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Show MINIS' '7T Ww W'-'lJMfiM PlWP WI Wf E4SXMSSEEER TRAIN ITS MIGHT . ' NEAR GRANGER; NINE MOWN KILLED; ; BOTH TRAINS RUNNING AT HIGH SPEED I ---i m Operator Said to Have Copied the Orders Wrong; Names of Passengers Killed Not Yet Reported. r : , BT7IXETIN. OGDEN, Utah, JJor. 12. 'Westbo und Union Pacific passenger train No. 9 and an eastbound freight collided head-on a few miles east of Granger, tayo., at 4 a. ro. i a Both trains were going at a high rate of speed and were derailed, go-Uig go-Uig over an embankment ten feet high, and the mail and baggage cars were telescoped. Both engineers and one fireman, names unknown, Freight Conductor JLowham of Evanston, Wyo., Mail Clerk Sherman of Cheyenne, a car repairer re-pairer and two passengers, names unknown, are known to have been killed. ' : A Wrecker was sent out from Ogden at 9:30 a. mi BULLETIN. CHEYENNE, Wye, Nov. 12. It is reported here that five passengers j (names unknown) were killed in the collision near Granger. Engineers Hurray and Nichols and Hail Clerk Sherman were killed, and Mail Clerk Nolan fatally injured. (and the Pullman passengers escaped in-Jury. in-Jury. The track was blocked for several sev-eral hours. Union Pacific passenger train No. 8, from Chicago, westbound, collided with an eastbound freight train Just east of Granger, Wyo., at midnight Friday night, killing nine persons and badly injuring several others. . No. 3 was running about two hours late, and on special orders. The train orders were repeated to an operator, who Is said to have copied them wrong. The engine and train crews proceeded on the orders received and met the freight Just out of Granger. Running at High Speed. .Both trains were running at a high rate of speed and the engines met with terrific force, being driven together and tangled in an almost inextricable mass of splintered steel and iron. The mail and baggage car and smoker on No. 3 were derailed and the mail cars badly splintered. Both Engineers Killed. The engineers of both trains and the fireman of .the passenger were killed. Two passengers who were riding in the smoker were buried in the wreckage, a mail clerk, the conductor of the passenger., pas-senger., who was In the smoker making up bl-accounts, a brakeman and a car lusp'Vr were all buried under the reckgc and killed. Pullman Stays on Track. - A number of passengers in the chair ou were badly shaken up and bruised, nut the Pullmans on the rear of the train were not derailed and the shock to them was comparatively light. T narr.es of those killed were not received by the local officers of the ' I muii .Pacific Saturday morning and could not be learned. SIX KNOWN DEAD; TWO STILL MISSING. ANOTHER ACCOUNT (Associated Press.) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Nov. 12. Bix. persons are known to be dead, two re missing and probably under the K-reckage, and five were injured, two teriously. in a head-on collision shortly Ifter midnight between Union Paclfla Westbound passenger train No. 3 and an astbound extra freight train one and bne-half miles west of Azusa, Wyo. The dead: Engineer WilliaraJMurray. Engineer B. S. Eckles. Mail Clerk Sherman. Car Inspector Sam Efferson. Two passengers, in day coach, names nknown. The head brakeman and fireman on jhe freight train are missing and are supposed to .-be under the wreckage. The baggageman and mall clerk were taken from the wreck badly Injured. . Three other passengers in the day coach rere also injured, but not seriously. The track between Granger and Green River, Wyo., is part of the Union Pa-tiflc, Pa-tiflc, but Is operated by the Oregon (hort Line. Tbe wreck was the result If a "bulled" train order by the nlht elegraph operator at Granger. The reight train was given thirty minutes 0 make Azusa and meet the westbound (assenger. The order delivered the freiKbt crew read "fifty minutes" and a nil' and a half out of Azusa the trains kntogether at great speed. Both en-Bnes en-Bnes were demolished, the mail and iaggaga,' cars telescoped and the day pach badly damaged, going Into the Itch. The Pullmans did not leave the track i (r I |