| Show FIREMAN DIES AT POST OF DUTY f f Rio Grande Western Killed Kill d at Roy Station WRECK IK m DENSE FOG FOG 4 ANOTHER ANOTHER MAN KAN PROBABLY FA PA FATALLY FATALLY TALLY 4 4 KILLED 4 4 Frank Cowell unmarried Salt 4 Lake home in Grand Junction 4 f Colo Coio 1 SEVERELY 1 James Woolwine Salt Lake 4 may die dieD dieD f D C Gibson Salt Lake r INJURED 4 f J I C 2 Salt Lake f fJ s 4 J C Fraser Clinton 4 Special to The Herald HeraldO IN Jan 8 SAt At Roy station on OGDEN O J the Rio Grande Western Ve tern seven miles south of Ogden a south southbound bound hound freight train train crashed cr shed into IAtO a work week train this morning killing one man outright fatall fatally injuring a second and seriously Injuring three others Both engines were demolished and half a dozen cars reduced to scraps The wreck caught fire and burned for fora fora fora a short time before tore the flames ames were ex en extinguished The dense fog which submerged the landscape at the time UlBe was directly re responsible for the accident t but the charge is also made that the crew ere of the work train had failed to protect their train by signal nags flags though they were on the main line flue and knew the freight was expected The accident happened at just a a m The work train was engaged in I ballasting the track with gravel and the engine was attached to the rear of or orthe the train and was standing with the theca carsa ca a long lang train of lists flats loaded with gravel gravelon on the main mala line a few rods south of the Roy canning factory switch The freight train was No 15 Ii southbound rawn by engine No o 6 Oil with Engineer Engine r Sharp harp at the throttle and D C Gibson fireman No Ho Signal Lights Engineer Sharp said The fog was wasso wasso Wasso so dense I could only see a short dis dia distance tance tance ahead I did i not see the ether other engine till we were within about NI HI ed any ny did not see any not a 8 flag anywhere The work train crew had neglect neglected ed to put out any signals to warn us but they had reason to be on the lookout lot lor us from this morning until we should pass John Wheelwright Wheel t of Ogden O n foreman of the work train was in the engine when the crash came He was as thrown fully tuny thirty feet teet landing into the ditch alongside the caboose to which the tle work train engine had been coupled but was uninjured The train crews and workmen at once began to clear away way a the wreck in order to extricate Frank Cowell fire fireman fireman man mar of the work train engine who was known to be in iA the debris After about an hour of labor his hta body wa wa taken out from under his engine The skull had been cut in two by b a piece of the wreckage and death bath th had been Hen instantaneous James Woolwine head brakeman on Os the freight train jumped from the en engine engine engino gine gino and was struck by flying dyIng wreck wreckage wreckage wreckage age after the crash He suffered a broken leg many cuts cute and severe seere in internal internal internal injuries He with D C Gibson the other man most severely injured are at the hospital in Ogden J I C the engineer of the work train had bad a foot badly crushed J I C Fraser of or Clinton who was riding rl on the freight train had hIs tug lip Hp cut through by a bit of flying scrap iron Scene of Wreck The scene of or the tIre wreck shortly after ater the accident when visited by The Her Herald Herald ald aid reported was one of destruction destruction tion The impact of the Ute freight engine had earned carried it under the other engine the tender of which piled up over the boiler of No GOO The boiler of oC No 4 collapsed like a paper tube and the engines were jammed together in one great heap of twisted Iron and spUn splintered tere woodwork The caboose of the work train tin had beer beep lifted lUte bodily bily front from fro the t track thrown feet fe east est Into the ditch dich and a d the force forc of the t moving freight train tain tin had hd carried cr the th locked engines on beyond the th scene sn of the collision clion which was covered by b heaps of splintered and an twisted coal col cars cr Superintendent Welby and a Mr r James came up and superintended the t re removal moval of the wreckage Agent G of Ogden was early earl on the th scene with ih Dna Drs Dr Joyce Joyc and Perkins Perkins who wo superintended superintended tended the removal of ot the t injured to toChe the Che the hospital in Ogden Ogen Sharps Escape All Al railroad men mn agree ag that tt the th es e escape escape cape cp of Engineer James Jame Sharp Sarp was nothing short if I miraculous He stood up holding holing the throttle when the t crash came that tat wrenched his hi seat set from Its Jt place place tore t the th cab frame f from above his bi head and dashed off o the th win window In dow dew from beside his shoulders Yet Tet not nt so s much as a a piece of 0 coat coal c struck him hint himOt pe the train his would Of Ot alt all al places plc on th tin hs wold have hav been chosen chOn as that tat of the great greatest gt greatest est danger My l time had bad not nt come cm yet yet he said si in recounting the th affair afar I 1 wont die di till tl my time comes Ct Ive Ive been in live five wrecks bad bd ones OD and a never got g a scratch sate I shall sl go g on Os O railroading of course cour When my times t conies comes e Ill Iu die whether I am a on a a train ti or O crossing a street str t General Geral Superintendent A A E Welby after spending the th greater gt part of the day on the th scene a of the t wreck wre re no returned turned turn to Salt Lake at 5 oe yes ves yesterday afternoon ateon on a freight train t Until there the has h nas been an official ocl in investigation I he be h said si I do not nt care ce ceto to make me any aDY statement as to the t re no r lly o this thi accident It would not nt be fair fa to bm blame anybody until all al the facts fact have hav been brought out Frank M Dr Cowell was w 22 years of age ae and had bad bd he lived Jv until unU the th end of f the th present month would woul have been bEn in h the service of the te Rio Grande Grane c four years ye He is I a native of Grand Graid Junction Colo Co COb where hee his bl parents 13 lve lIVO ve veat at the te present time tim He began work ork for the he company one year yea ago last May He was unmarried His H body b is LF now held awaiting instructions frd fr his family r James ames O 0 Woolwine was a bor born L I county Vir Virginia te n three the ree years ago and moved move br u j jand years ago when he came to Usia c cand yrs eam t t I and an secured sur employment with wt the t t Grande Western Railway company 1 e eI I Iwas was first employed as fireman firem but bt 33 promoted to the position of engin a er eO eOon eron i ion engl I on account of or his hi strict attention to t duty He secured his position with he heI j I company in July Ju 1898 1598 and nd has beer b in i ithe the employ of the road since ineE that t L j t B c cHe i I He is I unmarried and has h no rt res resin es esin in the west He has apartments tb h a West Wet Second South Sut street st in this 41 |
