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Show THIRTY-TWO HURT IN HEM CRASH Troop Train Collides With Salt Lake-Price Local Passenger Pas-senger at Maxwell. Sixteen soldiers, fourteen other passengers passen-gers and two railroad employees suffered minor injuries when a westbound troop train running as second section of No. 5, and carrying soldiers for Kort Douglas, collided head-on with eastbound passenger passen-ger train Ko. IS, Salt I.alve-rrice local, at Maxwell, a station between Price and Helper, on the Denver & Rio Grande railroad, rail-road, at 1:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon. John Melgard of Clear Creek tmfrered two broken ribs and was ttie most seriously seri-ously injured, according to rcporls received re-ceived at the local offices' of the Denver & Rio Grande. Other Injuries were in the nature of bruises and lacerations. First aid treatment to the injured was given by Dr. F. F. Fish of Trice and Dr. A. Slopansky of Helper. The injured passengers on second No. 5 were brought to Salt I.ake and those on No. IS were left at Price. The pilots on both engines were demolished de-molished and a draw-bar on one coach was crushed, but neither engines nor coaches were derailed. Temporary repairs re-pairs were made to the coach, and the trains proceeded after a deln y of about one hour And fifteen minutes and were furnished with fresh engines at Helper. Tho train and crew of No. IS returned to Salt Dake as No. 17, arriving here at 8:30 last night, and second No. ij arrived about one hour later. Although no investigation lias been held as yet, it was reported to officials of the Denver Rio Grande tha t t lie collision col-lision was due to a misunderstanding of orders. The crew on train No. IS saw second No. S approaching as t hey pulled into Maxwell and stopped, and second No. n plowed down to a speed of about five miles an hour before tlte collision or- curreu. irain io. i was in cnutge. oi Conductor I C. Win slow and Knijinepr Slier met, and perond No. r. was in rharoe of Conductor V. J. Young and Kngineer Carpenter. Several of the injured passengers on No. 1 8 were on the wav to I'rict1 in response re-sponse to the draft cah. Second No. f, carried about 175 recruits from Fort Do-gan. Do-gan. Colorado, on the way to Fort Douglas. Doug-las. Superintendent -K. Ten Kyck of the Greenriver division of tho Denver & Rio Grande and II. M. Gushing, traveling passenger agent, were on the troop train and were severely shaken, but otherwise other-wise were uninjured. Tiiose reported as injured on pecond No. 5 were Frederick Anderson, c;r,;en Willis, Wil-lis, Henry Kuhns, Fncarsion Muniz. Thomas Tat em. Ha neb D. Holers, Ft ;i nit N. I Mnncl. Robert Webster. John Van Street. Clyde- riuwh'nd, Dmiis K. Gilbert.. Ijemer K. Cash. li ster C. I,yes, Arthur , Raw, .Ta ines Krablli, J;i rues Welch ring. I J. I., niiickbnrn, nil of whom exrept j Hlaekburn are soldiers. Hliwbburn is a Denver ft In Grande br; kema n. The injured on -train No. 1. arr-ord-Inir to reports to Hlo Gr;i nde nfjj rials, are: Hertram Riuourlrouen, H. H. Jtnle of T'rb-e: John Melirnrd. C-on;e K Ko-,rolakl. Ko-,rolakl. ' Kmaii"ii! M. St;inii;ikis. Clear CreP'k : Ton v Hoi ion t i k, W ! n t err rt it : Mrs. Thomas Milis, Mrs. Harrv liuminT, Mrs. Thomas Harris. ' ': s! b -.-it i , ; Marv laeolefta. Mrs. Genn-e M. Mi-G:i:tn. Mrs John Gufl. Het.;-r; ri. F. Ferrnon. Si. .h.e; T. I.. Wllenehecq. 137 South Seventh Kast m reft. Salt It e, a nd lira lu-ina u J M, Gwyon of Salt I-pke. |