Some time ago I posted this on the list, but for those who missed it, here it
is again:
Here is a runaway story as published in the August 3, 1906 Longmont (Colorado)
Ledger, about a runaway on the C&S:
"Two cars loaded with coal got away at the Mitchell coal mine, about two miles
up the hill from Marshall, eight miles from Boulder. There is a steep descent
from the mine to Marshall and by the time the cars got to that place, it is
said they were going at the rate of about 40 miles per hour. A mile this side
of Marshall is Shanahan Hill.
"Roy Johnson, aged 16 years, was driving along the road and just as he was
crossing the track, was struck by the runaway cars. The horse was instantly
killed and the wagon was demolished. The boy was hurled quite a distance from
the scene of the accident and was unable to get up. Shortly after the freight
cars passed, a freight engine followed. This was stopped, the boy put on it
and brought to the Unversity Hospital.
"The runaway cars kept on gaining momentum and came down University hill into
Boulder at a terrific rate. A trolley car laden with women was just returning
from the Chatauqua grounds and was barely missed. Some of the passengers on
the car were badly frightened. It was a marvel that the cars did not jump the
track rounding the curve into Boulder. There is no was of derailing cars in
this city on the main line and all that could be done was to send warnings
ahead.
"Several people barely missed being caught as they were crossing the streets.
The young son of H. Russell Thompson, of the Herald office, was about to cross
the track on a bicycle at Fifettenth Street, when he was warned back just as
the cars went whizzing by. There is a continual downgarde from Boulder to the
Y and then somewhat of a climb, but the cars went on. Word was sent ahead to
Niwot and to Longmont. Before anyone at Niwot, seven miles distant, could get
to a switch, the cars had passed that place.
"The switch here was finally thrown in time to sidetrack the runaways which
crossed Main Street at a terrific gate and they were run on the siding south of
the depot. One of Richart's transfer teams was on the siding loading freight,
and the driver barely had time to get off the track when the cars went past.
They ran beyond the switch a distance of about 100 yards where they stopped
without doing a particle of damage.
"The cars arrived here at 5:20 just six minutes before the evening train from
the north was due, and a few minutes later that train would have met the cars
between Niwot and Longmont. The cars traveled a distance of 24 miles before
being stopped."
Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, Oregon
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