Spokane Falls, W. T., April 24. It has just been learned that on Thursday afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, a terrible accident occurred on the Cascade division of the Northern Pacific Railroad, four miles beyond Chelum. A west bound train, pushing a flat car loaded with laborers, was going around a curve leading to a trestle, at a good rate of speed, when it ran into an engine which was running east, backing up. The fiat car passed half way through the tender of the light engine and the other end crushed up against the pilot of the west bound train, on which were two men. The unfortunate men were crushed to a pulp. The light engine was knocked eighty feet. Five men were killed outright and one has since died. The injured number eighteen. All of the physicians of Ellensburg were immediately sent to the scene by a special train, and have been rendering all the service possible. The accident was the fault of one of the train's crew neglecting to flag as ordered. The dead and injured were brought to Chelum Thursday. District Attorney Sawely has gone to the scene of the accident to make a thorough examination.