Show DEATHS HARVEST ARnST HARVESTON ON L I CUT T ff Frightful Accident Sta Station tion on Oti S P in Western Utah TWENTYSIX PERSONS KILLED Fatality Caused by Tremendous lou slon of Two Cars of Dynamite on onA onA A Freight Train HIT BY A CONSTRUCTION TRAIN Tragedy One of the Worst In This Sec Excitement at Ogden howe Hone of Some Sonic of or the Victims I I LL t INQUEST AT JACKSON J THIS AFTERNOON Special to tho NOW News 4 Ogden Og en Feb l eb o he o latest re TO roo TOi c i ports porte Indicate persons were wart r killed In the tho explosion at Jack Jackson Jac Jacon r son aon on on tho the Southern Pacific f Sheriff Josephson County Count Atty itt Att J peery the tho coroner and a B Jury all nil of ot county let lef for tor the seen scene at lIt O 0 5 this thiM morning on n a nT at T t special train It Is s a 0 four tour hours houra T e ride and the Inquest cannot pos possibly po 4 T sibly end before night time timeA I A Neither will tho the bodies of at the 4 1 dead be bo brought to Ogden before tonight r IJ 1 Further details of ot tho the accident 4 j f are Impossible at al this hour ow owing owIng owL L ing l to the extreme reticence of at att the tho railroad officials Not only t do they refuse rofus alt nil Information Int I concerning the tho tragic event but newspapermen and nit nil others other ex cx except except officers of at tho the law are I barred from passage over the tM cutoff to Jackson Jackion Tho rho wire being down at al makes 1 It fUll moro more difficult to 0 get 0 I It fresh t details detail of at tho the disaster ster No at attempt attempt tempt hns hn yet yot been to fix t the tho blame In view of ot the tho men menI x I gerness gernes of at Information McCart the Greek Interpreter t i secured secure a n pass pas this morning and an f went Vent to Jackson to look out for tor forthe fori i the Interests of at his hili ht countrymen I i 16 1 of whom were killed In the theof 1 of 1 slaughter daughter 0 r There Thoro has been no additional V death de th today to lay In Ogden Tho The In Injured t 1 1 arc ao doing ns us well vell ns n possible y ble bit at the general hospital f t HItI tI H 1 Hf I I lx were killed at 4 afternoon by tho th explosion of at atto two to cars tars of powder ono containing Mack Hack tho other dynamite I at Jackon n a osman station on tho tha cutoff 85 ss miles west of ot Ogden In this tate state THE DEAD T W V Burke wife anti and three children J 1 W Burke Durke track foreman W v L hailer of Andrews Ind md Owen Dermody conductor of ot Beaver Denvor Jam Win V Louis Contis laborer of at Ogden Sixteen Greek section hands handL A score or moro more were Vera seriously In tired lured among them tho following a Taylor telegraph operator nt at Jackson Jacl eon and anc wife Injuries about head heM un body Leina engineer slight sIgh I Courtney conductor Itan atan ton engineer s t George and four tour oth ff r laborers AISI OF Ol THE TIlE ACCIDENT The Ftc cause of the accident the most mOAt r that has occurred In this beau ty U tho the explosion lu h l tho tile 19 ID months ago was n a collision of trains A supply train running west from took tho the siding at Lit Jackson to allow ft n water train of ot seven cars am to topas toast pas pal ast but bu stopped before tho hO last Ilet car vaa clear of t the main track The Tho wa wn ter train came thundering on an and In tho thoM M liable collision struck the car con can the tho black power The Tho contents cont vf f t this car exploded and Ignited tho the car of at giant powder WHOLE DESTROYED At that the Hie country and the tho town of Jackson Which aa ly moro noro than Ihan a camp carnit ft at the ne best belt wn was wrecked beyond I lion The Tho depot n a 1 roOm truo I pre turi was Vas w reduced to Five lo in I standing In tile tho vicinity were ere cro blown up UI BO IO completely that r a n pIece was found largo enough tu IL Indicate what It had belonged to ar and of at Iron Iton were hurM clr the tho walls of ot o the tho depot dOllot and aM after litter It had hall been crushed I Into into kindling the ruins increasIng the tue excitement and adding tl te the tho horror of at the tho I thine g that hat could burn lurn did dill burn Jack P poa J very Vcr quickly became a n I prairie I TilE THE OF Ol JU Minutes that hours be t fore ore Iho ti 18 recovered their senies and nd started Wr ed d the tho work of ot rescue tescue An n wnM wn cured at Hog II PJ p mid rain al made nado lip up P to Convoy vey tho the injured n to Ogden 1 of or whom lied died On n th the way III V rl O Dermody anti and the tho o ma mall mail cei bok TIle The form torm er f dId not liyo IIvo moro more than thc ft nil an Otter fter I II hat i la l It ns as th tM the re 10 train n f Inke IN N Ogden wa a In tt a fever ever of or e the Wh n tho the trail train the II d drew Into the Union station italian dozens of carriages were In waiting to take tako the places of at lances This hI wag at 1030 last night The Tho sight licht was pathetic especially so o when the Woman Mrs Taylor Talor was wait lifted out of at the tho car her head swathed In bandages Only one ono man was Wa able abbe to willie unassisted They nil all seemed to have met with injuries that will maim malm them for tor or life lito Considering the tho fact tact that neither heither Mil her of tho the trains In III the th collision was a pas pus conger the thu death list Is startling It would not have havo been bOen as liS large had not the Greek laborers beer been aboard They were being transferred from one ono point to another Mother SHOCK FELT FEET FOR FOn MILES dILES Some Bomo omo Idea of tho the force toree of ot the explosion slon sion Is gained through the statements I of ot telegraph operators at towns distant from the tho scene of at disaster At Terrace fifteen to the shock was terrific terrible Residents believed at first that an earthquake had occurred Every window pane palin In the tho telegraph office at I Colon 45 miles away was WIlli wa shattered hattel The Tho telegraph line lino was wall severed at tho the scene sc no of ot tho the explosion and the first knowledge of at It was communicated from Terrace where the tho people saw a tremendous cloud of ot smoke arise Indi Indicating cating that a n calamity of some come kind had taken place This Thill word vord was quick quickly ly Iy sent oh to Lucin and R a lineman went out on a handcar to ascertain tho the exact nature of at tho the trouble and to re repair reo repair pair the telegraph line On the tho way ho homet homet homet met a train carrying tha th wounded FIRST OFFICIAL NEWS Tho The arrival of this special train at Lucia gave the tho first official news of at the disaster to the division superintendents office The trainmen wired Superintendent Scott that In ir a collision of ex ox extra tnt tra train engine 2110 me eastbound und and extra train engine 2833 nt lit Jackson Point men women and child children rca ren had been blown to 10 pieces many persons had hod been Injured a telegraph station had hall boon been I cen reduced to splinters and consumed in names lIames and two en entines zincs tines had hod been demolished one ono of at them being stripped cd of cab side ide rods and everything movable THE TIlE TORN TOnN UP At as ns muto mute evidence of ot tho the havoc there Id Is 1 a n hole In tho the earth almost largo large enough to have burled hurled both trains For hundreds of feet In all nil directions of human bodies were found One of tho the Greeks was found with his head hend blown oft off and the children of Foreman Burke Durko were found legless and ond armless The Tho I Injured were covered with blood and a n aI I majority of or the tho victims had their I clothes torn from them by tho the force toree of ot the explosion Ono One witness stated that he walked to where the th children lay naked to throw garments over oyer them Near Neill them was the tho mother then tho fattier father anti a n short distance beyond the tho brother The family was stricken from tho the earth as ns one person por on Of 40 persons nt at Jackson only nine nino without Injury Five of ot tho the nine were a quarter of a I mile away I Five hundred yards ards of ot track wa was w JI torn tori up and three miles of t telegraph line lino blown down NARROW ESCAPES ESCArE Narrow escapes were numerous Conductor S H J Courtney who was on ona a 1 gravel train was Tons passing from the I caboose to the engine when the explosion elect sion occurred Tho The concussion caught C him In the back and side tearing n a 1 square of cloth from tram his hili coat as nil neatly as a n l have IIno done clone with witha a n pair of ot shears Tho conductor was EO 50 O toot foot but his hla Injuries are not serious E Id D Butler nutter another was thrown down anti and severely verelY e bruised but heroically wont went to the tho relief relict of the tho Injured tearing his hla coat Into shreds for fo bandages A t brakeman named Vosberg was wan carried Fomo somo distance th ough tho the air but got gal oft off with slight hurts At the Ogden general hospital a corps of at nurses worked for honis un under under der del the direction of or Drs Gordon Joyce JOCO I and Perkins The last named surgeon for tho the Southern Pacific stated that only two of the Injured inSured had hall poor chances of ot recovery They are Greeks whoso whose deaths are expected nt at any time John Contis Con n a well weli known Imon merchant of at Is III a 1 brother of or tho the dead man iann manby by b that name Tho The victim has hall a wife and four tour children In Greece OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION The county officials of at county went to the scene of at the catas catastrophe catastrophe on n a special train preparatory to nn Rn Inquest The Tho bodies of at the tho dead will bo be prepared for tor burial at Ogden |