admin | August 29, 2010
Disaster struck on the Great Northern Railway line on the southern edge of what would become Glacier National Park. The air brakes leaked on an eastbound freight train near Essex, and 28 cars detached from the engine. They rolled backward through the night — 17 miles down a steep grade, reaching an estimated 75-100 mph, [...]
Category: 1900, Disasters in Montana, Glacier National Park, Railroads |
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Tags: 1901, Belton, Essex, Glacier National Park, Great Northern, Jennings, Libby, Nyack, trainwreck
admin | August 26, 2010
At 2:22 p.m. on Aug. 26, 1862, C.W. Spillman, horse thief, became the first man executed in what’s now Montana. Spillman was strung up from a tree near Gold Creek, which appeared on maps as Hangtown for years after. James Stuart, one of the town’s founders, described Spillman as “a rather quiet reserved pleasant young [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Gold mining, history milestones, Mining, Old West, Uncategorized, Western Montana history |
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Tags: B.J. Jermagin, C.W. Spillman, Elk City, Gold Creek, Hangtown, Idaho, James Stuart, Montana hangings, Nathaniel Langford, William Arnett, Worden and Co.
