Deeth,
Nevada Train Wreck
January 22, 1907
ONE KILLED IN A WRECK NEAR DEETH
Number 5 Goes in Ditch and Cars Are Hurled Over
High Embankment.
BROKEN BRAKEBEAM CAUSED ACCIDENT
Injured Passengers Taken to Wells and Cared for
– A Fortunate Wreck.
ELKO, January 23. - Southern Pacific
train No. 5, westbound, was derailed at 10:30
last night one mile east of Deeth, Nev.
Resulting in the death of one, and injury of
twenty-five passengers. None of the crew was
injured.
The dead:
S. HOSKINS,
residence unknown, fractured skull.
Severely injured:
G.J. Roberts
of Pennsylvania, severe cut on head.
Bodilla Kahn,
Butte, Mont., head and face cut and bruised.
Tom Reynolds,
Salt Lake, fractured leg.
C.E. Sherman
of Montana, head cut.
A number of others sustained minor cuts and
bruises, but all, with the exception of
 one,
were able to resume the journey. The body of
HOSKINS was
taken to Elko, where an inquest will be held.
No. 5 left Wells at 10 o’clock, running about
four hours late. Just before reaching Deeth,
while running forty miles an hour, the baggage,
smoker, chair car, diner, tourist and three
Pullmans left the rails plunged over a fifteen
foot embankment and rolled over. Only the engine
and an empty express care were left intact. The
chair car was forced from its tracks and clear
of the right of way fully 100 feet from the
track. The smoking car suffered most and it was
here that HOSKINS
was killed.
As soon as possible word was sent to Deeth,
and within thirty minutes four physicians with
assistants were sent from Elko. Everything was
done to make the passengers as comfortable as
possible, but owning to the intense cold,
several suffered severely.
Little information of the wreck had been
received at the offices at Sparks today.
According to one message, the wreck was caused
by a brakebeam breaking and falling beneath the
car whele [sic]. Another version is that a
broken rail caused the accident.
As soon as possible the passengers were
transferred to another train and taken to
Carlin, where they were fed and warmed. Six cars
of the train of twelve are in fairly good
condition and will make up part of the train on
to San Francisco.
Traffic was tied up about twelve hours. A new
train has been made up to carry the passengers
on through to the coast, and should arrive in
Reno about 7 o’clock this evening.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 23 Jan 1907
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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