Passenger Train Derails South of Yakima

The numerous wrecks on the Northern Pacific during the past few weeks were followed up early Wednesday morning by a serious accident to the east-bound passenger train carrying the Olympia excursionists to Spokane. The train was four hours late in reaching North Yakima, and Engineer Schulte, who had just returned to duty, pulled out of here at a good rate of speed. When four miles south, just below Dan Fish’s place, the axle of the tender broke, and before the passengers could hardly realize what the trouble was, the baggage and express cars and two emigrant coaches were in the ditch. The ties were shattered into kindling wood and 600 feet of track torn up and twisted in all kinds of shapes. Happily the injuries to the passengers were not of a serious nature, the most serious being experienced by Express Messenger Noble, who had his left arm broken and pinioned under the safe. A fire broke out in the express car at this time, but a bucket of water was sufficient to extinguish the flames. Ready hands soon extricated Noble from his painful position and, with the balance of the passengers, he was brought to this city in the cars yet remaining on the track, where the fracture was reduced by Dr. Heg.