Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-10-31 | Page 1 | Circus People Die as Express Wrecks Special

i! GIRCUS PEOPLE f DIE AS EXPRESS IEMECWL r Four Seriously Injured in 1 Louisiana Crash; Conduc- tor and Brakeman Reports' Report-s' ed Missing in Collision PASSENGERS HURLED J FROM THEIR BERTHS ; Engineer F ails JoJ5eeCarni-! JoJ5eeCarni-! val Train Until Almost i Upon It; Nearby Towns Send Medical Assistance NEW ORI.EANS. I., Oct. II. i Three dead, four seriously Injured nnd ' two slightly hurt was the toll taken ' In the rear-end railroad wreck early today when the fast Sunset Express, jj New Orlcans-San Francisco Southern J'aciflc pnssenKer train No. 109, tore . Into the Wortham Carnival shows spe-l spe-l clal, 33-rar train, en route from New Orleans to New Iberia, La. The dead are: Homer V. Jones, Will C. Jones, broMieit. and K. U Mctcalf, all circus f.lkl. The conductor and brakeman of the train were ri ported missing. The Injured also were members of the r,rcu. Those on the passenger trs:n escaped Injury. HURLED PROM SCRTHS. Ths locomotive of the passenger trsln plowed thrr jgh two of tt sleep- ers on the rear end of te circus train j I before it wss biwught to a standstill. W I and, according to stories told by tha I injured, the elrcu. iwifonneia who I I wtre asleep were hurled from their I berths as the lullman burst opVn from I j tlio temfle Impact. - I I falls for assistance wwee sent. ae. j Jiearby towns and ambulances, phy t a'flfns and nurjits were rushed to the scene. Thij ued end Injured were -. taken to I'uttwson. Ia. l'afsengrs on the Sunset Express airit-d thw train crews tn chopping open ponl'in of the Pullmans where other circ-us folk were trapsed and crying out for tescue. as fire was feared. All were relieved rescued. , Kirst reports Indicated the Sella-Eloto Sella-Eloto circus special train waa Involved. a that tram waa moving on tracks In that locslity. SEVERAL INJURED. Among those Injured were Miss Irene Murphy, Mr. Huith Jones. Charles Kloar and Fred Miller. They will recover, re-cover, physicians declsred. According to survivors In the Tat-i terson siinitarum. the carnival train1 wr.s proceeding westward under orders. "When It reached Adellnn It was ordered or-dered to allow a freight train going east to pass. The brakeman IlKhted his red flares and went back to the circus train. When the Sunset Express pulled In behind, the engineer eaw . the flares and stopped his train un:ll thcy dlea down and then proceeded. He did not ! ere the rear-end lights of the circus : trslrt until Hlmost on top of It. It is claimed, as his eyes were blinded by the searchlight of the locomotive pulling pull-ing the freiKjlt train.