Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-11-28
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FOUR SCORE PEOPLE
KILLED IN COLLISION
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so | presume | could have stopped,
but understand now how Ii ID with
these electric headlights--yo cannot
tell anything about how far away they
are. IL was on d straightaway track
and thought they were waiting for ne
at Sand Creek. They doubtless thought
we were stopped at Seneca and SO both
us came on at full speed
1--WE must have been running 80 miles
an hour. When we saw they were ON
top OF us | saw must Jump. There
was bridge right ahead and / did not
want 10 fall In that so | waited until
we were past and fell There was only
slight embankment and the crash
came right after let go. I rolled fully
three rods. When / came to there was
my engine on one side Of me and the
trucks Of the second car, which was
telescoped, on the other"
SuPT BURNS TALKS.
Supt. Burns today said that Engineer
strong of No. was responsible. "His
orders" said he CLEARLY bid him TO
pass No. 10 at Seneca. lie evidently
forgot them for he did not stop there
and the collision resulted"
Supt, Burne estimated the financial
loss to the Wabash at $4,000,
ENGINES PILED UP.
The three engines piled themselves In
an indlscrlmlnate heap with the leading
engine OF No. 10 above the other two.
The first three coaches OF the train
were so telescoped that they were moth
Ing but a mass of debris. One imni-
grant car was compressed into a COM
pass about s feet In length on the track.
The flames started below the lmmi-
grant cars and here the heaviest loss
occurred, 1t being estimated that about
hfty persons, men, women and chill
dren were moved down by the holo-
caust, The loss In the rest OF the train
was not heavy. the shock being borne
by the forward cars
In No. 4 the engine was followed by
accommodation car This was stout
and bore the shock bravely. The lead
Ing day coach Of the train, however.
telescoped and burned. In this were
about 80 passengers. The brunt of the
early rescue work was done here and
probably half Of these passengers were
rescued or escaped
Train No, 10 carried seventy-flye i'm
migrants from Italy bound for the coal
mines at Trinidad Colo. Not more than
half of these escaped. The train was
double-header. drawn by engine No.
81, Engineer Sam. j. Work. Fireman
Dowd, both OF Detroit. The second en-
CINE was No. ISL, Engineer Robert
Parks, Fireman Calb Baldorf, both OF
Ashley. Both engineers escaped alive,
but their firemen met death. Engineer
Work Is In great pain from scaldlng, q
broken nose and scalp wounds. He ia
unable to talk.
WHAT ENGINEER PARKS SAYS.
Engineer Parks, Of the rear engine on
No. 10 describes the collision as follows,
We had orders to meet train No. 4
at Seneca and were running about
thirty miles an hour. The track Is
straight for several miles and | could
see the headlight OF No. 4 coming up-
I'll we were about three miles west of
Sand Creek. ] put on the air brakes
and the shock came before had time
to Jump.
"rhe three engines all piled up TO-
gether. was thrown through the roof
OF window OF the cab. | don't know
which, The engine on train No fell
TO the south and our two piled up to-
gether, picked myself up on the bank
and then another man crawled up 70
me. IL was Engineer Work Both our
fremen must have baen killed"
Only a few Of the passengers who es-
capped or were only slightly injured
were brought TO Detroit this morning.
What was left Of the eastbound train
1.-TWO sleepers and chair car, was also
brought here.
WHAT WABASH OFFICIALS SAY.
st. Louis. Mo-, Nov 2s-PresIdent
Joseph Ramsey Jr., Of the Wabash,
when seen at the headquarters of that
railway here today, said that he had re-
oeived but few letails OF the wreck near
Seneca.
THE reports we have received, how
ever" said Mr.. Ramsey, SHOW that
no more than twenty persons were
killed and thirty injured The latest
report received at $3.50 u. m. from Su-
perintendent Burns, VINO has been at
the scene Of the wreck since last night
gives those figures as the result OF his
personal Investigation, ! have always
Insisted that whenever wreck occurs
on the Wabash the number ana names
OF the dead and injured shall receive
the first attention OF the official investi-
eating the affair. The property loss
and details OF the wreck, responsibility.
etc, can come later.
II can not see how the accident oc-
cured as II did, for the track on both
sides of Seneca IL etraightaway. giving
every opportunity for men on the front
OF one train TO see the approach Of an
other. A wire from Superintendent
Burns states that the track was cleared
by b;35 o, M"