Past Pages April 28

130 YEARS AGO

(Continued from Sunday) Train Plunges into Carson River: The freight train was rounding a curve when it suddenly came upon two boulders, which had been washed on the track following a storm. The train consisted of two flat cars, nine ore dumps drawn by engines Merrimac and Washoe. When the forward engine struck the boulder, the trucks left the track to the right while the Washoe lurched to the left, snapped a coupling and piled cars alongside the Merrimac. Rocks and flatcars followed the Washoe sixty feet to the river below. (Continued Thursday)

100 YEARS AGO

Sam Davis, former editor of the Nevada Appeal and now Chairman of the State Publicity Commission, has returned from the east in an effort to secure funds for the distillation of sagebrush. As a result, a large company is being formed and settlers from Iowa are to take up lands to turn sagebrush under cultivation. Under the plan endorsed by Thomas Edison, water would be pumped from the Snake River and sagebrush turned into oil and wax. A half million people could be brought into the state in the next few years.

70 YEARS AGO

Motorists coming down the Clear Creek road get a fine view of the new "S" that was constructed on the mountainside northeast of Stewart. The Carson Indian School accordingly has its own "sign" the same as the state university and many of Nevada's high schools.

20 YEARS AGO

Gov. Bob Miller earned $321,776 in taxable income in 1989 and paid $82,317 in taxes his tax return shows.

10 YEARS AGO

Carson City, Douglas, Storey and Lyon counties experienced a slight increase between 1998 and 1999 in reported child abuse cases.

• Trent Dolan is the son of Bill Dolan, who wrote this column for the Nevada Appeal from 1947 until his death in 2006.