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Show ELEVEN INJURED iN TRAINJWRECK Limited Train Rounds Curve to Craih Into Freight Trying to Get on Siding Salt Lake, Sept. 29. Falluro on tho part of some one to obey orders caused n bend on collision col-lision on the Denver & Illo Grande in the Jordnn narrows nt about 12:65 o'clock yesterday afternoon In which eleven persons nro known to bo Injured. In-jured. Just who wns rosponsiblo for tho accident will bo found out nt tho investigation in-vestigation which has been ordorcd by tho officers of tho company. That no ono was killed or fntnlly Injured Is a mystery soy officers of the company com-pany nnd passengers. I Official information given out last night fo lows: "Information nvailnblo Is that train No. 92 figured on meeting train No. 19 at Meso, which Is first station enst of Hrnvnii, but on account of siding being occupied with cars, wns unnblo to get Into clear nnd returned to Gra-vnn, Gra-vnn, leaving flagman nt Mesa to stop No. 19, and which for somo unknown reason was not done, but which will later bo determined by regular Investigation. In-vestigation. Tho Information that cars wero on passing track at Mesa was covered by regular train order, copy of which was hold by crow of train No. 92, but on account of It being be-ing n short trnln, conductor thought could got Into e'ear for No. 19 but was unsuccessful In doing so. Tho pnssengor train was No. 19, tho Scenlo Limited, tho crack west-hnuml west-hnuml train of tho nio Grando. It consisted of two baggngo cars, a diner din-er and six Pullman cars. No. 19 was due to arrlvo In Salt Lnko nt 1:30 o'clock yesterday nftcrnoon nnd was running nbout thirty miles nn hour nt tho time of tho accident, according ac-cording to the official ropoft. No. 92, n local freight left Salt Lako nbout 11 o'clock yesterday morning south bound. Train No. 19, tho passenger train, was In chnrgo ot Conductor Ryan and Engineer Haslet; train No. 92, tho freight, was In charge of Conductor Payno and Engineer Cramer. Tho wlfo of Mr. Cramer and n number of his friends mot him upon tho arrival arriv-al of tho train In Salt Lako nnd nc-companled nc-companled him to his homo. Investigation ns to tho. responsibility responsibil-ity of tho accident will bo commenced commenc-ed today by officers of tho company. It wns said last night by officer's or tho company tbnt Brakcman W. Bennett was left ns n member of tho crew of tho frolght train to flag tho passenger trnln. Freight Not Clear As tho freight train wns trying to get into the clear nt Gravon, tho pas-Bonger pas-Bonger train, runnjng about thirty miles an hour, rounded a sharp Riirvo In tlm narrows, and dashed hendon Into tho cnglno of tho frolght train. Both engines wero pnrtly demolished. demolish-ed. Tho tender of tho passenger train left tho track and turned over on Us fildo. Tho haggago car was thrown across tho track. Word of tho wreck was received by tho officers of tho company at 1:15 twenty minutes later Dr. Warren Benjamin, local surgeon for tho com-pnny com-pnny loft for tho scono on n special train, which was followed within n few minutes by a wrecking train. First aid was given to tho InJuroJ nnd the passenger train waB ordered back to Provo. From Provo It wns dctourcd over tho Salt Lako Itouto to Murray and then to tho track of tho Denvor & Itlo Grnndo nnd on to tho local station of tho company. During tho nftcrnoon and evening six other passenger trains wero detoured over tho snmo route Tho Denver & Bio Grnndo mado no nttempt to movo freight trains until midnight last night, when It wntr announced 'H the fack had hern elenred, H Passenger Describes Ascldent '1H J. A. Malcom of KnnsnB described tho nccldcnt ns follows: '' "Wn wero traveling nbout thirty or thlrty.flve miles nn hour. W"' S tho least warning thero was a shoclr. uH I wns partly thrown m lH and somo of tho pnssengprs on "r VH car wont to tho floor; but I was not H Injured nnd I do not thlnlt that any J one clso In our car Buffered mu?h n- p jH Juries. Kvorvonn wns In n high 41 stato of oxcltement. I looked out f ot tho window nnd snw that our cnt 41 had stopped on n brldgo over tho f Jordan nnd that if tho car hnd left 4fl tho track wo would havo mado a 11 drop of about twcnty-flvo feet Into J the river filH After 1 hnd soon tho noMMon of tho iH two locomotives, tho tender hnlf on J tho top of one cnglno nnd hnlf turned j$ over, a baggago car thrown across tho ,1 H track, It wns a mvstcry to me now t'fH any of us had escaped. fH "Tho two engines were nosed so IH closo together that thero was no pi- lfl lot to bo seen, tho tender of tho pas' 4 scnger train was partly on tho en- glno nnd tho other part of tho ten- ,jH dor turned hnlf over, hut hnd not m cntlrelv left tho track, tho baggago M car of the passenger train was thrown H ncross tho track at nlmost rlnht nn- ,H pies, hut sMli retained nn upright po- 'M sltlon. Tho frelcht train did not KM seem to hnvo cuffored murh dnmago .'H except tho cnglno. Pnrt of n car "f ,B suenr beds wns thrown nlong tho M sldo of tho track." H G. S. Anderson, chief clerk of A. M B. Appcrson, general superintendent B for tho Utnh division of tho Denver H fr Itlo Grande, said Inst night that M tho property loss of tho company wilt H i amount to about 3000. by far tho H greater part of this being rolling B , stock. ! |