Cottage Grove leader., August 28, 1908, Image 1

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('.rove; fifte e n sa w m ills : th r e e s h in g le m ills ,
w ith in a r a d iu s o f 15 m ile s. H e a d q u a r te r s
fo r H oliem ia g o ld m in e s a n d B lack B u tte
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V O L. XX.
N O . 20
COTTAGE GROVE j
LOCAL WRECKED
NEW SAWMILL
PLANE ARRIVES
Engineer and Fireman
Met Horrible Death
To Replace Mill Recently
Destroyed by Fire.
TWO YOUNG MEN KILLED
FOR McKIBBEN BROTHERS
Wreck Caused by Locomotive Running
Over a Bullock— Engine Turn­
ed Complete Somersault
Larger Capacity than Old Mill - Will
Cut 25,000 per Day-Ready
for Orders in a Week
T he horrible wreck of the south
hound Cottage G rove local, four
miles north of Eugene last Sunday
evening dem onstrated the fact that
a good straight track in a level
o{>en country is no insurance
against such unforseeu disasters
even with a right-of-w ay fenced to
prevent ju st such disasters as this
one, which was caused by a Jersey
bullock in some way gaining ac­
cess to the right-of-w ay an d lying
down for the night between the
steel rails of the track.
Ktigineer Jack Nichols, of
Portland.
Firem an Frank Bolter, of
Portland.
George Bailey, Eugene
Kay Sw artz, Junction.
How the Accident Happened.
The Injured.
1 he new 60-horse power boiler
and engine for the McKibben
Brothers sawm ill arrived at this
place, together w ith their new cut
off saw, S aturday m orning and
was sent out to the mill site a few
Ou ’ Wrrc't Pictures.
miles east of town over the O. &
S. E. railroad the same day. It
No. 1.— Removing body of
will be remembered that the Mc­
Firem an Boulter from under
Kibben mill was destroyed by fire a
the engine boiler.
short time ago, but the bovs pluck
ily went to work at once rebuilding
No. 2.— Rear view o f
with the result th at by the time the
sm oker” and engine along
new
m achinery came to hand
aide.
everything was in readiness for its
No. ,1.— Locomotive re­
installation an d in a com paratively
duced to scrap iron; nose fac­
few days the saws were hum m ing
again. T his new power equip­
ing opposite direction from
ment will give the mill a capacity
w hich it was running.
of 25,(XX) per day and the boys e x ­
No, 4 '—Jo h n Nichols, the
pect to experience no difficulty in
dead engineer.
averaging 20,(HXt per day. Sev­
eral days will be occupied in saw ­
No. 5,— F rank Boulter, the
ing lum ber with w hich to replace
dead flremau.
the 200 feet of flume which w as
also destroyed at the same time
London Springs Items of Interest. the mill burned, but by the close
of another week the mill will be
Jam es Sutherland and F ran k j ready to tak e care of its orders.
T he Leader is inform ed by the
Cooper have just returned from an
M cKibben Bros, that the outlook
1 outing at Newport.
for the lum ber business is more
Black Butte m ines have closed encouraging just now than it h as
down tem porarily on account of lieen since last October, th a t
lack of wood for the furnace. prices are steadily advancing and
day of A ugust, 1908, before W.
J. E. Banton, London’s post­ more and larger orders for lumber
T. Gordon, coroner of said county, master and progressive m erchant, are being placed.
upon viewing the bodies of John made a business trip to Cottage
T he I,eader wishes to co ngratu­
Nichols, Kay Schw artz and George Grove Friday.
late the McKibben boys for the
Bailey, then an d there lying dead,
philosophical m anner in which
A s has been his custom for a they faced their recent great a d ­
uixm oath of six good and lawful
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of
years,
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men of the said county, who be­
versity, an d the speedy and busi­
ing duly summoned and sworn to ris in com pany with his family is ness like m anner in w hich they
enquire into all the circum stances spending a couple of weeks at the have overcome it.
attending the death of the John j Spriugs, visiting his m anv friends
Nichols, Ray Schwartz and Geo. and relatives.
Sawmill Changes Hands at Drain.
Bailey, do say upon their oath
Wm. I.ively had the m isfortune
aforesaid:
to lose his entire crop of hay by
T he P aul Dimmick interest in
“ T h at the -names and ages of fire the first of the week. He had
said deceased persons are as fol­ stacked his hay with the intention the Mack sawm ill north of Drain,
lows; John
Nichols, aged 59 of erecting a barn over it in a including the mill, donkey engine,
years; Ray
Schw artz, aged 18 short time. T he cause of the fire about 200,000 feet of rough lum ­
ber, and about 1,000,000 feet of
years: George Bailey, aged 17 is unknow n.
timber, was sold this week to W.
years. T h at all of said deceased
J. H. Rouse has shut down his L. and Thos. Cobh, W. S. H am il­
persons were white m ale persons,
sawm ill till after the November ton and E. L. Giles of Koseburg,
residing in the state of Oregon.
“ T h at said above-mentioned per­ election, and is furnishing his for $2400. T he property had been
sons came to their death on A ugust neighbors free entertainm ent with in the hands of a receiver—C. W .
23 in Lane county, Oregon, as the his new Edison phonograph. He K irk— for several m onths. It is
has a complete set of records of probable th a t the mill will resume
result of the wreck of passenger
B ryan’s speeches.
operations soon.— N oupareil.
train No, 17, of the Southern P a ­
T . J. Geer has purchased a new
cific railroad com pany ou their
track about one and one h alf miles buggy and harness to use with the
Lost a Valuable Colt.
south of Irving, Lane county, O re­ trotter he bought from Messrs.
gon, at about 9:20 p. m. A ugust Powell and Tuller, a short time
John Coleman, who resides on a
ago. Mr. Geer says he can m ake
23, 1908.
T h at said wreck w as caused by the drive to Cottage Grove in 50 little farm one m ile west of town
lost a valuable two year old colt
said train striking a bull belonging m inutes with the new rig.
last T uesday. In com ing from the
to N ancy Bushnell: th a t said
pasture to the b arn in the evening
Will Pay 80 Cents Per Hundred
wreck was unavoidable, and that
it attem pted to jum p over a small
no blam e attaches to anybody.
T he Brady hop yard at Creswell pile of poles, one of w hich pierced
In witness whereof as well as
the said coroner, as the jurors will pay «0 cents per 100 pounds its l>ody cau sin g it to bleed to
for picking. Yours
death in a few m om ents. It was
aforesaid, have to this inquisition
K. O . B r a d y .
valued at $150.
set their hands atul seals on the
day of date hereof.
F. M. D k N kkfb ,
W. E. B r o w n ,
T he train, in charge of Con
ductor C harles Minkler, was bow l­
ing along on schedule time. At a
point two miles south of Irving
there was a sudden shock which
threw the passengers from their
seats. T hen followed a grinding
of iron wheels on the wooden lies,
accom panied hy a crash of glass
as the coaches plunged
and
careened. A s related by the Reg­
ister, lying beside the track,
m ute evidence of the cause of the
grim catastrophe, was a large b u l­
lock, his severed head and neck re
posing upon the opposite side of
the train. T he engine turned a
com plete som ersault and its iron
nose was pointing in the opposite
direction. U nderneath the boiler
was found poor F rank Bolter, the
fireman, his head and shoulders
protruding from the iron bulk.
One tramfi was taken piecemeal
from the m ass of wreckage, while
two others, their clothes in shreds
and both lying on their backs,
their features showing rigid and
pale in the flickering light of
lanterns, reposed where the mad
career of the buffeted cars had
throw n them, clear of the wreck.
T he scene beggared description.
H ere the wheel of a truck protrud­
ing through the bottom of a coach,
nearby the tw isted iron of the en­
gine, w arped running gears of
cars torn from their fastenings,
rails twisted from the track-bed,
the whole distorted m ass forming
an obstruction w hich required
m any hours to clear aw ay to re­
store traffic to its norm al condition.
T he mass of ju n k which was
formerly the engine, rested within
two coaches of the rear of the
train, with the sm oking car resting
upon it. T he engine tender was
carried forward with the rest of
the train past the engine which
was lying in the ditch and finally
fell to the east side of the track,
off the grade, formm g a bridge
across which the combined bag-
The Dead.
Verne Apperson of F.ugeue,
back wrenched and body and
face scratched an d bruised.
John W right, of Portland,
arm badly gashed.
John Francis W ilbright, of
Pittsburg, P a., left log bro­
ken.
B. C. Gilbert, of Eugene,
back injured.
Albert Kahn, of Portland,
left leg injured
gage and m ail car, stripped of its
trucks, shuttled over where it rest­
ed midway in an almost level po­
sition. H ad it not been for this
fortunate circum stance, the whole
train would have crashed down the
em bankm ent and the loss of life
would have been m uch greater.
The Engineer’ s Story
A brakem an was the first to
reach the engine. T here he found
E ngineer Nichols, face downward
near the throttle, a cab seat upon
his back. In an effort to free the
unfortunate m an from the w reck­
age, the rescuers seized him by the
arm s and the scalded flesh came
away in their hands. Mr. Nichols
was still conscious an d was able
to give his story of the wreck.
In substance, he said th at he
thoqght he discerned some obstruc­
tion on the track, hut before he
had tim e to act, the engine was
upon the cow brute. An exam i­
nation of the en g in e’s appliauces
revealed the fact that Nichols had
thrown the reverse lever back to
the last notch, and the air brake
was set b ald down
E ngineer Nichols was one of
the oldest locomotive m asters on
the Oregon division of the South­
ern Pacific, being about 55 years
old. H e was popular with rail­
road men, and besides those in
railroad circles, had a host of
friends in the towns through which
he had run for the past 25 years.
He is survived by his wife. His
home was in Portland.
Frank Bolter, the fireman, was
also well know n. H is age was
about 30, and he leaves a wife in
Portland. T he tram p who had his
left leg broken stated to the doctor
th at his home was in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. He is well built
an d showed good nerve. H e was
taken to the Eugene hospital,
where he is resting easier.
Thoughtful Act of Conductor
Conductor M inkler’s thoughtful
act undoubtedly prevented fire
from adding its horror to the
wreck. Immediately
after the
final crash came, Mr
M inkler
m ade a careful tour along the
coaches, and found flames issuing
from underneath the wreck, l Tn-
earth in g a bucket from the b ag ­
gage car he hastily emptied a
d rinking tank of its contents and
soon quenched the flames.
T he train crew was well and
favorably
know n, at Cottage
Stories of Cottage Grove People,
Grove, the term inus for th is train
an d the entire com m unity was
M anager C unningham of the
grieved to leant of the tragic death Cottage Grove Electric Eight Co.
of Engineer Nichols and Bolter.
and Chris W hite, m anager of the
Brown Lum ber Co. of th is city,
were both passengers on the ill-
fated Cottage Grove local, which
was wrecked below Eugene S u n ­
day evening. Both occupied the
THE PEER OF CHILDREN’S
“ sm oker” w hich was throw n over
on its side and badly wrecked.
Mr. W hite effected his escajie from
the w recked car hy way of a w in­
dow, while Mr. Cunningham after
h anging on to a seat for dear life,
INCLUDES TWO PAIR PANTS
w hile the car was bum ping and
sw aying to and fro, finally effected
ONE KNICKERBOCKER,
his escape through the broken
ONE PLAIN.
door and the under part of the
vestibule, both uninjured. After
H IS stylish Com bination suit, with two pairs of
alighting in the darkness. Mr.
knee pan ts, is guaranteed to stand the hardest
C unningham found himself wad
wear w ithout ripping or tearing.
ing in a warm, thick liquid sub­
T he P an ts are taped and sewed twice. T he Plain
stance an d at first wondered if it
P ants are made with D ouble Seat and Knees from
was gore, b ut upon lig h tin g a
seam to seam.
m atch he discovered th at it was
oil from the tan k s of the sm ashed
tinder. On coming upon an ob­
struction nearby Mr Cunningham ,
again lighted a m atch, this tim e to
peer down into the distorted face
of a tram p whose body was hor
riblv m angled. This was enough
Riveted buttons that ca n ’t pull off. All edges are double stitched;
for Mr. C unningham , so after
cloth scientifically shrunk—and sanitarily cam phorated to protect It
viewing the remains of the dead
from m oths and germs.
fireman under the engine, he hit
W earbetter C om bination suits give the best value for the least
the ties for Eugene and aside from
money—$5.00 for the suit with extra pants.
being slightly bruised and be­
grim ed with oil was little the
worse for his thrilling experience.
ALL PATTERNS—ALL STYLES— ALL SIZES.
Both men returned to Cottage
FOR SALE BY
G rove on the belated M onday
m orning train.
COMBINATION SUITS.
T
W HEELER, THOMPSON COMPANY
W m . 1’ r e s t o n ,
J. M. H o w e ,
L. I). F o r r e s t ,
G e o . H. I r i s h .
Fine New Threshing Machine
L. C. Scott’s new separator ar
rived from Portland S aturday and
was set up ready for business Mon­
day, being taken to the F'elix Cur-
rin farm east of town, w here Mr.
S cott’s m achine was burned last
week before he had completed his
threshing contract on th a t place.
The new m achine is the latest
improved type of Russell self-feed­
ing 27-12 separator with m easur­
ing, weighing and straw stacking
attachm ents. T his new separator,
with the new traction engine,
which Mr. Scott purchased since
last season, comprises one the best,
most complete and up to-date
threshing outfits in the Upper W il­
lam ette vaUey.
Killed Another Cougar.
T he Addisons. who killed a
Verdict of the Jury.
large cougar at Ixirene T uesday of
T he ju ry , after hearing all the last week w hich was reported in
evidence, brought in the following the Leader, killed another large
verdict;
cougar in the sam e vicinity Friday
“ Inquisition taken a t Eugene, probably the m ate of the first one
Lane county, Oregon, on the 24tb killed.
GREAT REDUCTION
SUMMER SHOES
25 per cent off.
All lines of Ladies and Gents Oxfords
Also fine stock of Children’s Shoes
going at the same reduction.
Best $ 4 .0 0 Shoes now $3.00.
Best $ 3 .0 0 Shoes now $2.25.
Best $ 2 .0 0 Shoes now $1.50.
PEARCE BROTHERS. ^
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