Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-01-28 | Page 1 | Trains Collide near Tucson; Wreck Takes Fire from Burning Oil, and Eight Lives are Reported as Lost

TRAINS COLLIDE NEAR TUCSQN; T7REGK TAKES FIRE FROM BURNING G;tr EIGHT LIVES ARE REPORTED iS LOST TUCSON", A. T., JAN. 28. PASSENGEB TRAINS NOS. 8 AND 0 COLLIDED HEAT3-02T WHEN" E.UN-MnrO E.UN-MnrO AT PTJTX SPEED NEAR VAILS, SEVENTEEN MILE3 EAST OP TUCSON", AT 3 C CLOCK THIS MOBN-DTO. MOBN-DTO. ELEVEN" CAES WERE CONSUMED IN A PEW MINUTES, OIL TANKS SPEE. ,:IN& OIL WHICH PLASHED THROUGH THE WRECK LIKE EXPLODED POWDER, ENGINEER BRUC AND FIREMAN AND ENGINEER WILKLE WERE BURNED TO DEATH AND ANOTHER FIRE 11 ' SERIOUSLY INJURED. IN-JURED. EIGHT BODIES HAVE BEEN" FOUND. -HOW MANY MORE WERE CONSUI1 :D IS NOT KNOWN. . A RELTEP TRAIN WITH MEDICAL AID HAS JUST RETURNED, BRINGING SEVENTEEN INJURED. EIGHT COFFINS HAVE BEEN ORDERED. A NUMBER OF THE INJURED HAVE I JEN SENT TO BEN-, SON. THEY WERE TAKEN TBXm THE WRECK OF NO. 8. J. M. HILTON OF CAMXIDGE, MASS., WAS " (BURNED TO DEATH IN THE SMOKER OF NO. 9. 'AT THIS WRITING NO OTHER' NAMES OF THE . KILLED OR INJURED ARE OBTAINABLE. THE FIRST KNOWN OF THE COLLISION WAS THE COMING COM-ING OF A TOURIST CAR, WHICH BROKE LOOSE FROM NO.- 9 FROM THE SHOCK, AZTD RAN DOWN THE GRADE TO TUCSON, WHERE IT WAS CAPTURED.' THE WOUNDED PASSENGERS GENERALLY ARE BEING CARED FOR. : t , -