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Show NEGLIGENCE CAUSES A WRECK- SECTION CREW FAILED TO SPIKE DOWN A RAIL. Fast Moving Train on the Union Pacific Pa-cific Ditched Girl Killed and Many Persons Injured. As a result of alleged criminal carelessness care-lessness on the part of a section crew working near Dana, a llttlo . station twenty-eight miles east of Rawlins, on the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific Pa-cific system, nine cars of the west bound Oregon express train were hurled Into the ditch,' four passengers pas-sengers killed, nine seriously injured in-jured and a score of others burned, lacerated and badly demoralized. The accident was caused by the overturning of a rail. The section crew had removed an old rail and replaced re-placed it with a new one. WMle spiking spik-ing the latter down without putting out a danger flag or torpedoes on the track to warn engineers, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the railroad company the fast train came thundering along from the east at fifty miles an hour, and the mo.t disastrous wreck of the year occurred. The heavy engine passed ovor the rail safely, but evidently jarred the few bpiKtfS iruin iiie lies, uuu iuu iivavj rail turned on its side just in time to hurl the mall, express and baggage cars, four coaches, a diner and one sleeper Into the ditch. It is a surprise to railroad men that more passengers were not killed or fatally or seriously Injured. A relief train conveyed the dead and Injured to Cheyenne, and a wrecking crew was employed all night in clearing clear-ing tho track of wreckage and putting the roadbed in condition for the resumption re-sumption of traffic: As a result of the accident No. 3, due in this city from the east at 5:45 this morning, was delayed until 2:15 this afternoon, but the other west bound trains are coming In nearly on time. This is the third accident of a serious se-rious nature on the Wyoming division of the Union Pacific during the last three months, and although Superintendent Superin-tendent Anderson of that division is regarded as one or tne oesi rauroaa men in the west, his recent troubles have earned him the railroad title of "Hard Luck Anderson." Miss Clingenpul was killed. The severely Injured are: ' Mrs. Olive Clingenpul, Danbury. Ia., mother of the dead girl, wrist broken, suffering from severe shock. Miss 'Rose Clingenpul, left leg broken. Everett Frledlcy, Rising City, Neb., legs and head bruised, seriously. U. S. Smith, McAlester, Okla., right arm fractured. Mrs. E. M. Hickox, Grand Rapids, WJs., shoulder fractured. E. E. Barber, Junction City, Kas., arm and shoulder wrenched. John Pfeiffer, Akron, Colo., back injured. in-jured. A. T. Noll, Indianapolis, leg fractured. frac-tured. Celia Nelson, Omaha, shoulder injured. in-jured. bacl sprained. John Pass, Rawlins, Wyo, right arm broken. |
