Show CAU ADON AD ON C warren C of ogden among the deada cars took fire and many bodies were incinerated cine rated fred wheeler injured omaha neb dec 7 ten persona were killed and eleven train employed emp loyes and eight passengers were injured in a wreck of overland limited passenger train no 2 on the union pacific five malca west of rock springs wyo just before 2 this morning the limited was run into headon by a freight train and both engines ft ere demolished and the dynamo car mall car and dining car on the limited were burned up several 0 the bodies of the dead were incinerated v the dead firs cook james bisbee onitha beci id cook ed rosenbaum baum oakland al fourth cook john lawless omaha tare mail darks were killed J W J F frach peterson f ogden and assistant frank mckenna engineer brink of rawlans ns brakeman Brak emar smith of rawlins employed Emp loyes injured T J smith waiter oakland cal R S matchell Ml waiter oakland cal W D parker waiter omaha ed hart waiter omaha will Po rique third cook san francisco F A wheeler dining car conductor andy jordan engineer rawlans ns injured serious but not dangerous A williams porter chicago oscar peterson fireman J H alfera fireman leg broken shafer mail clerk skull frac i lured E R smith brake mari green river passengers injured one man name not given J C hooper aalf lake sprained ankle i M C mc oy kansas city slightly injured mrs A 0 bicknell oakland cal slightly injured miss edna san francisco slight injuries mrs maud riley san francisco conUi slon ot right knee and wrist mrs G cook san francisco bruised on both S M hulatt sail francisco leg confused contused cont used and hand slightly cut by glass the tareq ad cooks are all white men and tac waiters were colored an extras train was given an order behe it left hock springs to meet tou fast bound passenger trains of the overland limited was tile luit ne at ah say a siding five miles i st of rock springs the freight ook the siding at ah say and wailed three of these trains had passed ast and then pulled out when a mila ind a halt west of ah say the freight met the limited and crashed into it leadon lead on both engines were de nolis hd and the three first cars ol 01 h e immediately caught fire and were entirely destroyed engineer brink of the freight train who it Is stated officially was responsible for over running alfi orders was one ot the hilled several trains had been badly delayed at green river the result that the tour passenger trains were running close to each other the freight had received positive arlera to meet all tour of these traina t ah say and the officials say that bic orders were either misunderstood or misread trains with wrecking cars and a large number of physicians were dispatched from rock springs and green river and are now at tho scene of the wreck the wyoming state hospital located near rock springs was convenient to the point ane wreck occurred and to this institution the injured ware removed and made comfortable without great delay the extent of the injuries of those caught in ohp forward cars has not been definitely learned but it Is believed none of them will prove fatal although several were seriously hurl the relief trains arrived at the scene of the wreck early this morning but the injured had been removed before they arrived A temporary track awas constructed around the wreck and traffic was not seriously delayed i the lead mail cherka were all from cheyenne wyo division surgeon reed and a number of division officials from rock springs arrived at he wreck shortly attar it occurred and took charge of iho dead and injured the bodies of the dearl were removed to rock springs tho mail car was the scene of greatest mortality in this car four clerks ere working when the crash came three of them were killed outright and tha fourth shafer was probably fatally hurt W L park general superintendent stated that conductor roy darroll and engineer brink were entirely responsible tor the wreck and that conductor darroll has admitted that he became confused as to the number ot trains that had passed K the overland limited was due in omaha this evening and carric di mostly through passengers superintendent park is informed that none of the passengers received dangerous and expects that they will be able within a day to resume their journey |