Show FRED WHEELER CONDUCTOR ON DINING CAR INJURED freight engineer overlooked his orders cars ware burned terrible disaster from thursdays standard I 1 overland limited train no 2 which left for chicago over hannion ha Union pacific at yesterday afternoon was la a headon head on collision with a freight and ah say baet of green ihor the wreck occurred in the cut which lies these two points there is a bad curve which prevented the two trains seeing each other received at the local headquarters are very meager as alio wreck occurred the other side of green river under the jurisdiction of ahe officials at omaha of the freight train the engineer and head brakeman wre killed of the passenger three mail clerks three employed emp loyes of the dining car the electrician and his helper were killed and many passengers were injured though none fatally electrician W C Sf cigers of ogden was killed andis the only member of the crew from this city the accident was due to tho freight crew overlooking their orders which were given against four passenger trains ihrer aiom ogden and one off the granger branch of the oregon short line the overland limited was due 0 o leave ogden at p m but was one hour late leaving at castle hock they were held on account of a derailment of a coal train until 1030 last night and it was primarily due to this derailment that the collision occurred as all of the trains more or less behind time had the derailment not occurred the trains would have been passed at the regular meeting point warren C me dead electrician tr leaves a wife and a son three years old who reside in the stilwell terrace on grant avenue lie had been a resident of thia city for twelve years and is very well known in ogden especially among the railroad men his helper frank mcdonna Mc Konna was from council bluffs and I 1 well known to railroad men as his run brought him to ogden every tour days fred wheeler conductor of the dining car who Is seriously injured was a resident of ogden prior to taking the run on the overland pie was one of the charter members of the local lodge of elks A number of the dead were incinerated but it is understood body was recovered and identified sirs when the news of the wreck reached bar was at her mother s home mrs IS oakey twenty sixth catreet it was late this afternoon before the real of the disaster was made known to her th train leaving ogden yesterday wab heavily loaded and it is report d that several took the tr aln at this point the mail dynamo and dining cars were enveloped in flames and destroyed J W newsom killed in the wreck ran from cheyenne Che yenna to ogden iio was well known among the mall clerks and men of this city last night he bid the boys at the goodbye until hi m ule the return trip J F Philllp ar and frank peterson ran from cheyenne to Po batello they were not known in his city brank mckenna the dead electrician tr was infused in a wreck in nebraska about four year ago and has been unable to work since that time but had recovered to run as an electrician and was out on his first trip learning the road when he met his fare on no 2 yesterday A message was received lale this afternoon by the relatives of W C shigera to the effect that the body of was burned up i yokohama dec G the british steamer keight errant captain kendall from portland and tacoma for this port and which put in at Murr orans dec 5 by 1 lypson has here safely philadelphia doc G the american line steamship bavei ford arrived today from a rough voyage several days overdue among the steerage were more lian jewish refugees from they included men women and children who had lived in the sections in which the recent massic rei occurred |