Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-03 | Page 1 | 6 Dead, 38 Injured in Utah Wreck

1 fl a H SALT LAKE LALE MOTHER DIES BUT INFANT BESIDE HER LIVES I TRAIN WITH HURT ARRIVES I II I p I II I Eastbound Denver Rio Grande Passenger I Train No 2 Hurled From Track as It Steams Along Treacherous Canyon I Country Brakeman R G I Johnson of Ogden Among I Among Injured I ISALT SALT LAKE May Six 3 3 Six persons are dead and 38 I injured as a result ofa of a wreck of Denver Rio Grande I I Western Vestern passenger train No 2 eastbound at 1 11 1 o'clock o'clock Wednesday night near Woodside Utah nearly miles I I from Salt Lake I i Mrs Irene Mohr died aboard the special train of in- in injured injured in injured I on the way to Salt Lake Her infant child lives I IThe The special train reached Salt Lake shortly after noon and those injured were immediately taken to hospitals I Four of them George Derrickson Derrickson Neb Mrs I Hattie Snook Portland Ore Mrs Paul p Iowa and George McGill Indianapolis l md Ind are reported to be very seriously hurt and not expected to live I Albert L L Turner Canyon road Ogden was the conductor in charge of the train His head brakeman was Ripley Johnson Twenty-eighth Twenty street Ogden and lOan ELou E Loughran E-Loughran hran 27 2719 1 9 Lincoln avenue Ogden was the flagman flaman J Johnson was injured The w week ck occurred ill in the treacherous canyon country in inthe inthe inthe the A ri mountainous legion l gion gionO two tso miles east east of Woodside at about 11 ii 0 dock o'clock last night I Be Besides the smoker and baggage car to tio Pullmans left the tracks but did not overturn 0 it was reported The other five ears cars on th tIll the train tram remained on the track and their occupant 1 ere Ore t uninjured except for shock Rail Kill officials hen hell m iii explaining the pO possibility of one member of the lie crew of each engine being killed while the two others escape escaped said that hat the locomotives CS became detached lin in the tm- cra crash h falling on opposite sides of the track Engineer Fled Fied A Rader of Grand Junction who was usa iii charge of the second engine engine of the double h header aller and Fir Firemen A Andersen Anderon of the first engine WI e instant lulle killed in the wreck The bod body of the fn email eman wa a recovered reco from piles of o late last night night Engineer Joe Westbrook e an and William Gillie GIllis fireman w with ith Ruder in the second engine mirac mirac- miraculously escaped death Neither uther el e 1 to ha hae ha e b been cn in- in m-jurd m i jur jurd although the thc men working beside them were ere crushed Westbound trains from Den Dell are being held at Grand Junction Cob Colo while th tins wreckage is being cleared Officials of the load here here including Assistant Superintend Superintend- Superintendent nd- nd ent I II Luke Lule and General Superintendent J D Stack left Salt Lake for Woodside carl early today todar toda and are expected to tak charge of the lie investigation of th the wreck