The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-14
A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
-FOUR PERSONS KILLED OUTRIGHT
AND MANY OTHERS INJURED.
Entire Train, on Which Were About
Twenty Passengers. Now Total
Wreck ON the River Bed-ReIief
Train Has Gone to the Scene.

noon, an accommodation train was pre-;
cipitated into the bed of the creek below,
four persons being killed outright and
number of others seriously wounded;
some of them will die. The dead are:
Alexander Cameron.
Miss Annie Holland, of Riverside
Miss Kirkham.
An unknown child.
The injured are:
David Wood, Glendale, badly injured and
cannot survive.
Mrs. David Wood, wife of above, both
legs broken and internally injured.
The two little children of Mrs. Wood
badly crushed and bruised.
George Burke, engineer, severely scalded
and bruised
Charles Burke, fireman, badly burned.
Harvey Summons, conductor, fatally
injured.
Mrs Katie Miner arm and leg broken.
Mary Vintera, internally injured.
Daniel Mahoney, dangerously bruised.
Two children Of Daniel Mahoney, SER
iousiy injured.
An unknown Italian woman, unconscious
and will die.
Rosa -Budetta, Italian, badly bruised
and shaken up.
Herman Sanders, cut on leg and in
ternally injured.
A. Sanders, slightly bruised.
Mrs. Gregory of Eureka, seriously
injured internally; may die.
Two children of Mrs. Gregory, ser
lousy bruised.
Sven johnson, badly bruised, may die.
Grant Warren, cut and bruised about
head.
DETAILS OF THE ACCIDENT
are difficult to obtain, there being no tele-
graphic communication with the scene
nearer than Eureka.
As far as known, the accident was
caused by the collapse of a bridge span
ming Mad river, about five miles from
left Aracata at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon
consisted of two coaches, one box car
and engine, and carried about twenty
passengers. Shortly after o'clock tele-
phone message was received stating that
the train had been derailed at Mad river
bridge and was a total wreck on the river
bed. A relief train with doctors, nurses,
medical supplies, etc, was Immediately
dispatched from Arcata to the scene.
The three cars and engine were found
lying beneath the bridge, a mass of
splinters. The wounded had managed to
drag themselves from the debris and
were nursing their cuts by the water side.
BURIED BENEATH THE WRECKAGE
were found the bodies Of Miss Holland,
Miss Kirkham and Mr.. Cameron The I'M
known child was alive when found, but
died few minutes later
The injured were carried up a steep bank
with great difficulty, and it was nearly
10 o'clock when the relief train started on
the return trip to Arcata, bearing the
dead and wounded. The train was met at
Arcata by the entire population of the
town, and a sorrowful scene was enacted
as the dead and injured were claimed by
friends and relatives.
THE BRIDGE THAT COLLAPSED
is several hundred feet in length and has
hitherto been considered safe. It contains
one pier about midway and the approaches
are high above the gravel bed of the
stream. The train had slowed down to
about five miles an hour, as is customary,
and was moving at this speed when the
crash came. Had not the rules in regard
to speed been strictly observed, every one
on board must surely have persisted, as
an additional twenty-five feet would have
landed the entire train in the waters of
the river.
+ PASSENGERS STORY.
Mr. Louis Everding, of the Riverside
Mill company. one Of the passengers on
the train said in an interview to-
night:
There were about twenty-five pas
sengers on board and of this number
only three escaped uninjured. l was
seated in the smoking car chatting with
number of gentlemen, when the
crash came. None of US had the re-
hottest idea of what had occurred We
felt the car sink beneath us and after
downward plunge such as a person
experiences on a rapidly falling
elevator, 1 felt a sharp jar and an in
slant later 1 found myself crawling
through the side door OF the car The
train had dropped a distance of fully
forty feet TO the hard gravel bottom
of the river. All the cars We're smash
ed TO splinters and no difficulty was
experienced by the rescue party from
Vance's mill in removing the dead and
injured from the wreck Alexander
Cameron, the brakeman, was riding on
the front of the box car and his body
was crushed to a pulp. Miss Annie
Holland was struck on the head and
must have died instantly. Miss Kirk
ham was smothered and crushed to
death. A sad case is that of the family
of David Wood. Mr.. Wood is seriously
injured about the head, his wife has a,
broken arm and leg and will probably
die and his two little. children, a boy
and a girl, cannot recover.
AS TO THE CAUSE
of the accident 1 know nothing. We
were moving at a slow speed as we
approached the bridge. When the
engine reached the first span of the
structure about 100 feet of the bridge
collapsed and down we went
ENOUGH Is ENOUGH.
BATH, Maine, Sept. 13-Arthur
Sewall says he has enough times
answered the question concerning his
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