The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-16
STORIES OF SURVIVORS.
Randall and Bailey Tell of Accident
Scenes at Hospital.

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William Randall, one of the party
who was taken to st. Marks hospital
and who escaped with but a slight in
jury to his scalp, said in telling of the
accident last night that the members
Of the party had their heads under the
quilts to keep their ears from freezing,
and didn't realize that anything tas
happening until the crash came he
stated that they were driving west on
Eighth South street and Were ap-
preaching the railroad tracks at a live
" rate of speed. The cement works
shut out the view of the approaching
train until the sleigh was almost upon
the tracks The driver, Arthur Holmes,
saw the engine just as it was sWoop-
ing down upon them, and attempted TO
check his horses, but was unable 10
do so.
He yelled to us said Randall, but
SO much noise was being made that we
didn't realize that anything was wrong
Just then we ran upon the tracks ana
there was a crash. The. whole sleigh
was lifted into the air and the next
instant we seemed to be f1ying>througn
space. / can remember the crash ana
of seeing glare of light, and then the
sensation of going through the air, but
what happened after that / cannot tell
until I was picked up and carried 10
the car. When did regain my senses
enough to see what was going on, the
rest of the party were, lying scattered
about on the ground, some of them
grooming with pain and others lying as
still as if dead. I thought for minute
that every one had been killed, and
had no idea how badly L had been in
iured. 1 felt an awful aching in my
head and it seemed as if it must be
broken. There was scarcely anything
left of the sleigh.
when the crash came nearly all or
the others had their heads under the
quilts and did not see the train ap--
preaching at all In fact, 1 do not
think they realized what was happen
ing even when the crash came"
Randall was so badly daZed by the
shock and shaking up he received that
he could hardly tell how it all hap
pened. even after he had had his in
juries dressed. He thinks that he must
have been thrown fifteen or twenty feet
from the place where the engine came
into contact with the sleigh.
at the Holy Cross.
Upon cots in two of the wards OF the
Holy Cross hospital at midnight were
three of the victims of the accident,
waiting for the arrival OF a physician.
One of the sisters of the institution
had dressed their injuries temporarily
Two of the victims were in a serious
condition. The third patient, Miss Ad-
die Hoignez. will recover. She was
injured about the head. and while she
did not suffer so much pain as the
others, she could not give any Of the
details of the accident.
Miss HoigneZ had her head bandaged
to cover an ugly wound on the fore
head She said she did not feel any
pain about other parts of her body.
How she received her injury she can
not tell. She felt jar. Then there
was a nomentary roaring in her ears
as if a battery of trains were rushing
mast, and Inconsistencies followed
She remembers nothing more. When
they picked her up her white face was
pillowed against the snow and the
blood from the wound in her forehead
had made a crimson stain in the
snow.
Her sister, Genevieve Hoignez, lay on
a cot opposite. Her face was the color
of the sheets between which she lay.
A sister bent tenderly over the
blanched face.
''She is badly hurt" she said in a
! whisper. she has a bad cash on the
| back Of the head and she is injured in
ternally. How badly she is injured l
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