ENGINE PLUNGES INTO A FIRE
THREE MEN BURNED TO ASHES. BOY'S SAD FATE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, 12th July. During a fire which destroyed a logging camp at Comly Mill, Tacoma, seventeen men aboara a locomotive attempted to save a number of loaded lumber cars. The locomotive left an undermined track, and plunged headlong into the fire. The men were thrown into the live flames. Fourteen escaped, badly burned. Three were burned to ashes. A boy caught his foot under the overturned engine, and was slowly roasted to death, his companions being too injured to assist him.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7
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