Reno,
Nevada Train Derailment
May 21, 1902
SOUTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN DERAILED AT RENO
Reno, Nev, May 21.-The east-bound flyer
on the Southern Pacific jumped the frog at
Chestnut street crossing in this city. The
engine and the baggage and mail cars were
derailed. The engine ploughed into the ground,
the drivers being covered, and is badly wrecked.
Fireman Walker
jumped as the engine careened over, badly
spraining his ankle and wrist.
Mrs. J. G. Putnum,
a passenger, was injured about the head and
back.
Idaho Daily Statesman, Boise City, ID 22
May 1902
THE FLYER WRECKED
A Smash Up Last Evening at the Chestnut Street
Crossing.
Last evening, at 7:15 as the east bound flyer
was pulling into this station from the west,
engine No. 2243, pulling the train, jumped the
track at the Chestnut street crossing, plowed
into the dirt on the north side of the track
clear up to her boiler. The ties were cut off
slick and clean and the ground torn up in great
shape by the monster. Then tender followed and
jammed itself into the cab, followed by the
baggage, express, mail and composite cars. Then
engine was in charge of
C. C. Brown
with Andy Walker
fireman. When the engine began to crean over
Fireman Walker jumped, striking on a rail and
badly spraining his ankle, and right wrist.
The engineer also left the cab when she began to
tip, but escaped without injury. The passengers
were badly shaken up by the sudden stopping of
the train, but none were injured unless it be a
Mrs. J. G. Painter,
whose head hid the side of a birth in the third
Pullman. Her eye was blackened and her back
somewhat injured.
The engines and tender were badly wrecked,
but the derailed cars were not injured at all. A
wrecking car and crew soon arrived from
Wadsworth, a track laid around the derailed
engine and at midnight the train was released
and allowed to continue its journey toward the
rising sun.
Just what caused the accident is not known
but it is supposed to have been a low frog in
the switch.
Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 22 May 1902
Articles Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
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