Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-12
GRANGER OPERATOR BLAMED.
sn,,buo Was Caused by q Headon
Collision Between Passenger
AID Fruit Special.
ACCIDENT IT'S MILES FROM OGDEN
r,.,tluo Crew Sent 0ut From Salt
lske-AlI Traffic is Temporarily
stopp,d-List Of Victims

shortly after midnight passenger
,,,,n No. 3. Union Pacific, due 10 ar
,,ro hare at $50 this morning, colllded
h,,d.on with fruit special at Azusa,
wvo 10 miles east OF ogden, with the
,..pr that from latest reports received
10, General Manager Bancrofts office
,Asro were nine killed and FIVE injured.
The names Of the dead 80 far made
public aro'
WILLIAM MURRAY, engineer Of
passenger train.
r. F. EcCLEs, Evanston, engineer OF
freight train'
BERT SHERMAN mail clerk, chey.
sNne.
SAM JEFFERSON, car Inspector,
JOE LowHAM, Evanston, head
freight brakeman,
Two passengers IN the chair car.
Freight fireman missing.
Brakeman missing.
INJURED.
John p. Winsow Of Evanston, Pacific
messenger was fatally injured,
Among the injured are three passen.
gers the bagsageman and mail clerk.
While there Is nothing DEBATE FORTH
coming as TO the cause Of the wreck It
was officially stated this morning that
The blame lay on the shoulders Of the
operator at Granger and not the train
dispatcher
Both trains were going at good rate
Of speed at the time OF the accident
and there Is nothing IN the report sent
unto headquarters TO denote that there
was a curve at the point named, on
elals deny that the cars rolled down the
tmbannnent They say that It &c a
bad wreck and admit that traffic Is
temporarily blocked.
General superintendent q. Bucklng-
ham, as soon as the serious nature Of
the wreck was wired IN. left salt Lake
this momlnfg early on special and
ordered the wrecklng OUTFIT 20 proceed
from Ogden TO the scene, Everything
was sdetncked and the special with
doctors made record time Mr. Buck.
dngham Is now on the scene superln.
tending the picking up OF the wreck and
getting things into shape.
The section Of the Union Pacific on
which the wreck occurred Is under the
operating jurisdiction OF the oregon
Short Line,
It Is the worst wreck, from the point
oi loss Of lite, that has occurred in this
section 10 date.
ASSOCIATED PRESS ACCOUNT
Ogden, Utah. Nov. 12.--West-bound
Union Pacific passenger train No 8 and
an eastbound freight collded head-on
q lew miles east Of Granger Wyo., at
: m Both trains were going at a
hlgh rate Of speed and were deraiIed,
gong over an embankment 10 feet high
ana the mail and baggage cars were
Ielescoped. Both engineers and one
fireman, names unknown, freight con-
uuClor LoNham OF Evanston, Wyo,
heli clerk sherman OF Cheyenne, a car
ielalrer and TWO passengers, names un-
Known are Known to have been killed
,Erecker was sent out from Ogden at
$50 o. On.
CHEYENNE REPORT.
Cheyenne Wyo.. Nov l2.-It is re.
ported here that five passengers,
names unknown) were killed IN the
SSollslon near Granger. Engineers
murray and Nichols and Mail Clerk
sherman we're killed and Mail Clerk
Nolan fatally injured.
dren ''''N '''' N'"
Frank Nolan, The injured clerk, is
tyn OF Policeman John Nolan OF Chey-
eune' lie Is the big center OF the Chey.
.nne Business college basketball team,
ana member Of the football team.
John D. Spencer OF Salt Lake. and
VWae OF me local representatives OF the
nen iork Life Insurance company,
, Mas wei acquainted with two OF the
'euIna- Eccles and Inwham and re-
pshuy wrote lolicies for both OF them.
ives was not satisfied with one, and
1quently got two both nretfy fair