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Show WRECK Of S. P. . PASSENGER TRAIN Head-on Collision at Lcmay, 80 Miles West of Ogden, Causes the Death of Engineer Rearclon and Two Cther Trainmen and the Injury of Engineer Hinley and Many Mail Clerks Misplaced Mis-placed Switch Caused Death and Destruction Dead and Injured Brought to Ogden. pocket was found to have stopped at exactly 3:33 a. ni. Clyde Bixlcr, who was riding on the passenger engine, a resident of Colorado, was scalded to death, and though his face and body were literally liter-ally cooked, he lived In terrible agony until after the relief train arrived, begging and screaming when not exhausted ex-hausted to be killed. Will Reardon, son of Engineer Reardon. employed as brakeman of another freight "train, which was also sidetracked, worked diligently and tenderly with the Injured, until he unexpectedly reached the freight engine, en-gine, and looking up. was horrified to see his own father dangling from the cab window, dying. The young man collapsed The members of the train crew on the freight were- Conductor W. D. Tribe, Engineer James Reardon and Fireman J. E. Hartwell. On the passenger pas-senger train were Conductor W. A. Mlddleton, Engineer A. S. Hinley and Fireman George Brldenbccker. Only one passenger, John Mumms, was Injured, and he only slightly, but the others, or many of them, were saved by the two steel mail cars, which arrested the shock. Passenger train No. C was made up of nine cars, Including two steel mall cars, baggage car, express car, coaches and sleepers. In the wreck of passenger train No. C, eastbound, on the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, early this morning, the follow-1 ing were killed and Injured: , Dead. ! JAMES REARDON, engineer, of Ogden. R. A. KROLL, brakeman, of Ogden. CLYDE BIXLER of Colorado. Injured. A. S. HINLEY, engineer on tho passenger, pas-senger, foot cut off, both legs broken and scalded about the face sorlous. GEORGE BRI DEN BECKER, fireman fire-man on No. 6, left leg broken In two places. J. E. HARTWELL, fireman on freight, right 6lde of head and face bruised and cut and ankle sprained. As he saw the engines coming together to-gether he Jumped and In that manner 6aved his life. JOHN MUMMS, passenger Muscles Mus-cles of neck Injured. CLAUDE E. SAXLEY, mail clerk-Leg clerk-Leg hurt and contusion of the back. LEWIS E. JACKSON, (Cal.), mail Clerk Back and shoulder hurt. CARL W. BETTES, mall clerk-Slightly clerk-Slightly bruised. EDWARD A. HUNT, mall clerk-Right clerk-Right arm hurt. FOREST CARROLL, mail clerk-Right clerk-Right knee dislocated. JOHN W. NAYLOR, mail clerk of Berkeley, Cal Back bruised, face end head cut and bruised. J. P. CANTRELL, JR., mail clerk Back slightly Injured. GUY R. PRENTICE, mail clerk-Chest clerk-Chest Injured, broken rib. EUGENE RANSOME, mall clerk-Head clerk-Head cut and arm bruised. James Reardon, 47 years of age, had been a resident of Ogden for 21 years. His home la nt 173 Thlrtlelh street. Ho leaves a wife and six children. Englner Hinley la one of the h"t known engineers on the Southern Pacific. Pa-cific. Hia family lives at 617 Twenty eecond Btreet. Fireman Brldenbecker la a brother of Harry Brldenbecker, the druggist, and lives at 281 Twenty-second street. Clyde Bixler In a 6tranger He was a member of the B. of L. F. & K. and a Mason. His body ha heru taken care of by the local lodge of Masons. This morning at 3:33 o'clock, at Lcmay, Lc-may, 80 mlle6 west of Ogden, there occurred one of the moat disastrous wrecks that the Southern Pacific hns had In this part of the country In years. A westbound freight, loaded with coal, engine No. 229G, bad been doing some switching and was on a sidetrack, side-track, when Head Ernkeman Naugh-ton Naugh-ton proceeded to close the switch, but failed to do so. Why, no one knows. Before the crew of the freight knew what was happening, eartbound passenger No. C, traveling at the rale of thirty miles an hour, dashed through the open switch, hurling the big battleship freight engine hack over on the coal cars, lifting the big machine some twenty-five feet from tho track. The passenger engine, though demolished, did not leave the track, hut the pteel mull coaches which are said to have been the means of saving at least thirty lives, were hurled from the track, one being be-ing thrown about, thirty feot over an embankment, while the other one was turned on its side across the main lino. The other coaches, though pretty badly jarred, kept the track. At 5.10 n. m., a relief train, made up of a wrecker, two coaches and E. C. Manson's private car, left Os den for the scene of tho disaster, bearing Supt. Manson, Surgpeon Joyce. Resident Engineer Fitzgerald and Master Mechanic Malone. The train arrived at Us destination at 7:30. making the elghty-mllo trip In two hours and twenty minutes. Before the Ogden relief train reach, ed Lcmay one was sent out from Mon tello. fifty miles west of Iemay, bearing bear-ing Dr. il A. Parndls, who rendered much assistance to the Injured and dying before the Ogden train arrived. Dr. Paradls came Into the city on the return trip with Dr. Joyce, the two physicians doing all In their power to relieve the suffering The train bearing tho dead, Injured and the passengers on the Ill-fated train arrhed in the city at 11:45 n, m. Freight Brakeman R A. Krall, while between the cars arranging tho air connections, was caught, and his body from his head to his abdomen was crushed to a pulp, and. when found, the right arm and legs were dangling to the mutilated body Hh watch when taken from his vest |