Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-06


| It's backward rush. The trucks were
still upon the track under the car In
l,front. Not wheel OH the entire pas
senger train seemed 20 be on the
track. The freight train Jared differ
entity. the four cars immepat/ be-
hind the engine were crushed int1
klndling and strewn from one fence 10
the other Dead and dying cattle lay
around In the neighb0rhood OF the
wrecked cars and some we're running
loose A carload Of hogs were nearly
all killed,
WORK OF RESCUE.
The uninjured passengers in the Pull
man cars led the rescue work. Among
these was MI Bell OF New York city,
a cripple. He is not q practising ply.
siclan, but had studied medicine for
| three years, During the past nine
months he has been under treatment for
spinal trouble which resulted from an
| injury 20 his hips and has caused the
shortening Of one of his legs, requiring
that he wear an iron heel and carry a
crutch. Despite these disadvantages he
was able 10 direct the work Of tending
the injured and he was responsible for
the saving OF some lives Bell cleared
portion Of the chair car and set up
hospital, Then he cleared berths In the
sleeper and had the victims of the Ga.
thstrephe brought In and made as COM
f0rtable as possible. He was without In
struments and medicine, and the only
thing he could do was TO bind up
wounds with bandages made by tearing
UP sleeper sheets and pillow cases. Civ
myth patients whisky TO deaden the
pain.
An artery was severed IN the fire.
mans leg. The young doctor took It up
with a pen knife and tied il with
thread. probably preventing the fireman
from bleeding to death He performed
innumerable acts Of a like nature be.
fore the arrival OF the Topeka physl-
clans. a shortage Of hypodermic. need.
les was soon discovered. Nearly all the
needles were broken in q short time and
then the doctors were forced to resort
20 whisky.
THE HERO PHYSICIAN.
The hero physician refused to give
his name to the State journal reporter,
but from passengers he was learned
to be Or, Bell OF New York City, ini-
tials not yet obtained. Miss Anna and
Miss Mary Mann OF Smithville, Mo,
acted as nurses and rendered almost
equal service with Or. Bell, working
under his direction. Two sisters named
Roseborough, helped in the work.
None OF the tralnmen seemed to know
VINO was to blame for the wreck. The
III Paso train left Topeka about 30
minutes late, and the injured conductor.
as ne lay IN sleeper berth, said that
he had the right of way and that the
cattle Train had no excuse for being
out on the main line under any cir
cumstanees. He said that II should
nave waited for the passenger at Ma
pie Hill, six miles west OF Willard. The
III Paso train did not stop at Willard,
ana was running To make up lost time.
AZ the point where the wreck occurred
there Is q curve in the track and the
engineers on the two trains barely had
time To set the airbrakes and tump
before the crash came. The heavy
freight, which looked like Il might be
hall mile long, was not easily stopped.
The passengers on the HI Paso train
were given little warning. The loud
hiss of the alrbrakes was followed all
most instantly by the blow and crush
ing sound Of telescoping cars. Not
more than two seconds elapsed.
AMID ORGANS AND sHRIEKs.
Amid the groans and shrleks of the
injured the survivors crawled out over
wrecked seats. The usual number OF
human swine were visible. They stood
around and hung on TO their baggage
win an iron grip while other men were
using all the tools on the train and |
tnen resortng TO wooden levers and |
pieces OF scrap.iron 10 break into The
death trap.
just before the car went 10 pieces |
mlddle.aged German who couid moi |
speak word OF English, came into |
ihc doomed coach with his family. con. |
sisting of a wife and five children, all |
under ten years OF age They had n |
lot or miscellaneous baggage and could |
md no place In the car. Not ton sec. |
onds before the wreck the porter called |
TO the German 10 go forward TO tho |
smoker, as there was plenty of room In |
that car The German and his family |
started forward A minute after The |
wreck the agonized German. whose
race was covered with blood from
dozen wounds, broke out OF the car
and began calling loudly for his family.
In few minutes three men came out
OF the wrecked car carrying four OF the
children. They were motherless. How
they escaped instant death is mystic
ry They had been forced upward
through the floor Of one car and were !
taken out OF the smoker which was
piled on top The mother and small