Show TWENTY FOUR LIVES LOST BY POWDER EXPLOSION terrible accident on lucan cutoff cut off in which a station Is wiped butof existence As the result of the explosion of 0 two iari oads ot of powder jackson station atlon Bt a 1 siding biding on the ogden eucla cutoff cut off work eighty nine miles west ot of osden ogdon was wiped from the face of the earth and at least twenty four lives lost while halt half that number were iri maimed almod As near dear as can bo be learned a supply train going from ogden west was heading in at jackson and was waa partly in on the siding A water train ot of seven ears cars cam coming ing east from lucin ran into the others catching a car ot of black powder right on the frog this car caught fire and exploded touching olt off a carload of 0 giant powder only a few seconds passed atler after the col giblon until the explosion occurred rending pending the earth and wrecking the buildings the depot a five room frame structure was utterly demolished car wheels engine rods and scraps of boller boiler plato plate were hurled burled through sli tho the walls and roof of the structure and the place reduced to kindling wood immediately afterwards the place took fire cars buildings and everything inflammable burning to the ground of the alvo engines which were at the siding when the wreck occurred hardly a fragment was left largo large enough to indicate what had been its use contusion confusion reigned tor for a while but finally tho the uninjured rushed to the rescue A train was made up with the tha locomotive from tho the gravel pit nt at hogop hogup as the motive power and in a short time those seriously injured were in cabooses cabo oses on oil the way to ogdon over the trestle tho the burke family was annihilated a father and mother his brother and three children these were T W durke burke his son james a aged 90 6 a little daughter aged 4 and a baby boy these with their mother wore were killed almost instantly W J burke general foreman for the iba company happened to be visiting his brother and he be too was killed there were a large number ol of greek laborers on one of the trains sixteen being killed and a number seriously injured where the explosion occurred there was a liole bole blown into the ground large enough to bury a train five hundred yards of track were displaced and three miles ot of telegraph poles blown down the dead were scattered for hundreds ot of feet in all directions and a majority of the vacti victims ras had their clothes blown off one greek was found headless and the children of section foreman burke h had of their arms and legs torn oil air A laborer was pulled out of 0 the burning debris his lower limbs on fire the anju injured rett were covered with blood and one heroic little woman her faco scarred with deep deal rashes gashes that poured out a stream of 0 blood unmindful of her own injuries helped gather up tip the dead and dying later advice advises state that of forty six persons at jacksons point when the collision occurred and the carload of dynamite exploded only nine escaped without wounds and five of the fortunate were members of a a freight crew pulling into the station about a quarter os of a mhp away |