Jinx

For 20 years the Olympian, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, made the run from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer Creek, the Olympian was supposed to have waited until an eastbound special, carrying 120 CCC boys, could reach a siding to let the limited go through. But without automatic block signals to remind forgetful engineers of orders in their jumper pockets, the Olympian raced past Ingobar. A mile beyond, it cracked head-on into the CCC train, killed one boy, injured 17 others on the two trains.

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