Show CORONERS JURY ODES DOES I NOT PlACE BlAME fOR EXPlOSION ON AYO ANYONE The coroners jury composed of ot H li B Parkin and Ezra Bua THatch T Hatch of oC Sc South Bountiful and Whitney K Roberts oC nest cst Bountiful rendered tho verdict after aCter having hoard heard the testimony of witnesses and having inspected the place near the Cudahy Packing p plant where the explosion occurred when a a D fC ROW R G W V train struck a truck loaded boa with dynamite caps cape on Tuesday and three U wen men v were ere killed V o W e find that these three persons pens Rugg and Prinsen came to their heir deaths by the explosion of oC certain coil caps being hauled In a tr truck acro s the tracks of oC the Denver Rio Western estern railroad laid said saving having been caused by the Impact of ot the coming oming together of oC the D R G C engine and said truck loaded with cc caps SS e a i are unable to find any criminal r e We recommend t tome some ome action be taken by the present pres to enact some law to pro pro- protect p pro protect the public governing the hurl and nd trucking of oC explosives on our hi high highways highways ways rays We e also recommend that signals sign signe be e placed at all side crossings Tho The Inquest was conducted by Coun County Co Coy County ty y Attorney William A Dawson Dason Daw Da son in Jus J JIce Ice J f l SS W Hill Hili s court In the city ity council room Wednesday Dale and ind Cleon who v vere ere among the first on the scene aCter of the to explosion and who took the tit truc driver river to the hospital give the tho follow Collow- folio following ing ig account of ot the accident They had just returned from Crom the city c ct In t their car Dale having gone Into the I house ouse when the explosion occurred so he e and his brother got back into the i machine and raced down to the ere reck which Is something like a mile Crom fr their semi home bome They found that one man James Prinsen had bad been killed that George eorge W was as In a dying with his right arm and right rig rigg leg g oft off so they rushed him to St larks Mar hospital but he died be before Core they reach reach- reached rear reached ed I there notwithstanding that they th drove ove seventy miles an hour As soon as they could get back they th rendered further assistance By Dy tb time me three ambulances had arrived from om the tho city ono one of ot which started Cor Corthe I Ie the e hospital with Den Ben F Rigg RigS the en- en engineer e en engineer neer v e who ho had been extricated Crom against the firebox in the tho engine wheel he had been pinned Cy tY bya a portion of oC tho t side de of oC the cab which the Impact of ot t tast the blast ast had blown blo against him He lie had h also so been badly burned a with ith steam tb escaped raped from taps aps or pipes in the en e ene engine ne that had been broken He lIe to I dIed ed before beCore reaching the hospital W V F r James Jame the fireman was dazed daz but t partly regained consciousness by ti tino the time no the engine stopped about a quarter quart quarta oC a mile farther Carther on than where bere the ac a alent accident lent happened In spite spile of oC i a broken broke arm m and being only partly conscious he tried to help the engineer In ad a aion addition ion to the broken arm Mr James Jam as 5 Injured on the head He is In tl the hospital spital now with Ith ice packs on his head he het but be beit serious but t his injuries arc are not so that it he will reco recover or The put t the out ot or commission eX eXcept er ert except t on one car severed his h Prinsen shead s head was severed from body dy and hurled some distance away awe to pieces piece and 1 his body e was as as badly blown Jack Holbrook of ot Bountiful who i e as the operating crating an elevator ele in Packing eking plant at the tho time had bad one eye ey put out with flying glass and ind the othe other that the theone believed it is one r injured however er the one eye eyo can be saved The collision occurred d when hen the ti tick truck ck lorded dOl with Ith blasting blasting cap caps tried cd to cross over the 11 I D B R G W Wel Pac Packing plant and anda an anda el s at the Cudahy north bound train hit the tho rear end o oC a almost made mado Its it the truck which had clearance arance The truck lan lanced landed ed In a de- de depression dession de depression tract track on the east side of ot the fifteen feet teet deep Just Just v e when hen the tie Is not certain It I II explosion took look place might suggested that the as I before beCore the train go gothe got gotto gotto taken place have e on the th the truck caused by pumps to loads had bad beet been beetled track ek but as similar lords ds mis- mis mishaps miss mis mishaps road without out any hauled led 0 over er this haps s its Is almost sure I that the to 10 hit the truck and that the tho ex- ex explosion ex explosion don took place at tl i Ufe o e moment of of the truck landed In Inthe Ir Inthe contact tact pr pI after the depression the latter latter is the tho most likely Jy Practically all tie windows In Inthe inthe the packing plant nearby houses cars care parI ed cd by the packing plant p plant ant and In the then train n were broken asell as well ell as windows In residences nearly r q a mile away Amasa Howard Hoard shomo s homo home being being one of oC o the number I James awes Prinsen 56 director and ns- ns as assistant tnt secretary of oC the Western Pow Pow- Powder Powder der Company and George W Y W about it BO fiO bookkeeper of ot the of oC Eureka were ire In Inthe inthe Lumber Company the truck Prinsen It was stated by byone byone his procedure ell edit als al always always one who ho knows ways s got out and walked over o the tho track in vie view to make cake sure that no train e was as as beCore re the driver would venture over the tracks This time It does not seem possIble that he bo could could have havo done this thise suggested been had no og a as There e was lS for Cor a along along and the train could have been see sea long distance It Is understood that practise of oC going with sea made a houses tho the powder to the men mn who ho go after aCter r powder the thenor one None one of oC tho the se seven seven sen n passengers on train nor the conductor or brakeman were seriously Injured Some erne twenty t amplo employee es at Cudahy re no nod d cuts from flying lying glass and wore were the company Dr J JEdward taken t care of by Edward d ard Dav Day annihilated The be truck was almost and 1 Ii loc was damaged con but bly but It did not explode The Tho cars wore were also damage I 1 some There Then as Sars was a streak up through the filed from rom where tho the explosion took place like the tall tail of a comet Rugg the engineer had served the railroad 19 years ani and was s to be retired In April He lie was considered the oldest engineer on the Denver O Ogden den division Ho Is s survived by his wife rife two to sons and five daughters Funeral services sill be held Sunday at p m In the tho ward vard In Ogden t Mr Ir Prinsen Is by a wife and andone andone one ene daughter Funeral s services will III be beheld beheld beheld held today in the Masonic temple In SnIt salt Lake City at 1 I 30 O p m Mr was unmarried and has hasCo no Co sun survivors Ivors In Utah His remains have cave been sent to Ill III where he hc has hag ha |