammed in the wreckage as the smoker was pinned beneath t other cars. Cole Creek late this afternoon and | (,@) £ B: a Sa a ate ae “he wrackee | General Manager of Bur and pile driver now warking from : S He Phiten iors Coreen cs || Lngton’ Makes state- been blocked since Thursday by a second washed out bridge farther cant. The wreck last Thursday Swaring the wreckage and construct-|tive and four cars of Chi- ing the new bri with the result }cago, Burlington and Quincy that traffic probably will be opened} nassenger train went with the one available derrick were | 0S" Cole Creek, t unsuccessful this forenoon. The Fy pie oe thes Reais 3 chair car is directly in the path ry of the Burling oe aeaicrt a caught in the smoker would hav A second wrecking crew and pile es noon at the scene of the wreck The arrival of the additional nicht in which the locome. sometime: tomorrow, 1° was stats through a weakened bridge which the new bridge will follow and | (O04 08 ie I ee days in an effort to clear away the wreckage. Two men of wide experience in wrecking operations, returning to} been swept out of the car and dow driver will reach the east side of The approach to the east bank has ment of Damage. equipment will speed up the work of Bfforts to pull out the chair c ‘ srt r Cole ¢ onsthce its removal is essential to furthe: e1 clearing up the wreck.|@ Flynn, general manager of the Boe thasieat matt Pill be held ede oe nse west of the Missouri tomorrow it was stated today by | (ror Wile is at the scene of the Chris Hoffman of Douglas, coronor | ihc! With other high officials of of Converse county, who however | ‘7@ Taliroac ss Three hours later the engravings but sleep and scarcely more than a) jy ni shed, Bandwich, they had attempted what | thers had thought of but did not) @are. and they had scooped the} later in the evening Benedict drove in to Denver, his Chandler world. ready for the return trip. Utterly ex- announced no Gefinite plans ‘The wreck occurred just east of the Converse-Natrona county line but as the bodies recovered Saturday Flood damage to the Burlington system during the past year was es- timated at from $2,500,000 to $8,000, 000 by Mr. Flynn who said that fully two-thirds of the damage had been were taken out on the west side of bi the stream they were brought to the |" pyyen lines. Natrona county morgue here. The . he estimate covers washouts in next body removed will bo taken to|‘htee sections of Wyoming this Douglas, Mr. Hoffman sald, and ar yeu as well as the washouts last rangements will be made for the in-|JUtY near Bonneville, 80 miles west quest. Continued on Page Seven. ie Hand baggage belonging to R. I Glerhart and M. D. Montgomery, dames cate ral AvepOoreers: WOTK..: 4 Friday night at 10 o'clock the pic-| Mausted from lack of sleep and insuf- -! ricient nourishment -he and “Spark tures were picked up from Bell's 5, left Denver Bunda jo’ and. the ordeal of reaching|*,Us" ‘eft Denver Sunday ‘morning at 6 o'clock. enver at a set time the following; | ° OCIS x morning was begun. he home trip. was by far worse he rise of runing to Denver|thtn the run into Colorado. By that The risk time three-days rain had made roads {without front wheel chains was tak-|\cihing but muck. Three times it but at Parkerton the Chandler |UOthing but mu pubs phonies,’ en 2 }was necessary to make momentary plunged into a deep mud hole, bring: > stops in order to repair tires, who } ing “Spark Plug” and Benedict) oer acenceeeee man car and have not been acount- 4 close to death. Tearing on into| The Tribune has its pictures to- < e . 4 ed for was fc 0 car today by Douglas through (ot over) the most| “ay. It is proud it beat the whole} Tribune as Usual Scores Beat With First tures of the Disaster at Cole Creek. kena ay lar pepper noire er ig In Press Stand a s of the entire 320 mile|f svizerning, in giving te its sib: Upper Picture—General View of the Disaster When Flood was at its Highest. | cavating. : In Wrecked G ht drive, the messengers .|scribers and reaters the views A 5 A * A 5 | z piste any * te Say enmeen . <PEOh sia ton thin’ vames CAnaT Cae Middle Picture—Closeup of Wreckage—Chair Car Upended Across Mail Car—Engine and Smoker Buried Under} itnough the bodies of Montgom ag the front wheels. |completely tired out both “Spark Water. z . ery and Glerhart were not found a At 4:20 In the morning Wheatiana|!Us” and Stanley Benedict are hap- | Bottom Picture—Same View Taken at Different Angle. (All Pictures Copyrighted by Bell Studio) (Continued on Page Eight) Look at the second window !n the was reached. And Just before day-|2Y ‘hat they took the long chances upper end of the tilted chair car. : icc (eather Pate: Right inside there, braced in one Hght had really broken the careen- ing car thundered into Cheyenne. = of the few seats remaining unde The inst five miles into the capital : molished, a water soaked cushion city had been fearful with one of } resting on their knees, two Tribune the bearings in the speeder burned reporters pounded out on portable but. It was. necessary to abandon typewriters much of the copy that the Chandler there and procure an-| has been sent direct to the Casper other » . rs Dally Tribune from the scene of The last run of the long trip tol G | the train wreck in Cole creek. | eed “ | | ° ; F, Cold winds and rain whipped Denver from Cheyenne was begun at aa Supreme Court i Ratrpace Ming Mimanae corit cece enc | 4 |Sheridan Inundated for Second Time in across the slowly receding flood and falling under 50 to 60 miles an hour| LIVERPOOL, Oct. 1—The White ‘ hese two men do Wis Reptiup thy thie river Ghark| Gtac Ider Cettic amd the Cunarder | Work Is sicmaneal Three Days — Big Horn Valley Loss admit their teeth chattered in per Flood with a big Buick fae b thia, which collided during a fect harmony with the clicking keys WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The su sy : z —— of thelr machines, Besides being rie e fox erday off s e- wba er apron eda tered Se aka ervey ; Thousands of Dollars merely cold they were chilled in reme court of the United States, ax = clothes wet from wading knee-deep meeting today for its new term after { and deeper through the strong cur- Plug” had hired. in the Mers todi d ber in- \. . Thesfinal hour that the two must} 1nd, ar Wbe in the Colorado metropolis was| the Cedric having continu ~ set at 30 minutes before noon, All| Ward bound voyage from New York j ry cera A ent from one car to anothe: the evil disports of the elements had| and Scythia, outbound for pik recess since last June, found a |. SEER AN: W YOns Oct. 1.—Hundreds of people, driven crapeaclvansigt ela taming Joined to prevent them from getting| Putting back. heavy docket. All of the justices re- from their homes last evening when the waters of Little * a | t ut eve "hei aters 2 3 i = , »y telegraph to all county een at all time: 1 Tri at their destination on time, But| ‘The Cunarder has a rent in her|turned to their seats. Goose creek left its banks and inundated the entire north- Deputies | With Drawn) Guns leeacagres Aerating ssa ale aoe wine ey Rela wrmckes No other at just 10 minutes of 12 o'clock the| starboard side forward 8 feet wide| Only motions, including those for |ern and eastern sections of Sherida ; xiously On Hand to Protect lfor tomorrow. met | newspaper in this country has ever Buick was hurled into Denver. As| and twelve to 15 feet deep, above the|admission to practice before the . ~ eferican were anxiously ? ‘i 5 Special Ballots ‘The governor filed an executive | « ed a story so thoroughly and per Tribune ck at Cole it tore through the outlying districts| water linc. The Cedric was not|court were in order today, the court ;}#Waiting the receding of the flood today to begin count- ite bearings succumbed to the unre-| so badly damaged. jafter receiving them haying decided |!N& their losses for the second time in three days. lenting speed and burned out. There were several narrow es-|to adjourn in order to call in a body} Property damage will greatly ex- ors flew thick and fast. A report |, TULSA. Okla., Oct 1.—Distribu- | or moving John P. Logan, chairman of | h (Continued on Page Eight) er with the secretary of state re-| accurately as the C: s the Burlington w poke Only 20 minutes late. Only 20| capes among the passengers many of|t the White House to pay its re-|cecd the damage incurred in the cloudburst had occurred at| 0% ,% election supplies in Tulsa} minutes late after all the demons of| whom were on the deck spects to President Coolidge. iirltT flood Toe fant Brigade TiC we \ above Big G and was| county began this afternoon under | EEE =. Vopee, F vi 4 ‘do 0 2 D re |stated early today. A much larger| sending a wall of water 20 fest high| "a1" a Rey een tanto iy | section was inundated and tho water/ down Big Goose caused hundreds tol Sherite f. D. Sanford, after toelvs reached @ greater depth in the ma-|flee to the hills. Other erroneous | warmed citizen volunteers” placed on jor portion of the flood district. reports added to the distress of the . Sp oula guar at clection headquarters by | _ Tittle Goose is receding but it will) PoP 4 ron, | order of Gov. J. C. Walton had been |be the greater part of the day be.| A troop of cavalry from the Wyo-|orasred out of county court bulld fore it has dropped sufficiently to|™!ng national guard aided by wagon ing. enable refugees to return to their| t®4ms, rescued hundreds of people >; ot so homes. Water from two to. five|from the north end of tawn Precinct: officers were escorted to Att Fil S t t S : Di oe W Id | . Pils The wi n eheoaal ies the storage vault, given their sup-| ormeys file Statement Sayin ivision ou feet 1s standing {n many homes, ; r came above the level of! ries and, guarded by deputies as Little Goose went on its second| ‘he, Wagon Poxes and progress wa8! they jett the building for the voting | k F P. M f. rampage early last evening, An| ‘ttioult. It is believed, however, | ey Make Farmers Pay More for immense wall of water came down|‘*8t no lives were lost. No attempt ‘The storage vault, situated at the ai aetlebetatciray Their Implements. 7 main rotunda of nee —s are that it will! the building to the basement quar rs, opens squarely upon tho center|_ ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 1.—Asserting that further divis- of the staircase, ion of the International Harvester company would result rlin making farmers rf more for their implements, attor- was made to ue household goods, | 5 F r away from the sand filled coaches |from the mountains, where unpre- Pei eeat ne tate our or Five Bodies Thought to Be "AL | ana on into the Platte river. cedented rains and cloudbursts have| The light plant ix out of commis-|isading from * | Much sand has been removed] occurred, and within three hours af-|*lon and indications be some time or That Remain in Cars Submerged in from the exposed side of the Bull te the) seaidents \ot! the north, end pele ae reuiah and power | man and prodding into the re: ing depths of mud indicates that|from thelr homes, virtually that en-| ‘The water from Little Goose broke Sand on Bottom of Creek unless the bodies are concealed in|tire section of town was under|over its banks at the southeast end &@ group of twenty deputi the front vestibule they will not be| Water, ‘The flood did not reach its|of town and came down in raging|piatols drawn, stood shoulder to found nearby. crest until long after midnight, The! torrents upon the fine residence dis-| shoulder with eyes riveted upon the | 4 The same ia true of the chair| Big Goose ereek, which had over-|trict along Ilinols, Sumner and|movements in the vault cent petition 2 By ARNOLD B. LARSON. car, from which bas, beets thrown | owed with ttle Goose creek in the| Gladstone streets and Coffeen ave'| “Whe tessteent ot the county build:| ‘The lemapace oaimee that altos | Three bodies in three days—and death leers at the hun-| most of the tangled debris and grass | flood Friday, did not reach a danger-| ‘This entire section was flooded by] ing was completely in the hands of|tho dissolution decreed by the dreds who are neither eating or sleeping in their desper- | without the disclosure thus far of a| Us stage, however, and while it from two to four feet of water. The] the deputies as the supplies were|time agreement with th loned at the head of the neys for the corporation today filed in the United States trict court here an answer to the attorney general’s re- sking such a division, red” in y unfa- ate effort to locate the victims of the Burlington train No. | *Insle body. The wicking taln tts Peake ee few places: it bes ‘ater then swept down Broadway|being distributed. With all ap-|ment in 1918, the competitive condi: | ir uiture ha rig is - : 4 Tad Yee’ @Siton ncrané ting this | ced by 9 o'clock at night, and Gould streets. The section near] proaches guarded by groups of from |tions contemplated t event the com- lemolished in Cole creek last Thursday night. coach from its embedded position, | fact that Big Goose began r 1 @ Burlington depot and Sheridan] 10 to 20 deputies, only election offt-|nct had been made f ment has char of the Little Watchers keep the vigil of the last chance, intently | the tres and upper end was pulled | before the . > “ A Inn was heavily damaged while nls and the sheriff's forces were |the business WAS asse nent has charg: peering into the rily, mud-thick current of the Platte river | high in the air late yesterday after-| flood had reached Sheridan undoubt-|of the north end of tone bel Lit caietaa if see ibe lisseee Pritt w . en eenrtt s made t . r re Tor floating bodies swept away from] tion of every car has been made.| noon and blocks placed under it. A|edly saved the main business dis-/t!e Goose and the Junction of Little| of the building. cause the war ha¢ ed al of the mont important ma- the wreckage. The of excavation has now] hold was taken through the win-|tfict and the western residence s g Goose was a sen of wa Playing his trump card, Governor |portion of com 1 t c trade the an- ui now believed that not ached place wher rehers| dows in the lower end of the car|tlon from th pod. The section from north Main C. Walton t reconstituted the trade . 1 nid. than three or four corpses v | feel ther that] but each powerful attempt of the Panio prevailed throughout Sher from Becc reet north election . 1 and orders de ’ > quoted figures found when a thorough examina-| most of the re carried (Continued on Page Enght) {dan last night as disquieting rum-| (Continued cn Page Seven.) by t rd, went out t on a large scale t Page Bight)