ON A BURNING BRIDGE.

NORTH COAST LIMITED WRECKED AND TWO LIVES LOST.

Glendive, Mont., Aug 11. -- Northern Pacific train, No. 2, the North Coast limited, met with a disastrous wreck twelve miles west of Glendive last night. Fireman A. B. MATTHEWS and an unknown tramp were killed and thirty persons injured. Few of those injured were seriously hurt and all but one, WILSON, an express messenger, will recover.
The train was traveling probably at a speed of 50 miles an hour, when within two miles of Allard Station it rounded a curve and ran into a burned bridge, 150 feet long. Engineer LITCH could not see that the structure was out until the train was virtually over the chasm. When he did see it he quickly reversed the engine and threw on the emergency brakes, which action prevented all the coaches except the smoker and mail car from getting into the ditch.
A relief train bearing physicians left this city at once for the scene of the accident and a wrecking train was made up and is now at work clearing the track.
The dead, together with all the injured, were brought to Glendive and are now being cared for.

The Syracuse Herald New York 1908-08-11
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Researched and Transcribed by Stu Beitler. Thank you, Stu!