Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-16 | Page 1 | "Double-Header" Jumps into Fraser

i I HEADER DOUBLE I 1 JUr PS INTO FRASER Y VANCOUVER B. B C. C Jan 16 A A delayed de do- I cle-I Jay Jay-ed westbound Canadian Pacific 1 passenger passenger pas pas- en cr train hauled b by two locomotives struck truck a just after noon today today to to- I day while in Fraser canyon miles east of here and leaped into Fraser river Tho The engineers T. T Foster and A A. A Kin Kin- caden eaden were cre the only persons killed while three thirty-three were injured A number of these were seriously hurt The two firemen jumped and fell feU I safely safety into a snowbank Tho rho locomotives an and four cars fell i eighty feet into the river 1 ENGINES DRAGGED TRAIN DOWN HIGH EMBANKMENT I Y VANCOUVER B. B C. C Tan Jan 16 A A 1 special train containing the tho bodies of i the thc two engineers and find tho the injured of or yesterdays yesterday's wreck on the thc Canadian Pa- Pa ifie near miles cast east of Vancouver reached this city early this thi mornin morning The injured wore were conveyed to hospitals There were twenty in all but outside of one ono or two cases of broken ribs their injuries consisted of cuts and bruises with no bones broken Remarkable good fortune favored the people who were carried over o the hill bill in inthe in inthe the tho smashed cars Six cars ears went down the embankment besides the two en en- gines The rho mail and rind express cars are arc in m the river A 11 i hundred yards ranIs from the track Tho rho other cars lie He in the intervening space When t the hc en engines ines went over the car couplings held dra dragging in tho the cars over Tho The mail clerks unharmed had had- to crawl out from the wreck of th their ir cars Engineer Wa r. r found soon lIoon after the accident had every COf bone in his bod body broken En Engineer Foster was scalded to death after being nipped between the engine and the ten tender er The Tho slide was on only four tour feet deep It contained con eon tamed rock and when tho the en engine me struck it tho the front trucks mounted the ice ico and debris and thus the tho engine cugine went Trent over ocr tho the bank