Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1909 — TRAIN PUT INTO RAY BY FIENDS [ARTICLE]

TRAIN PUT INTO RAY BY FIENDS

Fireman Loses Life and Engineer Is Injured. SWITCH OPEN; LIGHT OUT Great Northern Number Two Seventy Two Plunges Into Water at Bellingham, Wash.—Mall Car and Baggage Coach Smashed Smoker Derailed. Seventy-Five Passengers Given a Shaking Up But None Suffer Injury. Mail Clerk Has Shoulder Dislocated.

Bellingham, Wash., Jan. B.—Wrecked by 'flends who threw the switch open, locked it and put out the lantern so the engineer could not see the peril, Great. Northern train No. 272 northbound left the track just south of Bellingham yards at Commercial Point and plungqd into the water. The engine was submerged, the mail car and baggage coach were smashed and the smoker derailed. Fireman Ed. Stuart of Seattle, was killed. Engineer Jack Bailey had both legs crushed, making amputation necessary. Mail Clerk George L. Rhodes of Seattle had his right shoulder dislocated. The engineer went under, but come to the surface, struck out for a piling and clung there until rescued. The passengers, of whom there were seventy-five, were shaken up but none was Injured.