Re: February, 1948 Snowslide

Herbert Danneman reproduced a company telgram regarding the mishap on page 193 in ``A Ticket to Ride the Narrow Gauge'' Conductor Ed Morgan reported that his brakeman (George Ottoway) and the passengers were badly bruised but he did not consider their injuries to be serious.
The World first knew of the snowslide after fireman Cecil T. (Tony) Seismore walked four miles to a railroad phone booth at mile post 315. Later Morgan walked to the phone booth with an update.
There were two locomotives on the train. Dan Holly was the regular passenger engineer that day, running the 482 with Siesmore as his fireman. Siesmore probably caught the run off the extra board as he was low in seniority. Freight engineer Jim Stephens and fireman L. N. Morgan crewed the 473.