Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — TRAMPS AND CATTLE. [ARTICLE]

TRAMPS AND CATTLE.

Four of the Former and 360 of the Latter Slaughtered in a Freight Wreck. A.serious wreck occurred on the Santa Fe road several miles West Of Trinidad, Col., Sunday night. A freight train with twenty cars, loaded with cattle, started down the Raton mountain but became unmanageable because the air-brakes failed to work. The train gained a frightful speed, and, while turning a sharp curvc, the engine and tender broke away from the train and sixteen cars went over an embankment twenty feet high, smashing cars into kindling wood, and killing 360 cattle. Brakeman J. M. Kurnes was slightly hurt and four tramps, stealing their way over the road are reported buried in the wreck. The four last cars of the train are the only ones that remained on the track. The road is torn up for several hundred feet and the loss to the company is estimated at $25,000. The wind often turns an umbrella, but a borrower randy returns it.— Zeaxw Siftmgi. ■ ■