Show DASHES INTO OPEN Four Ate Are Dead and Twelve I Lie Suffering In Hos Hospital pital at Ogden Special to The I Ogden Jan illium Naughton aughton head bead brakeman of the freight ht train all responsible for lor the wreck of the I I train at Le May lay this morning was the announcement from the offices of I 4 the Southern Pacific tonight although the tue official results of th the meeting 4 of n a board ot of inquiry JI have e not yet been given ghen out outI Naughton with others otIen of the freight ht crew had urea cutting out half haIt R a I t dozen cars for the siding shUng at Le May lay and aud had backed backell on 00 to 10 the aiding front I tIle 1110 west end The freight train hud scarcely cleared the main line when 4 1 the headlight of the speeding passenger front the west The 11 witch Itch was left entirely open OIen and the crush crash came rume without to tot 4 eIther t r rT crew l a t escaped I injury t A I A I I A A A A I A A A S A A A A A A A A A A I TT T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T Careering through an open switch at atthe atthe the rate of forty miles an hour east eastbound eastbound bound Southern Pacific passenger No C 6 crashed headon against the engine ot of westbound extra freight No 2296 at LeIa LeMay eighty miles west of Ogden at yesterday morning causing the death of four trainmen and the In Injury Injury jury of twelve others The dead are Jatres Janes Reardon Ogden engineer on freight train burled buried beneath engine R B A Knoll Kroll Ogden brakeman on freight train C H Bixler Bialer Leadville Colo riding on passenger engine A S finley engineer on passenger en engine engino gino gine died at Ogden hospital at 10 last night The Injured are George fireman leg le broken J E Hartwell fireman sprained ankle cut about head Forrest P Carroll mall mail clerk knee dislocated John W Naylor mall clerk bruised about head James P Cantwell jr mall mail clerk toot foot and back Injured Guy R It Prentiss man mail clerk broken rib ribE E B S Ransom mall mail clerk head and arm ann Injured Louis E Jackson mall mali clerk back and shoulder injured Carl W Betts Bette mall mail clerk slight bruises Claude E mail clerk leg bruised Ed Edward ard A Hart mall mail clerk arm ann In Injured injured None of the passengers were hurt due to the protection afforded b by the two steel mall mail cars which received the great greater er force of the shock and wherein every occupant was Injured to some extent I Collided on Siding The freight train westbound had taken the siding but the switch had been left lett open by William Villi am Naughton brakeman ot of the freight He could not tell why he had left It open and said he remembered about it The passenger train running about forty miles an hour had the rIght of way Va over the main line but Engineer A S HinlEY did not see ree the red light set against him until It was too late His engine swerved from the main line into the swItch before anyone had a chance to jump and struck the freight engine with terrIfic force I Engineer Reardon sitting In the cab cabot ot of the freight engine was also taken unawares and was burled beneath the wre his body being extricated several hours later Brakeman Kroll was also caught under the wreckage Bixler was riding on the passenger engine and was killed almost Instantly A pass had been Issued to him from Sparks to Ogden expiring January 13 As his transportation was not good goodon on the train he was riding In the en engine engine gine with Engineer finley He was wasa a member ot of Leadville lodge F A AM M 1 and of Santa Rosa lodge Broth Brotherhood Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and En Engineers Engineers The Masons and firemen at Ogden wIll bury the body It was at Continued on Page Six PASSENGER DASHES I INTO OPEN SWITCH Continued From Page One first thought that he was a student fireman named Jones but this was corrected In a later report from the scene of the wreck The passenger train was In charge of W V A A Middleton conductor while W D Tribe was the conductor of tile the freight train Relief Trains Sent SentA A relief train was started tram from Og den at yesterday morning with SuperIntendent F C Manson of the division in charge Dr n H S Joyce of Ogden the company surgeon headed a staf staff of nurses The wrecker and two coaches were attached to the train This relief train arrived at atthe atthe the scene of the wreck at 6 30 While relief wa was being rushed from Ogden a similar train starting five minutes later was speeding eastward tram from Montello the division point This train arrived at LeMay at 6 20 The Work worle train which has been kept at Lakeside WaS was also sent to the scene of the wreck Leaving the wrecking crew at work the Ogden relief train started back backwith wih with the dead and Injured at 9 reaching Ogden about noon Naughton has a good record In the service the em employ employ ploy April 28 1909 and was promoted to conductor In October From Jan January January uary to December 1904 he had been braking on the Denver Rio Grande from which road he went to the San Pedro Ls Los Angeles Salt Lake road later joining the Union Pacific until he began his with the South Southern ern em Pacific For a a distance of feet teet the track was torn up the freight engine turned over and the two mal mail cars and the baggage coach left the rails maing making a complete blockade The wrecking crew put everything In shape during the morn mornIng morning Ing and the trace track was entirely clear at p ni m niThe The trainmen and passengers did al all allIn In their power to help the Injured said W H Deardorf Deardorff of England N D who wih with his wife and faily family occupied berths In the tourist sleeper Eary Early In the morning we were shaken out of our sleep by a shock and luckily none non of us was hurt We knew there m must st have ben bena been beena a fearful collion collision and that some one surelY was kled killed Stepping out of the car I saw the trainmen running through the dark with their lanterns and up ahead there wi wa the noise of at escaping steam and the groans of the Injured In the wreckage I never wl will forget the hor horrible horrible sight that m met t my eyes as I reached the head ot of our train but I cannot ade adequately adequately describe ft t The engines were clasped together In a death engnes embrace and the twisted steel overhanging wreckage ot of others cars ad and the furrowed ground made mado 0 a fearful spectacle When daylight came we could see the awful extent of the damage and then every passenger on that trin train sent up a prayer of thank thankfulness over the narrow escape from sud sudden sudden den deat death When the returning train arved arrived at Wen 1 Ogden with the dead Injured and pas passenger passengers of the passenger train the bodes bodies were taken at once to the morgue and the Inured injured were taken to the Ogden General hospital |