Palisade, NV Train Wreck, Feb 1911 - 22 Injured

TWENTY-TWO INJURED IN WRECK

Broken Rail Sends Six Cars of Southern Pacific Passenger Train Plunging Down Embankment and Sparks and Palisade Hospitals are Filled With Injured.

SCORES GAZE ON DEATH

Over and Over Cars Are Turned Down Embankment and Only Stop On Brink of Humboldt River Where Angry Waters Hide Awful Death

(Associated Press by Leased Wire.)

Reno, Nev., Feb. 21.-Twenty-two men and women are lying in a hospital at Elko, Nev., today, being treated for injuries received last night when six cars of a Southern Pacific passenger train, eastbound, No. 10, left the rails about one mile west of Palisade. Three of the passengers-two women and a man-are acknowledged by the railroad company officials at Sparks to be seriously injured, although their injuries are not expected to prove fatal. The other passengers sustained injuries of a minor nature. Railroad officials here have as yet been unable to obtain the names of the injured passengers. But one member of the train's crew was injured, CONDUCTOR J. A. KNOWLES, of Sparks, who sustained a badly bruised shoulder.

The wreck was due to a broken rail caused by a flaw in the manufacture.

The crash came just as the passengers in the sleepers were preparing to retire. Two coaches, a smoker and a chair car, were hurled down the embankment, turned and twisted several times over and nearly sent into the Humboldt river. The fact that the scene of the wreck is considered one of the most dangerous pieces of track on the entire Salt Lake system prevented a more disastrous wreck, as all trains are driven at a slow rate of speed through the Palisade canyon.

A relief train was sent out from Carlin carrying physicians and nurses. The injured were taken to Elko as rapidly as possible and will be held there until they are able to travel. The road will be open for traffic about 11 o'clock.

The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, WA 21 Feb 1911