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Show M OGDEN MAN AMONG INJURED BROKEN WHEEL $ CAUSE OF SMASH larold R. Jackson, 3024 i Adams, Suffers Broken Leg Al in Short Line Wreck I BRIGHAM CITY WOMAN j AMONG THOSE INJURED j Farmer's Daughter, Eye Wit- ness of Derailment, De- I scribes Accident (By staff Correspondent -:BHB1 DOWNEY, Ida, July 31 lkc de-l railment of Oregon Short Line train ifwSjl No. 32 near Yenda, five miles south; Bfl ot Downey, at 6:3U iouay v. as MKSI caused by a iuu;e wueel o:. tn teo- Ijflf xLVJ uci oi U. P. eiuu.: -so. jiii. tnc lend- raftjawJ locomotive oi tne puatteixgei' u-uxn, WtB uci-oruing 10 1 vaults ot un investigation conuueted at tne act-no oi uiu wreck BB by railroad officials. : 1 nM No evidence oi lne rails having MB spread wai found bj me oinclals j H i.'i the ten cars m me train, only gfll : ii 1 1 1 1 o ii" private "i '- I fanlH 0. Mansou. superintendent ot ine ida-; I'l'Ln llM division oi in Oregon isnort Lute, IJajH leuiulned on the rail.-. 4 1 -J " : ';jpMBa - The otlui c-i i . i . . piTJd up alonCf IHpJ s.de the rignt-of-waj HpH Harold R. Jackson, 3uii-l Adams mpPQJ avenue, ogucn, liau ids icu kg nuc- 1 lured. jBjoHl) Edward M it ley. of Salt Lake, (ire- UEBLY man on the second eifgliie, AU SJ.05S, h39 suffered a orokcu ieg. gosiies user Ltiei MU-M eye una a deep cut oil iue uuca oi his JBSfl head. He was reuiovea to Pocateuo fOjf wiicic pnyaiciuns autne hospital say, 'jffcflfl liUs condition is critical, ihgaaj Mrs, W. hi. Moore and daughter iM Helen, oi Ogden, n p on (9HfH tne tram, out were unhurt, alia, g 8 Moon Husband dining i r un- 'Apjl dUCtOl n Lilt. fiKHHT A revised list ot the oth r injured, SHMmJI an of whom were removed in a special HkBI train to tne Cocateiio hospital) tun-; x : tains .1.' nameu fhey are in passe'n- R-jS gets whu boarded tne train in Hie lgSnl northwest: 4$ 'i LIST OF VICTIMS They include . KjUW tK.Nl'.bl' DOLTON, JmjBBe KDWaRD LACiuy, JaBu litED UUD6, IS aiLUA.l DUxtTY, V .1 THOMPSON, E4 l 1 LA, faj J. A. SUMMERSON PBpBg ARiON LcULi&l i L.R, Ktifl LATO MaTABICO, 7i V, E. ORlBtt, UR liDWAKD tlOHERETTE, WL&jr JOHK A IDERaON L.E1 POHVEKA, ' E, J BAKER, JT ' i HAROLD ti. (ACKSON, B02J Ad- HJ MURIEL AVERx. jjjJM ALBERT Hi PE, R .MEEK. Ka .MRS. EDNA ROBIN ETTA, Brlff- GIRL si i s SMASH. ' ,4b Vlolel i'. daughtei oi fivSM llvlnj; at tnda. wRnessed the accident from a tlejd adjoining thi rai fm ns4t-of-way. She said she heard u slight crash rHf) and her attention was called to the1 Kjf front engine apparently bum ping over! th lies. The train was traveling doWU-gr&df and had Joat taken . a curve mar Ule BUiUufl. IFgl The train drove on about 100 yards MJpl and Btruck a "derail , going lntu Un- m ditch. M'j The mall car crashed into a gondul;i H g on a siding and the entire side Was W " torn off. Three mall clerks rnlracu- WjJI lously escaped with their lives HQ 4 rha chair car In which must of the, Hb j lnju inJnik' i B piling u just uff the tiai k FARMERS RESPOND. i Fred Bowers. Claude Whllaker and1 I John Pratt, farmers working In " i m J nearby field, heard the crash and j rushed to the aid of the passengers In II the overturned chair car. Ij As soon as the crash came, Buper- Intendent Mansont R- H- Smith and H H;l Bi Morris, O. S. D. claim agents, and 1 Ira Meredith, riding in Manaon'S pri- I xnie car, rushed out. While Suier- lri'iident Manson wired lu Pocatello tot doctors and a wrecking crow, the other men helped remove the Injured. They brukc Into the car and found u number of men huddled In a idle near I the door all apparently unconscious I from shock. I Bedding was removed from the I uleeppr.s and with the railroad flrst- I old kits the injured were made us J comfortable as possible on the lm- H piovised beds laid in the adjoining I j field, H 1 Later the sleepers were turned Into H J ambulance cars and the nineteen ln- H J jurcd men and the young woman Were H 4 removed to Pocatello Li, The overturned cars Included the inL l;la" ,:,u' two baggak'.? aiH. ininkvi, ! J one coach, diner and one sleep, i M ' MKMBER8 OF RBW, HI The crew uf engine No. SI 12 was ISI Charles Thompson, onglnocr and A. IMM Gillespie, fireman. ESnglneei A. J . I I Continued on Page Eight) I Broken Wheel Cause of Smash Near Downey i l oiillnucd from I'aue Oin-j Urennan and Fireman Edward Mitley had charge of engine No. 3102. They all live in Salt Iake. With the exception excep-tion of Milley, they escaped injury. When members of the wrecking crew entered the express car ihey found a horse belonging to the American Ameri-can Express company, being shipped fiom Pocatello to Salt Lake, buried under a pile of express. ineluning cheese and milk The frightened animal, ani-mal, uninjured was staked out in the field, where it stood with rjuivertng nostrils, emitting frightened neighs from time to time. PEIRt l OJi ion Superintendent K. A. 1'eirce, formerly for-merly of gden, was in charge of ine wrecking crew, dispatched Irum 1'oca- Ullo. lo protect following trains. Charles Lee. icai btakeman on the Wrecked num. rau five miles td Downey. A special truln carrying General Mi.nat.ei M V. Plait and General Superintendent H. F. Knickerbocker. 'Assistant Superintendent A. Davis und 'I'oclors Li ngi-iib'-r ger and Plnkerton i of Sail Lake, arrived at the Kens of the wreck from ogden about noon. V. P. Abbey, assistant sales man-, man-, rfger of Scripps-Booth Automobile i company of Detroit with Mrs. Abbey 'occupied a berth on the overturned sleeper, but were not hurt. .O. S. L. trains 41 and 42 arrived .on the scene following the accident iand were held up for several hours. I Passengers -and baggage were trans-If trans-If erred from one train to the other 'and the trains were reversed, return -1 Ing to Pocatello and ugden, respec-: respec-: tlvely. General Superintendent Knickerbocker Knicker-bocker announced leiat traffn would ILv; discontinued over the line until the 'wreckage was cleared and the tracks made safe. This would not be before Monday, he Intimated. S l I OJfD W KECK Violet Pratt, who was a witness to the derailment, said that two weeks , ago a freight train was derailed at the same point and 14 cars left the I track. Three days prior to that accl- c nt. the, trucks of the first coach of the same truln that was derailed toda). to-da). left the track Kutlroad officials on the ground announced an-nounced that an official Investigation I o the w reck would be Instituted Im-i Im-i tdlately. Pending the decision of (the boord of Inquiry no further an-I an-I rcuncement regarding the accident wculd be made. oo |
