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Show S Dg4 Q SCORE I Two Carloads of Dynamite Explode at Jackson, Nev., Wrecking the Little Town, Killing Eight Americans Amer-icans and Sixteen Greeks Outright and Maiming Maim-ing as Many More-Force of the Explosion Felt for Many Miles-List of Dead and Injured, (Special to Tho Tribune.) OGDEN, Feb. 19. Death and destruction destruc-tion were spread broadcast in the twinkling twink-ling of an eye by the explosion of a carload car-load of dynamite and black powder at Jackson station, on the Lucln cut-off, about -1 o'clock this afternoon. Twenty-four lives were snuffed out, eight Americans and sixteen Greeks. Many persons were seriously Injured, seven cars were utterly destroyed, thc station building was burned, the' track was torn up for 1000 feet and the telegraph tele-graph line was wrecked. The cause of the disaster was a collision col-lision between an cast-bound train and a construction train which was taking a siding, the concussion sotting off tile explosives with which the car was filled, j AMONG THE KILLED. A majority of those killed were Greek laborers, although many of the victims were English-speaking people. Among j the latter are: Owen Dermody, conductor, from j Beaver Dam, Wis., who lived for one hour and died on the train as he was being taken to Ogden. Thomas W. Burke, roadmastcr, his wife and three children. W. J. Burke, brother of the roadmas- I ter, and general track foreman. William Hallcr, mail messenger, Andrews, An-drews, Ind. The Injured Include: Operator Taylor at Jackson station. Mrs. Taylor. ' -- ;.r''-x-'-t Williams. - - r. i " Lema, epgineor. Sam Courtney, conductor oC.the work train. James Stanton, engineer, three -ribs broken and bad internal injuries. Those who have reached Ogden say that the scene of horror and desolation at the place of the disaster ls simply Indescribable. The ground upon which i the trains were standing was torn up for over 1000 feet, leaving u great excavation exca-vation 30 feet In depth, fragments of the .shattered cars were thrown for Incredible Incredi-ble distances over the surrounding country, coun-try, the station building was reduced to ruins and afterward burst Into flames, the tire completing the destruction which the powder had begun. The wires and polts of the telegraph line were lorn down for several hundred feet, and men had to go to Olney before news of the disaster could be transmitted trans-mitted to Ogden. Relief trains were at once sent out and returned about 11 o'clock tonight, one bringing- eleven injured in-jured and the other two. REPORTS CONFUSING. The catastrophe was at first attributed to lire! It was said that a composite car loaded with tons of dynamite and black powder took lire and burned qulet-I qulet-I ly until the black powder was reached. ' when an explosion occurred, setting off the giant. The great loss of life among the Greeksi was said to be due to the fact that they ruohed to the trains to sravo their belongings. A later and more reasonable version of the affair Is that the work-train was taking the siding to make way for the east-bound water train when the engineer engi-neer of the latter lost control of his machine ma-chine and run into the powder car while It was still on the main line. Sparks from the engine set fire to the car and when the ilro reached thc powder tho explosion came. The most fortunate man on the line was a Greek who wns blown over a l 4- SCENE JACKSON, a small station on tho line of the Southern Pacific 4- In Nevada. -f 4 TIME ! o'clock p. m February 19th. CAUSE Collision between a freight and a construction train, two car- 4- loads of dynamite being part of the latter train's equipment. 4- 4 RESULT Explosion of dynamite, death of twenty-thre persons of 4- 4 whom eight were Americans and tho remainder Grecians. Fifteen persons 4- 4 were injured. 4 DEAD (AMERICA NS.) ' INJURED (AMERICANS.) 4 OWEN DERMODY, conductor. "Jlr oad tdeBraphcr. 4. 4 TIIOS. W. BURKE, roadmaster. !. '"William's. , . 4 MRS. THMOAS BURKE and Lema, engineer of work train. 4- 4 three children. ' Sam-Courtney, conductor of work 4. 4 WILLIAM HALLER, mail mes- jLmes Stanton, engineer freight, 4 snger. will probably die. 4- -T-4-4-444444444444 444444444444444 4 freight train and landed 200 fcot from the ;ene of the explosion, escaping with minor Injuries. News of the disaster caused a tremendous tremen-dous sensation In Ogden. Citizens gathered gath-ered at the Union depot to await the arrival of the trains bearing the wounded. wound-ed. The greatest excitement waa manifested man-ifested by the Greeks who semed almost crazed by the fearful slaughter of their 1 countrymen and relatives. The Burke family, of whom five were killed, are well-known here, having come from West Weber, Weber county. T. J. Burke was on a visit to his brother. Louis Contos, one of the Greeks killed, was a brother of John Contos, the merchant mer-chant of Ogden. He had a wife and three children in Greece. The names of. the other Greeks who were killed could not be learned last night. Three of those Injured were Thrumaf Caralos, Gust Canljake and George Catsamls. Later reports from the Injured had It that two Greeks were sure to die as they were literally cooked and could live but a short time. William Hallcr, the mail messenger who died en route to Ogden, was a victim vic-tim of adverse fate. He wns about to I leave for Andrews, Ind., where his wife and children live, and had already secured se-cured transportation to his home, but postponed his departure because his services were needed. Most of the dead Greeks were saing and Industrious men. They were their own bankers and the money belt on each body contains from ?50 to $300 In paper money and gold. The Injured were removed to the hos- (Contlnuod on pagp 2.) GIANT DEALS PEAT! UN : OWLUCSN CUTOFF (Continued from Pago 1.) pltal as rapidly as they could be taken from the relief trains, and are receiving every possible attention. The bodies of the dead will not be brought In until tomorrow, to-morrow, when a special train supplied with proper materials will be sent out for that purpose. Some of the bodies are said to be so badly scattered that it will be Impossible to reunite them for the purpose of giving them Christian burial. |
