Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-07-08 | Page 3 | Survivors Tell Wreck Horrors

SURVIVORS TELL Ull HORRORS Fire Adds to Terrors of off fi k f r Smash Which Cost Liv Livis Livi's s of 24 r r BUENOS A AIRES RES Argentina July 8 AP AP Survivors s o of ot yesterdays yesterday's v wreck at In the v Argentine province of Mendoza In Ini i f a number of cadets of ot the Military academy were pilled l led or Injured say that the Rollers boners of ot the locomotives exploded from the Impact and that fire broke roke Nut out ut Immediately b burning rune nine rie cars cars O On arriving 81 Mendoza at-Mendoza the capital cap cap- hal ital of ot the province the survivors cap I told of the horrors that followed the collision with a regular train of ot the the special train on oi which Chilean cadets were traveling t to Buenos Buens Aires Ninth for tor the of ot July July- Independence celebration PASSENGERS PASSENGERS ASLEEP ASLEE fI- fI Th The collision occurred at 4 o'clock In i the morning morning and the fact that nearly everyone was sleeping made the co confusion even greater Co Coordinated Co- Co efforts for tor the relief of the vIctims vIctims' t aid ld not begin until an hour and a a. half halt after ater the disaster Survivors that s several veral of ot the wounded cad cadets ts asked to be shot to tobe tobe be spared further suffering that others covered their faces with their hands hand hands either either to protect them from the flames or to blot out the sight pf the burning cars and the misery of t fellow passengers Dispatches from Mendoza de describe describe describe de- de scribe moving scenes among the public gathered at the station when the special train arrived from th the scene of ot the wreck with dead and Injured Wreaths of ot floWers were placed on the temporary coffins The Pacific Railway company coriany on whose lines Unes the wreck occurred says says that five of ol the ChU Chilean an cadets and nineteen trainmen were killed ten persons were s seriously Injured and hand twenty nine slightly Injured ed The company states state's the f collision was due to fog tog which preVented prevented pre- pre Vented the engin engineer er of ot the cadet train rain froni from seeing the danger nals Th The Argentine government instituted an in Investigation fix responsibility for the disaster EXPRESSES CONDOLENCE Upon learning of the the- death a and d' d Injury of Ot f the cadets President de I Alvear AIvear of Argentina paid a personal V visit to the Chilean embassy to I present his hit condolences He also alsol I sent a message of sy sympathy pathy to the president of ot Chile The tragedy has affected the preparations for the celebration Of the one hundred and eleventh anniversary anniversary anniversary an an- of ot the independence of Argentina set for tomorrow and the unveiling of ot a monument next Friday to the memory of ot Bartolome Mitre Argentine statesman who led the movement for Independence