Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-21 | Page 4 | Seventeen of the Soldiers Killed

SEVERE! Of THE SOLDIERS KILLED First Reports Concerning the Wreck of Troop Train Were Exaggerated. MOBILE. Ala., Oct. 20. Unless others of the ninety soldiers In local hospitals die of Injuries suffered In the wreck of the Mobile & Ohio troop train near State Line, Miss., Sunday afternoon, tho list of dead will stand at seventeen, according to the railroad undertakers' report tonight. to-night. OfllclalR of the railroad company say that there aro no other bodies In the wreckage. Physicians do not believe there will bo more than one death among the Injured. . The most seriously hurt Is Private Ostrandor of the 170th company. Tho revised list of dead follows. Corporals A. T. KInvlnsky. 170th company: com-pany: Joseph Johnston, Eighth regiment band; Frank Chchvfkle, 170th; Frit;: Kohler, 170th; Privates Earnest Paquotte, 170lh; Joe beben. 170th; W. H. Brln. 170th; G. C. Gruelko. 170th; E. W. Panck, 170tlr. Virgil Romson, Thirty-ninth: Jo-Iseph Jo-Iseph Provanoc, 170th; II. Bishop, 170th; G. C. Burloson. 170th; Claude Teel. 170th; V. Van Stobbens. 170th; G. W. Goode3, 170th; M. Acres. 170th. President W. W. Flnley of the Mobile & Ohio believes tho front wheels of the engine en-gine tender loft the track beforo reaching the point where the wreck occurred. Ills stiitement, Issued tonight, says: "These wheels broke practically every tie In the center of the trestle. When tho ties were cut the track spread, resulting re-sulting in tho train toppling over and carrying the trestle with It. Careful examination ex-amination docs not Indicate that tho track was In any way defective prior to tho accident. "The greater number of deaths occurred oc-curred among men riding in the baggage car, due to the shifting of baggage." continued Mr. Flnley. "Other deuths wero principally among those In the renr of the second coach, which was telescoped for about fifteen feet whon the cars went over tho trestle. Thoro wero no serious Injuries to those occupying the last coach." The tender toppled over with the rest of the train, but the englno remained upon the rulls.