| Show r I I I KILLED BY 4 TRAIN I I r r rr P J l. l WM l.M. M. M GROESBECK AND fa F. M r BRADSHAW OF OF I l SALT LAKE VICTIMS S i in Na NaY Machine Going G to Tooele County to Look pat Y a t Mine i e but None Saw Passenger Train Until t f Front ont Wheels of Car Were on the Track Those Who o Remained in Seats Seab Escaped Injury as the K Machine Crossed in Front o of f Engine Safely k f W I ABOUT AUTO ACCIDENT DENT I f Machine ine on wa way to Third mini Term mine mine in Tooele county struck by second section of D D. 8 R. R G G. passenger train No 3 at 7 45 clock this morning at Fourteenth South street crossing Auto going ng west and train and train going north at rate at-rate rate of sixty miles an hour j If KILLED KILLED- William Wllliam Groesbeck mining man who lived at 1004 Blainer Blaine Elaine r rn I j j i rank Frank M. M Bradshaw oil expert and operator who lived oV over r JO loyal cafe THESE ESCAPED ESCAPED- Those o in machine machi who es escaped ped injury i L Alma l na Eldredge real estate and mining man living iving at 1036 th East street owner and driver of automobile W. W WE E. E Goodrich treasurer of the Highland Improvement com corn living i-living Jiving v at Whit Whitehall an 5 SWilliam William X Clark mining expert I living g at West Second c street ne t a HOW IT HAPPENED l Men en in a. a auto t did not see e train until t front w wheels e ls' ls of f th their ir c car careon carre r re re e eon on on the east rail of track Train then about I feet distant 4 Just j ahead head mo moving i nis slowly diS their Mr G Groesbeck and Mr Bradshaw leaped and m momentum ed them in n front of engine p pilot pilat lot striking them before they y tell fell rUto to track automobile clearing learing engine by about bout three inches I Mr t thrown ten feet and Mr Groesbeck k carried earned 1000 o on the pilot of engine both killed instantly Ming Gang their self sel control in a mok molt mo mo- k lt tor o f crisis and leaping from a a. rap rap- f o automobile toward which s' s train was wan thundering at atIf r If g miles an hour and only only feet William Groesbeck ck mining 1 Bla Elaine a av avenue nue this cit city and rM Bradshaw geologist and min min- r W oil oU expert of Los Angeles and andi P i ct city tY tJ l 1 leaped eared to their death at t fock this a morning Ua tho E e who was driving the el bUilt bile and who lives at 1036 a 1 E t street W. W E. E Goodr Goodrich teeter of the Highland Improvement iW living at Whitehall and Wila Wil Wit a X m k ml mining expert living at ati J i est It st Second North str street ot who re- re toed in In the car even when it seemed to escape the be locomotive r. r Unhurt escape pe Was wan providential l and taut ono or more of or those who whop ho hoped aped p ped a had not time tike to leap from the is probably all all all' that saved n 11 from a fate fata similar to that of or ori IT rr i unfortunate companions companion he he- he accident occurred at the Denvor Denver Rio kio Grande Grando crossing at Fourteenth I w th hi tr street t a count county hi highway hway and andr r wore ore Second SN ond West would vo f col brough b. b The road at this i of r regulation highway width k deep d en ditch on either aid side in of the tho party were on onto ay to examine the Third Term Terni Founts county in iu the interest e rt 3 in the cast cat who had he be i WT e interested i iu in n the tho pro property woth W th the tho ng agency of Mr Groos ec ecI I W Was Waa Fatal I fl P. P i o esbeck ck and Alma Mina Eldredge d ner F br aud atad tf driver of the automobile fen friends ends for many man years Mr rr 11 d tc red d the u use c of t his auto auto- ti bile I t I to Mr Groesbeck for the trip th the latter Jiul looked cd forward kc ee er ea In interest for Of a month or v. v Goodrich w was s interested l finan finan- nan 7 Ili the deal leal and aud Wil Wil- lark Accompanied d tho the g mining t expert iii nm tl lay wn was as experienced ant at at i K g of of f the tho trip which was was' probo blo f for r th the tbd 3 accident It Ho to go o at nt 0 j 0 o'clock clock but was I o. o th hJ Mr Ir e at the thc wheel the theand thet t cleft e t tb the city and p pao proceeded to So South th street and then we west west- t- t ao 0 the The Tho second sec r f Denver enver er Rio Grande Grando passenger northward at an oi e ot f i ty milts miles an hour was c n I t the tc h c t Pd Jn where th the ac accident oc deep eop ditch flanks C a the high b ala r i Cattle guards and tiou Oil fences protect tt the rail rail- at a nf either cither i h r side aide of the tho hi high high- h J ii r K a way aThe The Tire railroad grade is three or four feet higher than the grade rade of the hi highway hway A gentle slope lope in in the hi highway high h. h way war overcomes this grade As the automobile approached tho railroad tracks a a. farmer who was driving in ing driving in a bu buggy westward ahead of tho automobile cro crossed fd the tho track Mr Mt EM- EM rodge at the wheel was watching tho the farmers fanner ri rig closely as they ran 11 up behind behind be bo- hind it because the road is is somewhat narrow at nt tho the point of crossin crossing Engineer Saw Too Late I Tho The attention of the tho men in th tho car ear carnas was nas directed toward towar tho the farmer and his hor hor which Mr Eldredge did not wish to frighten The rho h horse and bu buggy gy crossed thA tho track and the automobile sped up the tho short incline Not a member of oC the tho party in in the auto heard the tho swiftly speeding passenger passenger pas pas- train rho engineer of the train tram did not see the automobile until tho front wheels of the machine machino had touched Ute tilt east rail of the track Then tho the engine whistle was blown frantically as tho the giant locomotive crashed onward toward the machine and on only oo foet feet distant The men in the car were paralyzed with horror of what seemed certain death in an nn awful form Mr Eldredge e alone grasped the ne necessity ne- ne cc jh of ot instant action adion Quick as a a. flash hr hr he Raw lIaw th that ll ho lie could not stop his automobile because it was already on the track Ho realized that ha could not nol lump jump With wonderful presence of of- mind he threw the machine machino over into tho the hi high h ht t gear in a frantic effort to shoot to safety safet L Leaped to Dea Death h. h The rho instant of paralysis having ha passed paired Mr Groesbeck and Mr Ir Brad shaw vero seized by bv a mad mid impulse e to save sa themselves The primal laws s o of f nature asserted They tried d to escape in n the tho only way 1 that seemed possible The car a loft hand driver dri was then athwart the track The Tho locomotive o like a maddened animal and th thundering toward them like an au avalanche avalanche ava iya lanche sped aped on seemingly as certain to strike tho the automobile ay as death scorned certain to nil all of the tho men Thc They leaped from the ri right ht side of tho the car Doth Both lumped jumped at virtually tho the same sane instant Neither had harl time to open tho the door doer of the automobile Both to the road lied bed as IS tho the automobile auto luto mobile cleared the track Both were were J tilled killed in instantly Tho rho automobile io lurching under the impact of the added power that had been becu thrown in when the thc machine was thrown into tb the hi high h gear elff leaped to safety p J Throe inches had separated the three men in the car from deaths It was by that narrow margin that th the locomotive mis missed ed tho the automobile rind find the Bodies So quick quickly had the tragedy y occurred that t l tho o three men remaining to in the car CT could coul scarcely realize that bat death had taken two of their companions Mr Eldredge e threw off of the tho power vcr the tho moment nt the automobile had cleared the track and as soon as the momentum was wag overcome o turned tho car cat and ran eastward to the thc track None of tho thoM inthe in know knew I arre the ear nr OAr that I Continued l on page page 12 t 4 4 t. t d m t h I A V p r 1 C s I I I 1 1 f 1 14 f SO t 1 d r. r r I. 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A G J I I TWO LEAP FROM AUTO Continued from page e 1 tho unfortunate men bad had been hit bv the train The They believed that they had rolled roBed to safety beside the track and thought for fora a brief moment th that t possible pos sible injuries from which they thoy would soon recover was tho worst they had suffered But in a moment they learned tho dreadful truth Mangled and bleeding beside the track ten feet from the point where ho had struck when h he leaped from the automobile lav the tho mangled body of rank Frank M Bradshaw Carried Thousand Feet A thousand feet to the north tho train was stopped From tho tho pilot of the engine the tr tram n crow crow removed the tho terribly terribly ter ter- shattered body of f William Groes- Groes bock ck which had beep dra dragged ged a fifth of a milo mile Members of f the train crew took the broken bod body of of the unfortunate mining man from its ts position and placing it iton iton on a stretcher carried carriea it into a I vate yate car on tr the e train The train was then backed down to the crossing and tho bod body of Mr Brad shaw was placed b beside sido that o of his erstwhile erst while companion in the tho luxurious car After seeing that the the other members of the party arty were not in need of aid the tram continued its journey into th the city bearin bearing its gruesome The other me members of the tho party climbed into their automobile and rid after noti notifying yin the tho members or 01 th their iJ respective families by telephone of t their safety r turned returned to the city citro Brought to City A call was wag sent to police headquarters the train carrin carrying the bodies of tho unfortunate men was met at ut Fourth West and Second South streets by the bi big police patrol carrying Chauffeur George Goro Moore and Patrolmen Patrolmen Willie and Pierce Bradshaws Bradshaw's boJ was placed in the tho bottom of the automobile and Groesbeck's bod was placed on the stretcher stetcher of the Dac machine ine and t they ey were rushed t to tho emer emergency ency hospital at olce police headquarters Dr H. H I. I B. B assist assistant mt city phy physician phy physician was at tho hospital havin having just finished another i case caso and met the machine machine ma ma- chine at tho door Joor of the hospital He examined the men While hie tho they were still sti in the machine machi 0 and ordered them taken to tb the undertakers undertaker's s The bodies bodie were I taken to the S D. D Evans Eans undertaking establishment Jt was some somo time before tho identity of tho men men could bo be established Groesbeck Groes Groes- beck was identified by means of papers which he had in h his pockets but it Jt was not f for r twenty minutes that tho identity of Bradshaw was established Ho had no papers bearing his ame name bit but was finally reco recognized by Mounted Patrol Patrolman Patrolman man Byron Crosby Crosby |
