Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-19 | Page 1 | Scene of Rail Tragedy Again Sun-Dry Creek

Of HAil TRAGEDY A AGAIN AIN SUN 9 Bo Bodies Recovered F From om Wreckage of Colorado Express 11 i i C 11 Ep BELIEVED DEAD I IS S Submerged p Pullman tima Car Cir Half Full of pf Sand STRATTON Coio Cole Colo J July ly 19 United Sand Pre Press Sand Cr Creak 1 today is s once more mo e a dry w 1 a a sun sunbaked un unbaked baked aye avenue for a c cloudbursts cloudburst's ic i early yest yesterday rd y re reached he I out tit to imperil vacation bound passengers passengers' nger on the R Rock ck- ck Is Island and J Pacific's Pacifica crack crack Colorado Colorado Express Early today nine bodies' bodies had been rec recovered vered from the grotesque wreckage of ot a 3 a. a twelve-car twelve train which left the rails when the sev foot enty-foot t bridge across across' Sand c creek eek collapsed ps d under the pressure pressur of ot th the torrent of ot water water but Coroner O O. Kinney said he had the names names of of ot eleven vI victims of ot on of ot the most tragic of ot of Colorados Colorado's rail raU accidents The wreck occurred at t 4 a a. J m ni w th the p passengers passengers' u seng rs' rs were ere l na o ch tr r e. e on thiB bridge g when shen hen the ls spread a j andT b below bOlow low disappearing from sight B But t one one occupant of ot the car E. E J J. Perry of New Be Bedford rd Mass who I was VS v s iw awake ake ke sc ped H Hp fought his way yay th through Ugh a a window w. w C caught a passing timber and gained the shore snore The rii next ca car I into to tIe the e estre stream ni iri Heroic work on work on the part Continued on page i'S iS 8 S RAIL TRAGEDY GEDY AGAIN G IN SUNDRY SUN CREEK Continued d from page I. I 1 ot of sevel several al passengers I In this this coach coach- enl additional onal loss oC I f life as 6 the sleeping tourists W re Hurled forward by the force forc of the Impact t. t Men hien women wamen women and children stunned a and d drowning were dragged dragged- cd out window through through y to safety safely I f BELIEVED DEAD KInney K w who 1 plans to Hold nold an inquest today toda said he believed be t he ie t. t following 1 persons persons' lost Jost their Uv lives s' s Miss Miss' Ma Mary McDonald West p Palm lm Beach Fla G G.- G. GF F F. Garlic Carlle New York Mrs G. G F P Carlie CallIe New Now York City Miss Julia Miss Carlie New York City Mrs Ben Lewis Memphis Tenn Henry Lewis Memphis l Tenn Tem Mrs Jennie Jennio Foltz Memphis Brooks dine Cline negro o porter Unidentified negro porter Only nine oodles bodies had been recovered recovered reco er ered d e early rb today O however and search of th the wreckage was as being continued The Tho submerged Pull Pull- coach was a halt hal dull Sull of ot sand sand rocks and nd debris arid and progress ss was vas slow slot d de e to to the fa fact t that wrecking apparatus apparatus' rip could not come come cl close se to either side of oC th the wreck be of the t torn rn up condition n ot of th the tho tracks AIDED RE RESCUE JE J.E. Morris Gest famous New Y York rk theatrical ai producer was as a a. geron gei G-e the train and was as one one one-of the first to report disaster disaster- and narrate nar nar- rate the details He was not In In- In Jurd V. R Ri Eagle Neb Neba a a a. banker binker banker Jas was m motoring t along aJon the road that Jia t I railroad track track track-at at the moment of the the crash He removed his clothing dived Into tho tho turbulent stream and with oth- oth ers ers broke P Pullman llma a and aYd d helped dr drowning pa li n ers