Show GRAPHIC TALES ALES T OF DEA DE A TH DEALING WRECK ARE TOLD BY ARRIVING PASSENGERS m f Escape of Mrs McCauley and Her Little Girl One the i Miracles Wreck Oh it was horrible The Honor cf of the fright the ne cries cri s and The Ih deml e lIl pi plO o ople I cant blot out the sight sigh I wa wn to asleep at the time of or the accident 1 I the first thing thine I knew I vis wis W II lying through space apace I could only Inh think trunk what a horrible death this thin is and find then everything was black WInn YIt m I i I gained my thought th i iwas was of my little gIrls Jut but ut It was sev sey several several eral oral hours before we WC found her bel You Youcan Youcan Youcan can have han no id Idea a of how awful it was wasHer wasHer Her H r cheeks heek still blanching tit at t tIle lie thought of the pe U n j x had passed her left l to protect her fractured hand hf r streaked with the cruel croci marks markt of lie Hie barb barbed d wire into which she had been hurled from the Mrs lr rs M t tM Y W M auley of or WInnemucca Nev Ne yes yesterday yesterday ed afternoon told a Herald reporter r port r of or her h r experience In the wreck nn em u the Denver Rio Grande railroad Friday night near nar Springs Cob Colo in whit which were and many ni m r J injured Mr In story stor was t lil on rn a aI I moving train During Its It recital Elma Ima wa was II run mu running muning ning up ip cud nd down the aisle of th the car I With the hit th c Tos rn nd ld sticking plaster on her lr n 1 c it t wa va 3 tnt not ne nl to be I i told that she sIte hind hod gone through v wreck wrede reck but there were wore meri In n the thear car ar to Whose eyes each 91 that plaster brought rol ro git tears To Ti T Utile EIna th horrible thit h u uda even the da day M ml t ti frong ng men nien and brave women was a childish lad inci incident dent bringing no more moro grief than t tC tumbling down of her play blocks Tin Put fact that men struggled for hours cursing In iu their rage at immovable debris and then with tears streaming down their cheeks cheek as at they lifted her ber almost unhurt from the tilt top of a pile of five fI dead bodies has already al already already ready been forgotten by Elma Ema Me Mc McCauley Ie Cauley I Between 4 6 last night fh sections running as train No o 5 of the Denver Deliver Rio filo Grande arrived In Salt gaIt Sa It T Lake Jake the first trains nac the wreck The rhe first two currIed carries many of those there who were in ni the wreck and proceeding cither either west we t or north Responsibility for Wreck Representatives of Herald board boor boarded ed cd the trains at It t Prove yesterday aft aCt afternoon afternoon and obtained graphic accounts of or the th wreck from rom those thole who were were on onI the train I Summed up the various Interviews In on expressed the one sentiment while the accident was due to the error error of the engineer and conductor yet the th fright frightful ful loss of life was due to other otner cIr clr cl It was pointed out that It was the flimsy construction of o the time chair car that contributed most to the list of or dead and Injured This car ate described d by one man as nothing but buta butI a match box bo rind although It was I hUed filled to Its capacity only four es rs escaped caned ca ed without serious cartons injury Mccauley and daughter and amI two men menThe menThe The escape of or Mrs McCauley Mcauley anti and daughter was little less than miraculous miraculous lous bus The story of her experience lb it best told In her own on words I 1 J was In Ira the chair car with my lit littie tie tic girl When Ull she sot got sleepy In the evening I laid her hor In one of the seats across the aisle and then dozed off oil to sleep myself The first thing I 1 knew kaew there was an awful crash and then I seemed to be flying through space In that little minute the thought flashed through my m mind what a horrible death this Is Tile next thing I knew people were bending over oer me For a awhile while hile It seemed that I had lost all aU my senses and I could think of nothing Then all aU of or a sudden I remembered and called for my m little We find her at first and amid tin the th thought that site she was us killed drove droe me frantic After a while some men found her lying on top of some dead men and andin andin andin in a big pile of the wreckage How she escaped I cant tell tellI I was on my way home after a visit In New Mexico but as long Ion as I live I 1 never want to get on a railroad train again I shudder overy every time I think t of OJ It and I dont believe I can over 1 1 forget the sight R A Story R n A Ellison Elli on of Fort Worth Tex who was en route for or Alaska and with the intention of slopping st off of In Salt Sail Lake for some time was wall one of or the thu themen thumen men who escaped from the chair car carand carand r rand and who assisted in the rescue of Mrs Irs McCauley McCaul e and her little girl He lIe es cc escaped escaped without a scratch What I cant understand yet veL et lie hp said Hald when speaking of the wreCk is how that woman and little girl ever es en escaped escaped with their In the collision the tourist car next n to the chair car simply ply plowed through sending om of Ute time car to toward toward toward ward the river the other half halt toward the mountain side arid the roof well all over I dont think you ou could have hae up a piece of that car two feet In length The people in the car ear were ere simply ground and crushed I Mrs Irs McCauley was thrown n through the roof of the car and landed on a barb wire fence almost at the rivers edge We got her up and found that she sh was not fatally injured although gh t Woman Hurled Through Roof oLCar of Car and Strikes s Bar Barb i iVi Vi Fe Edge her hand haid was vas broken and her face lacerated from the barbed wire viro wi Then rhen we began brgan to U search for the II little ale girl We finally found her on top of o a heap of wreck wreckage ge but how she ever ter escaped i irom being killed kilted is the miracle We Ve VeI I had hU to cut our way through the roof of the ear car to get set at her and then found I her lying on top of five live men who had been killed outright The only thing tiling that saved her was that a piece of the piping of o the ear car twisted into almost perfect I erf Ct letter k E had been thrown up above her and lia had l h held ld up the tbt roof and the other part of or the wrecked w kd car Blind Baggage Victim One poor fellow a tramp who ho was Voas riding the blind baggage between the locomotive tender and the te baggage car ear was literally crushed into a wilier wafer Tho The Thop passengers p who were killed or injured were all occupants of the tile chair car and it il is in this that the company h Is j to 11 t be bt blamed Its true that the engineer man lan past his meeting point with tue freight train but the conductor also al was to blame blamo Time Tho Th chances are art that we were wera a little late latt they thought th thy y could uld save time But it If I the chair car cr had Continued on Page 5 GRAPHIC TALES OF DEATH DEALING WRECK ARE TOLD BY ARRIVING PASSENGERS Continued from Page 1 been of proper construction the thit chances are that no one would have hav ha been killed The beams of the car were only 2 by S 8 Inches and the whole car was crushed in just as if it were a 11 match box All AU AUthe the other cars cais withstood the th For instance the smoking car was t saved from being hurled down Into the I river by 1 reason of Its strong stron construe construct t ton on and that Its coupling with the bag baggage baggage baggage gage car held heldT T A 1 Tucker traveling from Cook Neb to Spokane Wash ash had llad just re retired retired retired tired to his berth when tie Hie sickening ick crash of the colliding trains came The force of the tho Jar threw him like runny other passengers from his berth but re te e ewas was able to scramble out 0 quickly and aided in the work vork of rescue The most remarkable thin thing about it he said la Js that fire brcak br ak out in the wreck If it had there would have been many more more deaths as it took hours to get some of the people out of the wreckage Mr Tucker also criticises the th railroad company for or the paper chair ch il cur car but spoke In the highest terms of ot praise pralle of the work of the train crew and com corn company company pany following the wreck wrack These men possibly have hae done more than they did and the all worked like Trojans to help helD the peo reo people pie Porters Heroic Work W A Wilson one of the tourist car porters came in for tor much commenda commendation tion for his heroic work At tho the timo time of the wreck he was engaged In preparing ing lug the berths b in iii his car carI I have been In two wrecks before b tore he said and the instant the thock shock came I knew kne what had happened ned I rushed to the front end of the car and saw sas the car in front turn ys rs Then I heard the screams of f those hurt and I yelled to my to get out The other porter and I helped them out through the doors hut two of the ladies ladles we had to get bet out through the window With Ith his clothes still showing the bloodstains of those whom he had nad helped to care for Wilson lIson with nil ail his experience of the hardships of the rail road keep from shuddering as ashe ashe ashe he recalled re some of the incidents of Jf the wreck One thing I will never forget There was a family of father mother and a little boy bo and girl sri The girl irl enly enl four or five years old and she he is the only one left lett of that family The father lived for several hours after the col coT collision collision but he was pinned down by iron and heavy heay beams beame He kept crying out for somebody to shoot him and he suf suffered suffered suffered hours of agony agon before he died Tho The little girl was wan taken to Glenwood Springs without knowing that her lath fath lather father er and mother and her little brother were dead I Trained Nurse at Hand I Miss Blanche McKibben of Lincoln Neb earned the title of a mother of cf f the whole bunch as a one pass put it IL it Being a trained nurse slid sh began her work with the injured and brought relief rolef to many Dr W J Bakus of Stockton Cl Cal C who was returning from London Londin ren rendered rn dered dere invaluable service in relieving the injured and did much to save se It life be before betor before fore tor the doctors arrived arved front from the te near nearby nr nearby by towns Over Ove passengers who were in the wreck came through to Salt Sal Lake ke last night and were domiciled in various hotels hotes The wreck occurred at a point int be between between tween twe n Dotero Dotsero and Spruce creek cree about miles mies from Glenwood According to the told loW lol by the te passengers the conductor and an engineer engine of the passenger train trin No 0 i had orders order to meet a freight train trin at a a siding there thee The engineer passed the siding since stating that tat ho he had mis mistaken 11 mistaken taken the time by eight minutes but the Ule opinion is expressed tse by b the gers gr that tat the te engineer thought he ho could ud make mke Spruce creek rek before the freight frog t The two trains met on a sharp sharD curve cre about abut 3 yards ar beyond the siding At Atthe t the tho point where the tho collision llon occurred curt the track IP II cut ut in tho the side of the noun tain tam the Grand river running eighty feet bw below the sheer embankment In the confusion of the rrok many man manof of those bound bH to the California Cl coast c t lost their tickets but Jt It was as announced last from the office of th Salt i Lake Le route that all aU who had been beca i on I I I the wrecked train and who would pro pre present pr sent set a a statement from the Ilia nl Grande Gr nde road road that they had hod ha been on the train and were routed over the Salt Sal Lake tion ton route would receive their ther transportation SCENE OF THE DISASTER Debris Will Wi Be Carefully Searched a Second Time Glenwood Springs Colo Cob Tan Jan Ja 17 The confusion following the wreck at Dotsero Dotero is gradually being beng straightened The track has been entirely cleared and traffic resumed without Interruption The debris debrs resulting from the wreck weck thrown to one side Willie while searching for bodies and clear clearing clearIng clearing ing the track tack is to be picked up care carefully care carefully fully and nothing will wi be burned on the ground save Me the broken splinters and those thoe not until they have been carefully gone through a second time lest a body ody might still ll be lying therein The situation Is I being beng directed by General Manager Ridge Ridgeway way of tho the Denver Rio Grande who remains here until tomorrow Working with wih him are General Surgeon Surgen OConnor I and Claims Agent and a corps cor I of ot assistants Dr OConnor Is person personally personally ally aly supervising the care of ot the Injured Injure and a assisting in the Identification of the dead dead while Rennick Is preserving nil all al prop property property erty and possible clues to Identification No Deaths Among Injured I There have been no deaths among amon the Injured since yesterday and more hope Is IsI I entertained Inure for the recovery of those whose condition Is serious There were one hundred and passengers pengers on the train trin and most of these are ac accounted acc accounted counted c for It Is known that a number proceeded on their journey journe without being reported report d Some of the unknown dead have been Identified today toay All Al the men mon have been Identified in nearly every case post positively The railway was greatly greaty assisted in this by b the Associated Press Ps representative representative George Gerge Mahan of Princeton Ind md Indis is missing and it i is possible that he ho may maybe maybe maybe be one of the men concerning whose Iden Identification identification there is not positive proof His Is wife wie is one of ot the seriously injured and ad In no condition to give a She insists that her husband husbad ge and father were on the train The father Henry Dunn of St Louis Luts has been found among tho the dead ded The telegraph office offe here hETe has been flooded foe with dispatches from anxious rela relatives relative lives tives tive addressed to supposed passengers on the wrecked train In many Instances the railway people arc are able ablo to give ghe ad addressee addre addresses dresses where the persons can pan bo be b found but there are a number of names name which do not appear apper among the tho list of passengers passengers gers List of Injured Injure The following list lit contains the Uie names namo of the injured with wih a a report of their con condition cn today diton Thomas Joust Joliet olet Iii II scalp wound abrasion of face fac fractured rib woun L 1 J Ezell Ezel Williston Wilston N D internal Injuries multiple contused wounds con condition serious diton argarEt Ezell Williston X N D lacer lacerated lacerated sted wounds left lef leg Ie and left leU arm con contusion of neck nek W Yo H Jefferey Jeferey engineer Glenwood Springs Spring compound fracture left lef foot font foot frac fracture fracture rae ture ure of right thigh condition serious Lydia Maham laham Princeton Ind large contused lacerated wound of both thighs compound contuse fracture of left ankle contusion of f face fac condition serious serious Charles Charlee Charle P Manse Manee Iane Rockland Cal gen general general eral iral contusions and Mrs Charles Chales P dance Manee Mane Rockland Rokland Cat Cal shock will wi eon con continue en journey tomorrow tomorrowS tnt S a J y Martin Martn Covington Ky dislocation 1 left eft lee elbow elbo fractured fracture rib small scalp I wound sound I Harvey Mitchell fireman Salida Salda dis dIe dislocated |