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Show WRECK SURVIVORS IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake, Utah, Jan 17 A numbor of &urvivor6 of the Dotsero wreck on the Rio Grande railroad reached Salt Lake today. Those who were not too benumbed by the scene of horror hor-ror 'through which they had passed related pitiful stories of the disaster. "I was sitting In a Pullman," said George II. Harris, a Salt Lake man, "when I felt a Jar. It was nothing much so far as the shock was concerned, con-cerned, but but of curiosity I went to the platform to learn the cause of the stop. Only then did I suspect that we had been in a collision. It seemed as though the passengers from every undamaged car- were upon tho scene Instantly and every man and a majority of the women set to work to aid the unfortunates under the debris. de-bris. "When we had' completed our work it was found that nineteen were dead, three others died in the hospital and a hobo who was riding the blind baggage bag-gage was crushed to death. . , That made a total of 23 dead. It was a wonder to me that the cars did not catch fire, but, fortunately we did not have to battle against that mls-'fortune. mls-'fortune. The chair coach was com-pletly com-pletly demolished and there was hardly hard-ly enough of it left to fill a cigar box. Where the accident occurred there is a river on oue side of the embankment and a sheer descent on the other side. The Impact drove the tourist sleeper right through the chair car ahead, one side falling down the embankment and the other into the water. "It seemed as though there were injured and dying people everywhere. Cries for help filled tne air and the I dying offered up prajer upon prayer J to be taken quickly that. tney might I escape their awful sufferings, and for j the protection of their wives or husbands hus-bands and children. Ihere was a w-o-man physician on board and a young medical student from New York. As fast as we could clear the injured from the wreck, we hurried them to the dining car, laid them on the floor j nnd hurried back for others. "While a party of us were at work we came upon a family of five, father, mother, two little boys and a little girl, two years old. As we reached the father cried out: "For God's sake help, my children, I am dying." j' We had been working hard but we put more energy, If possible into our labors and soon had the little girl freed from the wreckage. She was j badly hurt, but we knew It would help the dying parents If we told them the child wag safe. When We reached them with our consoling message we 1 were too late. The father, mother and two boys had passed to the great beyond be-yond "A lltle further on our attention was called to a little girl about six years old. She was lying dead upon the second locomotive" of the freight I train. Evidently when the Impact j came she had been hurled from the j chair car over the baggage car . and two engines. "The hobo on the blind baggage was pinned between the tender and the front of the baggage car. It was impossible im-possible to remove him and as ho was dead', we allowed him to remain there". |