The State - News from Feb. 17, 1989

Almost 60 animals in California’s surviving herds of 7,000 antelope have been killed in two separate accidents resulting from bitterly cold weather, a spokesman for the Department of Fish and Game said. Both accidents occurred in Modoc County in the northeast corner of the state where most of California’s antelope live, said Paul Wertz, information officer for the Department of Fish and Game office in Redding. Ice collapsed under a herd of antelope trying to cross Ash Creek at Adin on California 299 about 40 miles southwest of Alturas, and 36 animals drowned. Two weeks earlier, a freight train ran into another herd that had bedded down on the Southern Pacific tracks between Tulelake and Canby, killing 21 animals and injuring six others.