The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-14
TELLS STORY OF
RAILROAD WRECK
Morris Block of Kansas City
Was Passenger.
SIGHT BEGGARs DESCRIPTION
MoANS OF DYING WERE PITT
Full TO HEAR.

Morris Block of Kansas City. who
was in the Union Pacific wreck near
Granger Saturday morning, is a guest
at the Southern hotel. His wrist was
injured Slightly while rescuing some
OF the passengers from the ruins
was IN the last Pullman. eleven
cars from the engine and next TO the
rear or the train. A special car was
On the rear. | was in my berth" said
Mr.. Block, and was Just doing off TO
steep when the trains struck. IT seemed
as IL there were three crashes in ouicl<
succession. l did not know what had
happened. but quickly dressed and went
outside TO see what was the matter
The scene beggared description. The
Two engines were rendered into heans
ol scrap iron. The baggage and mail
cars were wrecked, as was also part of
the forward coach. The cries and
means or the injured and dying came
from under the cars. The pa sse,, p-a,-S
all worked hard for twelve hours ~
lIactlhg the bodies from the wreck
The cars caught fire several times I'D
we. were kept busy estinguishine the
flames with water from the filters A
uohLlre was built on either side of The
track with splinters from the smashed
cars 10 give light and warmth. The
Llshl was cold, but the air was dry
ana the reScuers worked so hard that
zone suffered from the cold.
Engineers Awful Death.
B. T.. Eckles, the engineer Of Tho
freight train, presented a fearful eiqsbt
ms BODY was literally parboiIed bv the
steam and hot water from his locomo-
i've, MIS-. w. Demming Smith of Port
ANA was one OF the most heroic of the
passengers vfio aided the injured and
lying She did much TO relieve the
suffering Of Engineer Eckles during his
last hours. s7s q "is
The accident must have hannanad
close after midnight for Eekles, vatcb
hao stopped at 1901 O'Clock. No 2 the
passenger train. was coming down q
siight grade at about 45 miles an hour
me last freight. which consisted OF q
trainioad' of California fruit bound for
tne east was going in the opposite d.
.S at ABOUT 30 miles an hour. also
down grade The trains can,a S,at 49,
St the bottom. The wreck took nIaca
between Granger and Azrsa sit1i,,-r
the passenger was an hour and q baIf
idte ana orders had been made out that
lhe trains should meet at Granger. In
s'edu the orders of the freight crew
we're mat the passenger was an hour
anu o. minutes late. so the freight wa
nurrying OF to Azusa in order 10 get as
Iar as 1t could before having to wit
Tor the west bound train
aIno moaning of those beneath the
cars was awful The cries srratraII,-
weakened, which meant thai ill., 800
pinned under the wreckage had bsen re.
teNed from their agony bv death The
IdceS OF some Of those brought cut U-aro
puTp'e ana drawn with pain
First Persons Rescued.
The first two persons rescued were
c ca from the forward coach. This
al was only partially DESTROYED The
rny1Iea were placed in a tourist car and
made as comfortable as possible Sana ~
the cars OF either train left rs t-scI
botn engines were thrown DOVE The en-
pankment- The baggage and mail oars
on the passenger were destroyed and
Iour frlit cars on the freight were de-
Hoilshed From these oranges. lemons
nuts ana canned fruit were scatternd
along the track near the wreck.
rive OF the six members OF tho freioh,
SreW were kiiled-all but the rear brake
nan, Inc surviving fireman on the pas
toiu some OF us passengers that
ne uIu not see the headlight of tho freight
engine at all, so the trains ,yers Gloss
DeIore the engineer noticed the other loco
motive and applied the brakes Railroad
men OF twenty years experience said fbe
wreck was the worst one they had over
seen nave been travelling r,vseIf for
luseen years and il is the first sy,asb-,1r
1 was ever in.