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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, AUGUST 1, 1920. SUNDAY-MORNI- NG Scenes of Oregon Short Line Wreck at Zenda, Ida. !r f I rt Engine and Eight Coaches Leave Track Forty-Ev- e Miles South of Pocatello. Three-Roo- " Left top Second engine partly turned over ; right, trucks of Pullman and diner ripped from under Just a 'moderately furnished apartment that you and she will both r were asleep at the time, but the by Engineer "'hompeon of the second engine putting on all brake force .and Engineer Brennan of tha first engine throwing on full speed ahead awakened them and. they hurriedly began to dress. Claim Adjuster Morse had a compartment near Claim Adjuster R. H. Smith, also an occupant of the train, and when the cars began to buckle he awakened and yelled to everybody to hurry up and dress In a 'few minutes Mr. Morse waa Hla first thought I attired and outside. , was aid for the Injured. and Mr. Morse passengers Uninjured started out to hunt for a farmhouse from which they could telephone for medical assistance. This was found a short distance from the scene of the wreck and a hurry-u- p call, waa sent to Pocatello and Downey for nurses and wrecking crews. The injured passengers were fortunate, however, as Dr. H. H. Marshall, railroad surgeon, of Topeka, Kan , waa on board and. assisted by Miss Blanche Dean, nurse from Cody, Wyo., administered aid to the most seriously hurt until doctors arrived from other points. J Senger r Jar caused ?". 's W-- v 1, i lt.J Z ' A Four-Roo- m TO $5000 ON SMALL Outfits "Cottage (Continued from Pago One.) ACCOUNTS OPENED FROM $5.00 WEEKLY OE MONTHLY PAYMENTS Small accounts especially invited On $ 35.00 Purchase $1 25 a Week 75 00 Purchase On 2 00 a Week On ,100.00 Purchase 2 60 a Week On 200 00 Purchase 3.00 a Weak On 800 00 Purchase 4 00 a Week On 400.00 Purchase 5.00 a Week On 500.00 Purchase 6 25 a Week On 750.00 Purchase 7.50 a Weak On 1000.00 Purchase 10 00 a Week No Interest Added - ' m love. The furnishings are neat, attractive, up-tdale, and make just the kind of a little home you want. Our price during the great August sale for this Cottage QJfQC Home' Outfit 1. .. Easy Terms 25.00 Weekly o M "Bungalow Outfits Probably the happiest moment of vour life will be wnen you take her to one of Salt Lake a classy bunga--. lows. If you'll ynt this outfit" tu it you" will have a 'home that vo u 'll be proud to call vour own. The outfit includes up furnishings for living room, bedroom, comdining room and kitchen. This plete outfit, right reSdv- - for use, luring this great sale will be onlv. IpUtSliivJ Easy Terms $6.25 Weekly to-da- I An Extraordinary Special August Sale of Living Room Furniture car. 3-Pi- ece Below , left, chair car . partly buried : Relief Train Leaves. Mr. Morses call was received In Pocatello a short time after tha wreck and a 1 a special, headed by Dr. Roberta. Oregon Short Line surgeon, who took with him - 5 ' ysix nurses from the Pocatello General f hospital and from the Short LineT Emergency hoepital, left .this city at 20 and arrived at Zenda at i 10. In the meanis time, doctors had arrived from Weston, Preston and Downey, and the needs of the Injured were well taken care of. shown The Injured were brought to Pocatello this afternoon and placed in the General hospital. Eleven received injuries sufficiently severe to confine them to the hoepital for some time, while the other five received Injuries which only required suron dressing, and they were released. - gical Mr. Morse stated this afternoon that its side. none of the railroad officials was quite certain as to ths cause of the accident, lie said. "The train waa moving at such a speed Right, that It traveled its entire length after tha , ebra had left the track, the place of the i first derailment being a short distance behind the point where Superintendent Msnsons private car finally stopped. A. .. of? 4 Prom all appearances tha cars would hava remained upright had not the derailed r vq - wheel hit the frog of the west switch on eomtn into Zenda, i; "This was probably what caused the care to topple over. The only thing that l aavtd tha smashup from being complete ' and resulting in many deaths was ths v feet that tha entire train was made of .'1 , Steel ears. Even as it waa, the steel waa r ripped and torn as though It were paper Too much praise cannot be given to Miss i Blanche Dean, the heroic young nurse , from Cody, Wyo., who climbed In and around the wreckage and did wonderful Vvf. , work in helping the Injured. The work a'V Of , the doctors on tha scena was especially commendable." , Although Conductor Korner of Salt UM Lake, In charge of the train, suffered a - severe to hla left shoulder Injury and dislocated collar bone, he rehurt worse than I am. Go to them town. As soon as the cars, which were piled fused to have medioal attention until all are first. None of the Injuries will be fatal, but croeewiee on the track, were removed of the passengers had been treated sayAfter this statement. win Conductor some victims of be making con the waa resumed, aa the rails had not traffic probably ing. "There are lots of people here who Korner went over to a fence and laid fined to the been seriously damaged. hospital for several daya. ' Men from McCamtnon. Pocatello and Downey and a wrecking crew from Downey we. e rushed to the scene first and in a short time .had tha debris cleared t from the track. , Traveling as a passenger on No. 32 was Willard Maasev, general agent for the Union Pacific svstem. and hla daughter, Ruth, of Boston, Mass., but they were fortunate In being In one of the cars , which remained on the track. The complete railroad report, giving what the railroad considers the cause and the extent of the damage, wlU not be issued before Monday, according to ths local officials. after leavings iV ee. track the smoker at 4 the right, turned Pullman car tilted end. J , , ki t,l -- . SougeBrdthers BUSINESS CAR 4 v - The Business Car can be relied upon, always to haul its full capacity at a very low" " cos. This element of certainty all the, year around is one of its strongest appeals "to business men. - 1 Third Z&st St. jtiiiriniiTfBTlnrTO nimri, Six of the Injured persons from tiis wreck brought to Salt Lake at 10 oclock last night and were taken to their homes or the L. D. S. hospital from ths Oregon Short Line depot. None of them were seriously hurt Among the injured was George Korner, conductor of the train, who sustained A dislocated cojlar bone, a bruised left arm and bruises on the right foot. J. H. Sundstrom, mail clerk, was knocked unconscious when the wreck occurred, and was taken In a stretcher from the mall car to the Pullman on train No. 42. He was removed to his home at 22 Jeremy street. He regained consciousness half an nour after the accident. His Inleft badly wienched juries include shoulder and Injuries to hla head which ; pain him considerably. w-- re PASSENGERS GIVE ACCOUNT OF WRECK reaching Salt Lake late last brought mute evidence of .the -- Passengers : . CO. Wasatch 638. hTHTH SIX OF INJURED BROUGHT TO CITY 1 THE BOTTERILL AUTOMOBILE 23-4- Roomy, Very Comfortable evening Oregon Short Line wreck which occurred yesterday morning four miles bel6w Downey, Idaho. Many of them carried suitcases which had been crushed and ripped. Tom handbags Insisted- on revealing their contents and an odd array of baggage was to be seen in some of the hotel lobhlea Many who were on the train at the time of the wreck were still wondering how they had ' escaped , and were busily engaged In giving their version of the smashup W, H. Bowers of Kansas City, a Pullman passenger, gave a graphic description of the scene aa he saw It a few moments sfter the occurrence. There were three distinct shocks, 1 was said Mr. Bower awake at the 1 paid little attention to the first time shock. When the second came- - I knew that something serious had happened, and when the third Jolt came I knew that there was a smash. T dressed 'and hurried out. The first thing I saw was a pile of coaches at the train. of the The smoker had been front thrown twenty feet from the track and lay on Its back. A rail had been twisted until it had penetrated a window ot the smoker. The engine waa a mass of twisted steel and Iron a mere pile of junk. Imbedded under It were the trucks of the tender which had been attached to the front engine. The latter had gone a quar. ter of a mile beyond the scene before stopping and the tender stood "The baggage car, tha mall coach, the chair car and a diner lty on their aides, and Pullman porters were breaking eut windows In an effort to rescue passengers within. I expected to find many dead. Aa fast as the injured were released they were carried into an adjacent field, and a doctor who was on the train administered first aid. We dug the conductor and a brakeman out of tha smoker; They had been pinned under the seats, which had been turned and twisted into a splintered heep. "I helped a wman through the window of the chair car. A small child clung to her, and except for a few bruises neither was Injured, though the car had turned over and every seat had been torn loose. For many yards the track had been tom up and rails were twisted Into all sorts of shape I have been In wrecks when many were killed, but never have I teen one In which the coaches were thrown so far and so badly battered. There were many peculiar phases about the wreck, and that the death list la not a long one la Uttla short of mlracu-lo- u , - t . . t . ; greatest value ever offered. i Tbie overetuffed suite will make your living room a genuine pleasure. It Is built, first of all, for comfort; yet the design is very attractive, and all three pieces are covered with a combination of beautifully figured wool velour ' . and single tone velour front. . . , Term $30.00 Cash, $15.00 a Month. Without a doubt this la 'Jie - August Sale of Fine Fiber Porch Swings, Beautiful Baronial Brown Finish s rs rs An Overstuffed Suite That Is Large and Terms , $5.00 Cash, $5.00 a Month hard- Thh seat, back and arms of the swing are substantially made and are fiber woven over a reinforced wood frame. "chain connections consist of four irons rigidly attached to bottom of swing. Four strong eight-foo- t abo" chains, complete with hooks, are included. Width of seat, 60 inches depth of seat, 2Q inches; height of pack seat, 26 inches; total length, 64 inches. kiln-drie- d 4 This Lovely Oriental or Chair at Special.Price Sea-gra- " ' Terms . $2.00 Cash, $2.00 Fiber Rocker ss a Month f 1 The Arm Chair or Rocker -- $ suite is of "this .beautifully-design- ed selected oriental of built specially fiber natural shades on frames' of toughest hardwood, well braced, tight and firm. You will find the side arms so restful, and the splendidly made,' reto the silient seats give comfortably relaxation that perfect body, inducing without which there can be no rest. The rocker stands 40 inches high from the scat up. The seat measures 19x19 Measurements of armchair are inches. the same. sea-gra- ss OUTING LUNCH TABLE TWO IN ONE Monday Special The Red-Monday n E Folding Broiler Special $4.85 WNif. - , Light, strong. Occupies small spaea wheh not in ure. You no doubt enjoy a lunch m the shade of a friendly tree WHAT IT IS while on an auto trip into the country, but you know how Ked-stove The ' inconvenient' it is to eat from a cloth spread on the is a combination ground things have the habit of tipping over and getting stove . of mussyr ' andfolding Wouldnt you appreciate having a table? broiler, but without the dis-- a With our OUTING d v a n tages of either. LyNCH TABLE Bed-Stove Set Up tewed away- in a more stove will do. do all than will and It folding a in car packyour At the same time it is simpler, more easily set up age 4 Inches bv 6 more and folded, much compact, lighter in weght, ana. inches by 25 inches t will take any length fuel i which is easily It is far superior to an ordinary wire broiler because made into a Beat, it controls the heat, it sets up anywhere on ground, eompleta table 2 ft. wide by 4 ft. long, 13 In. high, that will rocks or gravel, it is cool to work at, it is safa ia tha accommodate six or eight people, or a table 2 feet square, woods, and it is clean to earry when folded. 25 inchee high, that will accommodate four people, you When set up the su of the stove is 10 by IS inches. will be able to avoid all the discomforts of using ground It is amply large enough to cook for a dozen people for a table. if desired. " E |