Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-09
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water went MP. The water tanks were
torn from their isstenings In the
coaches that could be entered anu
blood.besmesred men carried them
over the broken timbers to quell tbs
fset.spreading flames.
The dead aud mangled bodies OF
four victims were uraREBU to the grass
Ieside the track. The women paesen.
gers buddled together IN terror and
watched the flames grow higher AMI
higher.
After bercnlean eff lrts the flames
were finally subdueu anu the work Of
rescue made more easy.
ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN DEAD.
Engineer Brannnn was found under
his engine dead. Engineer Nate
Hollister was thr.wn thirty feet from
his en- ine aud was picked up dead.
Engineer Frisble was picked up some
distance from the track, fatally Ia.
ured. Benz. Waller, his fireman,
was terribly maugied. Shurley ami
Gonzalls, tiiemen 90 No. l, were baG-
ly Injured ana died alter being re.
moved from the wreck.
The four postal clerks on No. ] were
al found. they were II. .. McGee,
w. +. Jones, NJ. j. McGlade anu
Clsuue Holiday, all u Kansas Guy.
Holidays legs wers broken ood he ~
Injured Informally. nj. j. Mediate
wss crushed aud bruised about the
mead a. body and ne DIED shortly ue.
lore mijuighl. Jone,' legs are mashed
and his head is badly cut. McGee's
i9gs are crushed. Tne pgslal clerks on
the fast mail were A. Doro, J. F
5suer, txpiesa messenger, was killed,
and q. w. VaDCleve, brakeman. is
fatally Injured.
After n time a relief train arrived
anu the injured were taken to Topeka.
HERoIsM OF W. BRYAN AND
Others.
Many deeds OF heroism were per.
formed In the brief space that seemed
Ike ages 10 the men who were sIrug-
CLING TO save their fellows. Me-
whoee property was lest In the wreck
age, whose vslusbles were hidden III
vallses that lay strewn over the ground
or waited tV be luel for the flames,
fought for mastery over the IRE and
carried water when It could be ob-
taiued to unfortuuales who we're su'.
IerlDg from injuries.
VIM. }. Bryan YVES Interviewed "a
to his experience In the o liision.
VI have Travelled thousands upo
thousands OF miles on railroads BnG /
was never in wreck before. | dil
cot leel the shock very severely
where L was, but from the way things
luokeu 1 cRnoot sec why We were not
all killed. Tue scene mere presente4
is the mist terrible have tvsr sesp.
1t has made an impression on me lhsl
can not leave me In a liietime."
"ls II tIue you were The inst man 10
reach the scene from our car and 90
to Tue rescu.?" he was asked.
"PIsass don't say sLyihIng about
that" Mr.. Bryan repiieu with dep
recatlng gesture.
From passengers pretent 1t was
learned that MIR. Bryan was the fret
person to rush forward to the assist
ance OF the victims: that he nesisted
20 carry the first body recovered and
that ss long as there was any neces.
sity he was foremost in the wreck.
Mir. Bryan anu David L-shy,a Tope-
ks newspaper man, were in the smok-
ing coaon OF tue wtstbuund train.
They were d 'scussing the days events
at Burlingame, where the Nebraskan
hau been the attraction Tor Thousands
OF people, wnen they heard a crash,
then an tGplosion. In q moment the
lights wsDt out and steam and gas
II m the coal and snoAe filed the
cor. Befure they could make move
he car was pushed forward with
tiemenG Gus force and II seemed to toss
into the debris like crippled ship at
sea. The car finally stopped, and us II
did go, began to catch fire from below.
rne two men jumped out OF the same
window without their hats or baggage,
which were after ards burneu, ana
9. cape1 practically without a scratch.
THEY WERE BRAVE.
Claude HOLSTER OF Topeka had both
bis legs broken aud shattered in half o
dozen places. When his rescuers Ihiu
him on the grass by the track he
turned to one OF the group and asked II
ne would pull through.
When assured that he would live ~
he was brave, he said: cam l not
brave; look at my legs dangling and
thop ask me TO be brav,i l suppose
they will have TO be smputated, but
through IL. i do not propose TO oio
tVA 'apH VI w "be my
Goo! What has become OF my COM
rs 1ek?"
William Frlsboy, engineer OF the
fast mail whose residence Is in Topeka,
was conscious until ne died. He
said: "I did not see tho other train
until came upon II. turned on the
air and jumped. presume cannot
recover, but l will die as brRvely az
can. want you men to leavs me
anu help victims that are more un.
fortunate than am"
A. B. Adams, who Ia among the
injured, was on his way to Mexico
from Now Jersjy with registered
bonds amounting to $500, 900 and a
great deal OF other vausbles. They
were all burned In the hre that fol.
lowed.
DIM LIGHT MAY HAVE BEEN THE
CAUSE.
Behind the westbound train that
was wrecked, was q freight train. Its
81 gineer stopped nj Lang Tor ordsrs.
HI says today that the red light, th o |
danger signal hung out by the opera
tor there to warn the wesibound pas. |
senger to stop, was burning so dimy
and the glass smoked so banly that he |
could not see II iii he lett his cab and |
had gone close up to 1t. The dimueze |
NJ this liQnt wan rrnha hIy tho rauaa nf /