Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-10-25
At THE GREAT WRECK.
cr,uhic Account Of How Many Passenger
Were Rescued.
SOME BODIES MAY HAVE FLoATED AWAY


creme Of greater litter and property
obstruction than yesterdays sun ant
last nights torch light displayed. The
weary gangs of wreGkers were relieved
early this morning by fresh ones.
when the wreckers brought the
tackle on the sleeping car Glen Alpine
10 drag her up, there was much ex-
c,ement and speculation, as it was be-
flowed that there must surely be some
bodies In this car, the most deeply sub
-,,rga5 of the lot When the car had
been placed on the scow and the wa
ier had run out of 1t, the searching
marty went through and to the sur
mise of the railroad officials and
ryrrvb3Gy near, not II body was dis
covered. Some curious things were
found. however, which tend to make
The escape of the passengers in this ear
almost miraculous. Not only were the
hlankets and curtains thrown down
and jnmmed into the front Of the car,
but the seat bottoms, which at night
serve as the bed bottoms. the mat
tresses and pillows, and every movable
thing I'm the car had been damned
from side to side and from end to end
Of the car in n manner that would
seem almost to preclude the possibility
is believed, however. that all in this
car escaped and as there were fun
score OF handbags and satChels In the
cas- there may have been that number
Of passengers.
Some Of the people in the vicinity
and the hotel keeper at Garrison say
that they helped dress some OF these
people. but the supposition Is that the
majority who escaped with their lives
and not their baggage, We're taken care
" by the passengers in the sleepers
that remained on the track and when
taken to New York city were provided
with clothes by the railroad people In
The state room Of this car were q bride
and groom who escaped with the
others
Just to the rear Of the Glen Alpine
ives the car Hermes, which. In the
plunge. left It's trucks on the track
j and landed on its bottom in the river
hut only in about three feet OF water.
The porter Of this car, William Pat
tereon, nm intelligent and cool-headed
man, tells the most graphic story of the
wreck. To Colonel Ashley w. Cole,
PRESIDENT Of the State Railway commits
sion. who Is making an investigation,
Patterson said:
"Just before the accident I was
awakened from doZe by the slowing
/ IN OF the train, and ! got up. | looked
out NJ the window and Just ma ! did
80. there came crash and the leap of
Il the car toward the river. ] was thrown
H to the floor, hut getting up in n mo-
4 meut | seized hammer and pushing
Il outside broke all the windows on the
shore side and in few minutes had
got my twelve passengers out. | am
positive every one got out, because
there was only a foot or SO OF water
IN the car at the time. When all my
passengers he'd got ont. we began to
look out for the others. The car Her
mes was Just ahead Of mine and had
plunged into deeper water so that one |
end was completely submerged. while |
The other was against the end of ours
and tribe higher, ] saw people |
climbing out Of the hiGh end and |
am quite positive that before the car |
settled into deep water we got every |
body out, Some of the people were |
ScantIly dressed. They hurried away to
The other cars, and think were taken
To Now York
After we had got out all the sleep
Ing car passengers, we saw some peu-
pie from the combination car swim
lnlhg n the river and we helped them |
! TO safety ! am afraid that some peo-
We Who We're liberated from the other .
,eIs alright were drowned, because of
4 'ns eoid water cramplng them"
4 Colonel Cole said today that while
the bank may have given away 1t was
lssioe That a driving rod of the en-
b,ae had broken, and knocking the To-
sm9tlYe of the track had accustomed
Z Ma Disaster
u there are more bodies of passen-
We IN the wreck or in the river. they
il Ie believed to be in the day coach,
,yMcn Hes in water up to its roof, off
hqss Deck, the diver who took six
4 ,olles out of this car last evening said
y could find no more. Many believe,
a h'Wever that other dead will he found
" mis- car when II is raised. Passen
n GERS who escaped from this oar AND
we crew have said that at least
t~elye persons persisted in the day
The work OF searching for bodies
4 Nhleh had been tempornriIv susnnnded
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.oln,fd for by the conductor and nor
,els' % is to be presumed that no Wnp-
t,,er p1seongars were killed There was
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