City's New Fire Engine Destroyed in Rail Wreck
A critical piece of infrastructure, a Clapp & Jones fire engine, was ruined in a freight train accident, leaving the city to seek a replacement.
Some time ago, the city ordered a Clapp & Jones fire engine, which has been daily expected. Tuesday, there was a freight train wrecked on the Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific, and a telegram received from the claim agent of that road announces that our engine was on the train and was so badly damaged that he advises the city to duplicate the order. The loss will fall on the Northern Pacific.
“The engine was on the train and was so badly damaged that he advises the city to duplicate the order.”
Infrastructure delays are as old as the city itself; while we no longer worry about steam fire engines being crushed on rail lines, the frustration of stalled civic improvements remains a familiar theme for Yakima's growing population.
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