Show AWFUL s 1 AT W JL A helwe 11 at this morning the town of helper seven miles of price was visited by a calamity that resulted in the death of two children son and daughter of mr and mrs joseph SUIT the serious burning of mrs and two other children and the destruction of between eight and ten ton thousand dollars worth of property As near as they can bo be learned at the time the news goes to press the details are as follows A few moments before the accident that resul resulted fed so disastrously two ar rs one a tank car of headlight oil and the other a flat car loaded with steel rails broke away from a siding at castle gate four miles west and up a steep grade from helper at terrific speed the runaways awa s came down the hill and collided with a live engine in the helper yards the oil car being between the engine and the car of ral rails ija the momentum of the runa 73 I 1 a alq a so great that when ben they struck the engine the oil tank burst open caught fire from the locomotive and burning oil was thrown for fifty feet into the air and much of two sleeping children cremated mother and two others burned ii it fell upon a row 0 of f hobos near the track seven or eight camilles ia families milles occupied these houses among them the members of the family mr a locomotive engineer for the rio grande was absent on a run to salt liike lake but the mother and four children were at home tho the children still in bed so rapid was the spread of the flails that two of the tile children a boy of six bears ears and a gul of eleven years burned to death before they could be taken from the burning house in trying to save her children mrs was severely burned as were also the two children between the two children who perished in ago age the father vas mas telegraphed the news of the terrible calamity that had lied befallen his family and rushed back from salt lake on a special engine provided for fo r his use no other persons were injured the crew of the engine having seen tho the runaways in time to sava a themselves the loss to the rio grande company consists of the destruction of one engine caboose and the oil and flat cars aba tracks were badly torn up in the vicinity tv of the collision and no 1 westbound was held about two hours pending repairs to the track I 1 no I 1 was several minutes late and owing to that fact escaped a meeting with the runaways between helper and castle gate had this meeting occurred it is difficult to estimate the loss of life that would have followed the houses that were consumed by tho the flames belonged to joe bonacci whose loss will amount to nearly three thousand dollars mostly covered by insurance A new house belonging to county surveyor turner was alio damaged by the flames to what extent was not learned all helper is today mourning with the tile A survivors of the family |