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Show S ANY fOR IN ORESIN SHORT INE RECI i 1 Twenty persons were more or less serii usly injured about I G o'cluek tins morning when Oregon Shprl Line train No. 32 was I derailed at Vends, a Biding near Downey, Idaho. j Six ears wen- died up m what w.is described as "a horrible I' mesa The injured were being cared for temporarily at a hotel in I Pownev, according to telephone mesa. s to The Standard -Examiner I from ubwae y,t . Nurses were in attendance, it was stated and arrangements were being tn.ide to rush the in. Hired in special trains to Pocatello and j i perhaps to ( lej.h'ii Bdward .Milmfr, a fireman one one of the locomotives, was the j : most seriously injured The other 19 reported hurt are: ERNEST 1 ALTON. ' FRED WOOD ; WILLIAM QOREY P. J. JOHNSON ROI'TIA J. If. M MSTRI M ARLAND LEDBETTER LOTA MATATIO W E. GRIDD EDWAK1) ROBERTA , - JOHN AXDERSQN LI! I Toh'i; DIKA " M .inllX SUKKLnrlv M ET. J. BAKER HAROLD JACKSOft C. AVERY ALBERT WHITE j II. NERR The addresses were not given in the meager reports received I in Ogdi i). BROKEN WHEEL BLAMED The tram was hound from Portland to Salt Lake and was due in Ogdeh shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. The train was drawn by two locomotives. Information from Downey sj.id a broken wheel H on one of the locomotives caused the accident. The derailment occurred on a sharp curve The cars were piled up in a heap. The cars wrecked included the mail and baggage cars, H the smoker, a chair car, a Pullman ear, besides the two locomotive" J MAIL CLERK HURT One of the ears, the steel mail emu h, w as swung so far from th jH track it struck a loaded coal car ori the siding. A huge pole wai knocked through the car. The mail clerk in the car was reported to have been seriously H One of the locomotives was reported hurled v. ra yards from the track and the other locomotive virtualh buried in the debris POOATELLO SENDS REPORT POCATELLO, Idaho. July 31. Train No. 32, Butte-Salt Lake express, was derailed at Venda, a small station on the Short Line. jH south of I'ocat. lln, al 6:05 I his morning The train was a double-header, double-header, in charge of Condnctoi Korenor and Engineers Thompson and Brennan. One Pullman remained on the track No one killed, but manj injured, and special train conveying physicians and trained nurses lrom three local hospitals left at 7:10 morning for the i'H SPECIALS DEPART Specials with medic. d aid also left oden and Salt Lake, General Manager H V Piatt and General Superintendent II F. Knicker-bocker, Knicker-bocker, of the Short Line accompanying the train. Wrecking crews iron, both Pocatello and Salt Lajc ( ity also proceeding to the scans Which is 46 miles from Pocatello. Train consisted of two engines. I mud ear two baggage ears, express ear. two coaches, one diner and I a Pullman The Krsl engine got over the derail, the second engine left the tracks, but remained upright, and all but the Pullman car turned over. Late reports of Injured only and n ae killed SALT LA K L CITY, July 31. Eight passengers and one train-man train-man were injured Beriouslj and twelve to seventeen passengers wen-injured wen-injured slightly when seven ears and an engine of train Xo. 32 on the Oregon Short Line railroad were derailed near Downey, about 4o miles south of Pocatello today, said an official report of the accident given out at the road's headquarters here. None Of the injured is expected to die, the report said. All but three have been taken to Pocatello for treatment Traffic will be i halted at the wreck until about 7 p. m |