The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-13
STORY OF THE WRECK.
Passengers on the Short Line Train
Brought to Ogden.

Ogden, Nov. 12-The wrecked train was
not brought into Ogden till near midnight
Most or the passengers on board said
they understood there were IL or TC
kltleG, out none OF them has seen more
IMAM H. The passengers brought into Og-
Neh were none OF them injured in any
way except for a few bruises and cuts.
caused by falling against seats and The
sides OF the car. They say that all the
passengers who were in the Punmans es-
capped with practically no injuries. The
trains came together at the bot-Cu of a
httc valley which was a low point IN the
grade so that each had been coming down
mn, ana the freight had just rounded
curve so that the engineers cCuld NOT
have seen the danger until a Few seconds
before the crash.
The mass Of wreckage was piled and
twisted into almost incouceivable shapes.
one passenger described the condition OF
the engines by saying: They were
crushed and stove together lust as two
plug hats might be placed one against
The other and then jumped on
Story of Passenger.
Nine dead bodies were placed out on the
ground in a row when the coroner ar
rived Mrs. Alice Pecolt Of Grand Rap-
luS, Mleh5 VINO was en- route to Los An
II felt the jar and the sudden stopping
OF the train and knew that something
was me matter. but 1 did not realize no
awful seriousness Of il until ] gor out
with q number of other passengers and
saw the heaps of Wreckage and heard DeO-
Pie say that there were dead bodies in
wreckage started 10 take fire bot some
body carried water and put out the
flames. The baggage man / believe his
name was Nlnslow, was sitting on Il
trunk when the crash came Another
heavy trunk was piled on his body and II
was quite a while before he could be ex-
tricated. In the meantime ne was scaIded
1N the escaping steam / helped TO nurse
a NJ hrH IN TnrrT1,
car He Will get we'll all right although
he is pretty badly scalded.
Pinned in the Wreck.
"Onc 17-year old boy was pinned under
Sic WreckaSe with heavy beam across
his nips. He was one of the last tobe
taken out. A dozen men WORKED ruriousIv
but II seemed impossible TO get him ont
uhul inc Wh0le mass was taken from on
top of him. The boy was hysterical both
during the time they were getting him
out and afterwards. he told me his name
q dozen times. but ! couldn't hi1k of il
mus moment 10 save my, life. nave been
tweutT-four hours without sleep. This
boY. the doctors said, would get well and
that his hurts were really not az an
serious, being simply bruises about bis
hips
Cause of Accident.
The cause of the wreck. according to The
generally accepted version Of ,he train
mon. Is that the operator at Granger made
a where he should have made "A %
IL Is known that No. g. west bound was
late about an hour and a half and that
the dispatcher had issued orders to that
effect through the operator at Granger.
who. therefore. would have TO give a copy
OF the order 10 each train affected. Such
an order would require many copies and
those taken AT the time or al least the one
furnished the Inflated freight must have
read that No. 3 would run an hour and 30
minutes late instead of an hour and %
minutes late. Such a mistake would ac-
coIding Co a trainman VINO knows the
locality, have caused just such a disas-