Show A ESCARE hew a utah man escaped from the Newe Re mastle asila wreck phoenix like from the ashes of tho the greatest holocaust that has ever visited the intermountain inter mountain country mr thomas nash nash the well known cattle man accompanied by his devoted wife arrived in moab friday last looking 0 better than his frie friends fias hoped for mr nash wag waa in the recent recant newcastle horror and probably had as a close a call as ever visits a mau man who lives to tell of it A broken arm badly singed hair a scarred countenance auda and a tremulousness in his usually strong voice are the eloquent evidences of his narrow escape and the terrible ordeal to his hia nerves mr nash kash and three others two gentlemen and a lady are the only survivors of the fated coach two providential events combined to extend his career of usefulness ile he hall had been asleep and had jurt jut t been awakened by the conductor who wh 0 supposed he be wished to get off at the next station when the crash came he was wag hurled with terrific force forca a distance of half a car length to the forward end of the car his arru arm being forced through gb the right hand forward window and br broken 0 ken by the impact ile he tried to extricate himself without avail hi arm ann being held as in in a 2 vice by the car which they had telescoped meanwhile the car lie he was in had bad taken fire close to him supposedly from the lamps and lia hia chances were becoming desperate tile the cries of the bounded and the groans of the dying adding indescribable horror to lo the situation the lurid flames were licking his face when the si cond providential event which saved his life occurred it was the explosion of the gas t tink ink under the smoker emo k er this forced the day coach backal back and ld released his arm having retained i his hii presence pree ence of mind ml nd mr baah clambered through and flame over the bebris debris of broken and burning bur ninn beat window jumped u III pee brou through I 1 it and escaped from the charnel car of death he states that his first c supposition on 2 although hough the necessity for of action lid did not give much time dime for conjecture was that it t was a case of hold up and found on escaping that other survivors were detill attributing the accident to dynamite being placed on the track mr M r N nash ash haa h as bee been a at the railroad hospital at salida calida colo for two weeks Ls where he be was joined immediately after the accident by mrs nash he is emphatic in the assertion that he be would not not be tempted to repeat his expert experience ploce for all the gold of the blondke Klond ke or the fabled wealth of the indies ind es eastern utah advocate |