Show AWFUL RAILWAY COLLISION Nine Men Killed Outright and Eight Seriously Injured In-jured AT AMERICAN FALLS DEPOT A Headend Collision Between Freight and Passenger Ii Trains I Eastbound Passenger From Portland Standing at the Station Crashed Into by a Freight Running at IJ Fifty Miles a Hour The Engines Converted Into Scrap Iron and the Cars Piled Up in Debris The A Brakes Would Not Work and the Engineer Lost Control of the Engine En-gine Station House Demolished i List of Dead and Injured The I Latter Brought t Salt Lake and I Placed in St Marks Hospital I Engineer Heckmans Graphic Account Ac-count of the Accident i I Special to The Herald Pocatello Ida May 27The most disastrous railroad accident in the history his-tory of the Oregon Short Line railroad occurred at American Falls 25 miles west of here at 3 this morning No 24 an eastbound freight crashed Into the west bound Portland express while the latter was standing at the station > me men were killed outright and eight seriously injured Both engines were demolished the depot building almost totally wrecked and some 15 freight cars with their contents smashed to pieces k THE DEAD The dead are C W SHIELDS 35 years of age residence unknown D L THOMPSON of Dayton Wash JOHN R COOPER of Wellsville Utah 1tai1 I J STIFFAN of Dillon Mont FIVE OTHER IEN whose identity has not been established THE INJURED I The Injuredare I G W BUENNAN of Pearl lda leg j broken and bad scalp wound JOHN BERGEN of Bingham Utah leg broken I j T D SPRINGER of Dayton Wash I leg and ribs broken WILLIAM CONNELLY of Great I Barrington Mass crushed about lower f portion of stomach cannot live I JOHN PETERS residence unknown leg broken GEORGE MOORE engineer of I freight compound fracture of leg and side bruised I R COSGROVE fireman of freight leg broken and badly bruised about the body I E C HECKMAN engineer of passenger pas-senger back injured CONNOLLY died on board a train while being conveyed to the hospital at Salt Lake TRAIN CREW NOT TO BLAME I is not thought any blame can be attached to either train crew The express ex-press was waiting at the depot for the freight to pass when the latter came thundering around the curve at terrific speed She signalled to the express to back up but the time was very short and before Engineer Heckman of the passenger had an opportunity to more than get his train under way the crash came Cars were piled up onto the t depot utterly demolishing It and Agent sf Clair and his family who I I were asleep In the building had a i miraculous escape from instant deaTh John Cooper Frank Busk and Night I I i Operator Goodwin were talking on the i j depot platform a moment previous I I Seeing the runaway freight coming I I Cooper ran into the depot and was killed Burke and Goodwin took refuge behind the building and escaped I I Brannan who was on the platform naiLing for the train was buried in the I wreck THE AIR AT FAULT I The direct cause of the accident was du to the air on the freight being cut off andthe engineer losing control of the train I is believed this was done by some tramps who were stealing I ing a ride Conductor Cook with his brakeman assisted by Fireman Cosgrove made every effort to control the train but without avail The wreck presented a scene of indescribable destruction I CHAOS REIGNS The cut in front of the depot was I pie high with broken cars the i wrecked station and demolished en j gines Ties were torn up and tele1 I graph poles and wires were mixed in one vast heap A relief train left this city for the scene at once and soon returned re-turned conveying the wounded to the hospital at Salt Lake Out of 100 passengers pas-sengers aboard the train Brennan was i the only one injured he had stepped from the train for an instant when he I was caught The Portland train was L delayed but three hours AH of those 1 kilUd wen sheep shearers stealing a I M ride on the freight train |