The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-27
FOR UTAH,
DIEM 4 WRECK
Italian Emigrants Killed in
Railroad Accident.
MANY PEOPLE ARE
TERRIBLY INJURED
WashOut Causes Train to Go
Through a Irestle.

Through a Trestle.
Peru. Ind. June 2s.-Thirteen persons
we're killed and about fifty others seri-
/ ouslv injured in Wreok Of train No 8,
the west bound Wabash limited, nine
miles west of this city at $3.50 a. m to-
dav. The dead are all Italian ennigrants
en- route to Utah ana Colorado Many OF
the injured undoubtedly win die.
The Dead.
Mrs. Cruise. wife OF Joseph Cruse o. o.
New york. who was injured, en- route 10
Miss Fannie Mueller sister il John
Mueller, New York, who was shBnuy IN
Luigi Benz. New York
Five Italian men, names un ll,lle,,55
Thres Italian BABIES
The injured.
H. A seabright, Logansport. Ind.
o. 3 Clough, baggage ana express mes
senger. Toledo, o.. right shoulder bruised.
Julia De Pape, ST. Louis, shgnJIy
Mrs. Thomas Jones and Earl her son.
Cedar Springs, Ont, both slightly
Mr. and mrs. James RAY, en- route TO
r. s. Braidshaw, Fort Wayne, Ind.
7tl <. D. Thompson. Peoria, MS.
'' Water LaidIaw. Wabash. Ind Lett leg
Charles Flanagan. brakeman, Toledo.
John IA wilkins. Lafayette, Ind; arm and
Nichoia PoIaski, shoulder hurt, address
Ioh8 ]. Ickes and son. John #. Ickes,
Fresno, Cal. signify hurt
Annie Gruber, years ola ana lena,
years old. Of ST. Louis bruised ana
&C g.. T. thompson. Pullman porter, Little
Rock. Ark, left side bruised
I John Nuhlvfs, Italian, en- route rom
New York TO crested Butte, Colo, risht
Niiiiam Brode, Angola, Ind slightly
Zoe Grose. badly snjured lie back and
head, and his wife missing address lIn-
Marin BIve Logansport. Ind, lips bad
Clark Taylor, Logansport, Ind, hurt
about head.
otto LuvenviIle, Hoboken, n. j.. badly
injured about head and back.
Charlie Park, coal miner, Essloence not
annie PARK wife of foregoing. right side
and arm injured; S-year-old son, lace
irene Park ? months old, face
David Agnew en- route g Reno 75.2 . JUS
bruised and broken.
John O. 9Iarro. Italiazs, 'en route to Den
S Yer from New York leg baoly ma9gieQ-
= Jose Pozza. italian. sen route TO Trini-
dad. Colo left foot ana head hurt
0 Joseph CrQse, en- route 20 Oast4e care
George s. Miner, Alton, Iliss left les
j II q Brow1eIl- baggage man, TOLEDO
o o., head, legs and shoulder injured
Italian man and VIE, Wao elIlLlot specs
English. woman slightly htrt, n1dh PROD
ably viii die.
j. p. Wood, en6nser, Logsnsport, IND.
d 9. p Horn. Legansport. Ind, left arm
= and ribs bruised.
2 John Derwinnis. Pittston. Pa, miner
l. en- route 10 Westville, Ills, injured
d F. J. CaIkins, Toledos o. lett Les in
Engineer Butler and Fireman Johs
: Adams, both Of Peru, Ind, seriously hurL
but viii recover.
vet been obtained were severely cut and
bruised
. How the Wreck Occurred.
Two sections af train No Some COM
ing from Detroit ana the other rom 20
train Of eleven cars, making up unt
flyer for its Journey TO St Louis IT con
j press. combination baggage and smoker
II day coach. ernlgrant coach, three cl3i
s Sf General SuperintendenU William Cot
Il ten of the Iron Mountain -allWay-
s train was speeding westward at a hIgi
= rate, when the engine plunged thre4Sa
= a trestle which had been undermined b-
IL on both sides of the little stream droppe.
8 Il
r. Ieel owing 20 the nloelltulH - ~
train, the engine appeared 70 leap nearI
er across the abyss plunS9U LHLo llls eoL
o. earth on the opposite side ana zen oacl
o. Engineer .ButIer and Fireman Adam
al were thrown from the cab, but not SER
~ { otlsly hurt. The express car and TN
y first chair car were telescOpad. The emf
s grant car Followed hy Two cnalr cars
and the first sleeper pitched forward o
the mass OF debris. Its windows an
- trucks were broken. but none of the oc
-cupants was injured The reUnainin
cars also left their trucks, but were nc
and day coaches that most-of the death
n ! and injuries occurred
ID Heavy foliage lined the banks on bot
sides of the cuiVerr, tie approach
she engine crew could see the impendin
- danger in facL the engine Kan our Upo
The Work Of Rescue.
,e- The nieht was. Intensely dark Lr9iI
men caught uD their lanterns and rushe
ne TO the neighDorins farm houses toE =.
he sistance. The farmers, with tner WlNs
~ and children bearing torches hastene
- to the scene, and an eIIorls Were
- TO giving first aid % the lnJurcd lee
e phone messages were dispatched 20 ln
he city. and every physician here was nt
Ca riedly taken to the scene on 7pecl
~ The arrival or the relief train W.
hailed with delisht by the lttie PAM
"a We're endeavorine TO discover the ma
ire gled victims whose means and cfl
nv age with the coming of qaNilghl u
.eu horror of the wreck was Iuiiy rcdllLe
ne corner Of the wrecked cars. and the i
jured who had been taken from q
snbanlnent. anxiousIy pIeading that .
forts be made 80 rescue their relativ
ra- The injured were brought to the s.
ale eral hospital in this city. Where sever