Show 1 I ELKS SPECiAL lRA N S T ON RIO O RANDE i I Collides on With Stock Train East of White orse Utah Three Trainmen Believed to Be Beneath Wreckage Salt Lake City July trainmen are aro mIssing and are arc belies ed to be burled under the wreckage of Q extra tra stock train No o 1189 east eastbound eastbound bound which went Into a headon eel col with the tho Twin City Elks spec ial in traIn w westbound at milepost I east of White Whilo Horse Utah at 1 this morning In addition to t these two trainmen are Injured one serious l 13 N Ne Jt passengers wore killed or In InI injured though they were VIere bad shako shaken n I up The Tho collision Is l believed at the of flees of the Denver RIo Grande hero here hereto to have ave been caused l a misunderstanding standing of orders ana nn an error in I flagging No Investigation has yet been Instituted b by the to place I the responsibility for the wr wrack k kW II W When en the Twin CIty Elks special westbound in charge of oC Conductor I Dodson an and driven by Engineer Hen Henry Henl ry l Heideman of oC Grand Junction met the special stock train an extra In InI charge of Conductor Billig and driven I by EngIneer A M Housto both of I Grand JunctIon both engines wore thrown from the ilie track and piled In a eap of semi scrap iron One baggage car carthe carof of the Elks special was mashed to splinters and fi five e stock stockcars catS cars wIth sheep bound for the eastern Colorado ranges wore derail derall cd and ani plied piled in a confused heap along the track I Scenes of confusion quickly follow followed ed cd the tho disaster Passengers In the tho sleeping cars rs of the Elks specIal wore were thrown from well theIr berths while wore Wom I en screamed and fainted MissIng Engineer HeIdeman of Twin City Elks special residence Grand Jn Junction Vaughn same train residence Grand Fireman E F Heinze same train residence Grand Junction Injured Brakeman nurl Burke e Grand Junction serious Engineer A M Houston Grand Junction slight injuries It Is not believed that the inca mcm I could have survived after being bur hur buried huriCh iCh under the mass of twisted Iron IronI anti and splintered timbers tram front the I wrecked ears cars Horror was added to the scene by bythe bythe the injuring of many of the sheep thit I 1 wem vere In the tue five stock stockcars carS which were also piled up on the tho thoI I track The bloating bleating of the an anImals heals was pitiful and anel added to the tho distressing scenes As quickly ns as the ilie injured mon were made comfortable lii In the sleeper a canvass lD ass was made of the passengers of the Elks special It was learned that not nol one passenger was injured beyond suffering a few minor bruises from being thrown from their berths The nearest telegraph station la is Cisco which Is seven miles from irom the tho point where the collision occurred As soon as possIble men were sent to this lills point whence wore were Immedi atel transmitted to Salt Lake city and to Grand Wrecking trains were ordered to the scene from Grand Junction and Green River The work of oC removing the tho wreckage and searching for the bodies of the themen themen men buried in the wreckage and be to Ilave havo been killed wa was taken up tip as quickly as possible and nud will be carried forward as rapidly as the tho men can remove the debris The flue work of constructing a shoo shoe fl fly around the wreck to lo permit or of the passage of passenger trains WitS was begun bogun and It Is believed that trains will be moving at 5 this aft afternoon afternoon In the event thIs shoo fly cannot be placed quickly enough to permit the tho moving mong of trains by that hour the tho company compan r wIll probably transfer their passengers to trains go going lug ing either way war I I pany Burt is said to have taken a 10 from the till that had been marked and placed there by his employer He spent the mono money at a saloon and was Identified as having Presented r the tho In Ire Ho pleaded gunt when taken before or of the tho Peace Frank and ond was to thirty days In the county jail r an It Italian an dur ing tho disturbances attendant upon In dependence day dap celebration WM sas fined 30 by br the justice court for having attempted to stab slab Antone Antene Tedesco |