| Show TWO TO LIVES LOST LOSTIN i IN RAilWAY WRECK Awful Suffering Experienced Following Explosion of Engine Bringing a story of a fatal boiler explosion on the Uintah railway far farup farup up in the snow which occurred Jan January January uary 7 W W V Cluff jr has returned to Salt Lake In all the annals of rail raU railroad road disaster no more fearful wreck has occurred and while only two lives were lost the sufferIng and hardship of and pass passengers were be beyond beyond yond The accident happened between Mack and Dragon for tor which latter place the train was bound The train left Mack Mackin in the afternOOn ot of January 6 and en encountered encountered countered deep drifts of snow all the way along the line The train barely escaped several anyone any one of which would have buried It Ar Arriving Arriving riving at Baxter pass miles mUes from Mack the train was stalled by a heavy wall of snow at least twenty feet high Baxter pass Is one of the highest points in the and the engineer fireman and to together together gether with a brakeman and nine pas passengers passengers were facing a perU peril which re resembled death itself While stalled at this point In the mountains the water In the engine be became became came exhausted and to keep up steam snow was used but the boiler boller became too hot and finally exploded killing Sutton who was on the engine and Fireman Samuel Hancock Sutton was killed outright but Han Hancock cock cack lived until the following morn mornIng morning Ing When the explosion occurred the passengers were huddled about the stove in the passenger coach The body of the was taken Into one end of the coach and the fireman was laid out In another end where his groans and cries were ere heard all night After suffering fourteen four fourteen teen hours death relieved him The passengers were kept busy stocking the fire In the stove for out outside outside side the cold was Intense There was no food and in the presence of the two dead men there was no appetite on the part ot of the passengers The little train was stalled In Baxter pass until Saturday afternoon When a snow plow was forced through from Dragon and the train went back to Atchee station The track was finally finall clear cleared d and the nIne passengers were again taken over the road reaching Dragon Sunday morning at 1 The body of Sutton was sent to his late home In Ohio and that of Fireman Hancock to Grand June Junc Junction tion where he left lett a wl widow ow and daugh daughter ter terA A brief summary ot of the accident was carried in the special dispatches t The shortly after the mishap but Mr Cluff is the fir ti from tie scene of the wreck to relate reInt the experiences |
