The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-28
WENT RUSHING
BY THE STATION
ccontinuaa RON Page ID

Continued From Page ID
she'll The running gear was crumpled I.
up like so much Irvine. Great cast /
steel side rods were went into many
shapes and even the steel tires of the .
big driving wheels were split and
sprung from the wheels. landing IN
some cases ten feet from the engine. 1
The boiler Of engine no. 391 turned
over several times and the very force
Of the twisted impact seems to have
been the means OF saving the life Of
Engineer Waterman lie was fung
forty feet over the fence at the edge
Of the right of way Moon, his fire
man. was sitting on the opposite side
Of the cab. and he. too. was thrown
clear OF the pile OF Wreckage-
AS the trains came together the
steam domes of both boilers blew OF,
releasing their contents. else there
would have been added horrors rom
the blistering steam.
Smoker TelescOped.
No. 6. east bound. was composed Of a
mail and baggage car. combination
smoker. buffet parlor car. day coach
and diner. The Baggage car caught
between the engine and heavy train.
crumpled up like pustebOard, only the
big blind mail coach, heavily bulk
headed took the brunt of the blow. but
withstOOd the crash and communi-
Gated it to the smoker next ia the rear
The smoker was swept clean as the
mail car telescOped its entire length
and turned over at the north side OF
the track.
The smoker in turn crashed several
feet into the parlor car and il was at
the rear end Of the smoker and for
ward end Of the cafe car where the
passengers were killed and injured
From a space six feet square the bodies
of two women, a boy and man were
taken out.
The westbound flyer. with its heavy
bull1headed cars. stayed on the rails
back of the baggage and mail cars.
and the passengers in this train es-
capped serious injury AS one man they
rushed out Of the train to assist the
less fortunate ones on the train from
this city
Many stripped warm oyercoats from
their backs and covered the suffering
injured as they were borne to the less
shattered cars of No. and into the
remains Of the parlor car of No. s.
Nearby farmers. hearing the crash,
turned out with blankets and did val
liant service.
Sixty Miles an Hour.
According to statements made by Of
ficials of the Pere Marquette, the west
bound train was travelling down grade
at rate of sixty miles an hour The
castbound train was climbing the hill
at q speed of forty miles an hour. Ihe
former carried probably seventy fve
passengers. while the latter is believed
to have been carrying at least ~ pas
sengers. The two trains COLLIDE az
about the middle of a long. sweeping
curve three-quarters of a mile west Of
East Paris
on the inner side Of the curve is a
high embankment, preventing view
Of the track ahead.
When the engines met. one turned
completely over and lay with its nose
IN direction opposite to that in which
it had been travelling. The other
climbed the wreckage of the first its
boiler. torn from the trucks standing
erect in the center OF the debris.
IN the cafe coach Of the Inflated
eastbOund train. which was demolished
as far back as the rear Of the forward
trucks, one Of the most shocking OF
the many tragedies Of the wreck was
! enacted.
All Three Killed.
/ Section Foreman Linden J. Baldwin
( wife and son had spent Christmas in
\
their home at Mullikeh- Between the
man and wife. sitting on the top Of
! the car seat and playing with bank
! received as Christmas gift, was their
little son. The crssh came and all three
met death. A beam flying through the
air struck the child. beheading him
Mother and son were found together
on the floor of the cafe car by the
/ wrecking crew when they penetrated
/ into the wreck.
! The first relief train sent out from
/ here brought in the injured and those
/ Of the dead who could be recovered
without the aid of the wrecling outfit
/ The injured were rushed to the hos
I pitais, where everything was in readi-
ness for their reception. The second
/ relief train. with the tool car ano
steam crane. was sent to the wreck as
! soon as the temporary hospital trair
/ had arrived here. Within twenty min
utes the wrecking crew had dug out
/ eight bodies. each one Of them froZeT
stiff. They were brought here and SEN
I TO the morgue Shortly after noon 2
third train arrived from the wreck
[ with the last of the bodies. those OF
/ Engineer StOddard and Fireman Burns
which had been found beneath thu
! wreckage Of the engines. Burns body
was burned into shapelessness.
General superintendent Smith inter
! viewed Operator Booth at McCord!
last night. and said today
Operator Believed.
q have no reason to doubt the state
ment of Booth that his light was burn
ing two minutes before No. . passed
/ McCords. and that the wind eXtin
guished it. He is an old operator, ant
has been in the employ of the road 70
several years
superintendent Smith said further:
This is the first wreck i'm which tn
Pere Marquette ever killed a passen
ger on its own train. The road ha
killed passengers on other roads, per
sons at crossings and employees, bu
never before has il killed outright o
fatally injured a passenger Of its own.
Coroner Hiliker lmpaneled a jury 70