<p>PH Coll 1377.2</p>
<p>On August 12, 1912, a wreck involving the train the Olympian occurred in Keechelus, Washington which killed five people: four crewmen--engineers H. Townsend and Henry Nobel; two firemen, Thimbel and H. Spencer; and a woman passenger, Mrs. Simon Jurich. The train, drawn by two locomotives, was approaching the summit of the Cascade Mountains when the forward engine was derailed on a bridge over a small stream. The pounding of the wheels over the ties broke down the bridge and both engines, the mail car and the baggage car fell into the creek.</p>
A.J.M. Holzman
circa 12 August 1912 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1912-08-12T00:00:00Z/11,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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