The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-02-24
DEATH BY DYNAMITE.
CAR OF DYNAMITE EXPLODES
ANDKILLS TWENTY-FOUR
PERSONS.
Report Is Heard 85 Miles-Colli-
sion Results From Brakes on
Train Being Out of Order
Twelve Persons Are
Also Hurt.

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Twelve Persons Are
Also Hurt.
Ogden, Utah, Feb. 19.-Twenty-
four persons were killed and II
badly injured this afternoon by the
explosion of a carload of dynamite,
caused by a head-on collision at
Jackson, telegraph station on the
Ogden. Lucin cutoff of the South
ern Pacific company, IS miles west
of Ogden. Eight of the dead and
five of the injured are Americans.
The others are Greeks.
The collision occurred betweentwo
extra trains, and was caused it was
said, by the airbrake apparatus on
one train failing to operate. The
explosion which followed the COLI
sion was terrific, everything within
radius of half mile being wreck
ed. The report was heard in this
city, IS miles away. Several outfit
cars, occupied by Greeks. were COM
pletely demolished, and the occu-
pants blown several hundred feet
from the track. The telegraph Of
fee was shattered and Operator
Taylor and his wife injured Fore
man Burke, his wife and three chill
dren and his brother, who were
standing nj ar the station, were shot
200 feet through the air and In
stautly killed.
When the news of the accident
reached headquarters in this city, a
special train with doctors, nurses
and stretchers was hurriedly dis.
patched to the scene of the disaster.
Late tonight this train returned to
Ogden with the injured.
The town of Terrace, Is miles to
the north, on the main line of the
| Southern Pacific, was shaken as by
n earthquake. The telegraph sta.
ton at Coloe, Is miles distant, and
every window pane broken.
The explosion was 50 tremendous
that the first knowledge of the dis
aster, instead of being received by
telegraph from the scene Of the dis
aster, was communicated from Ter.
race and Lucin, operators at those
points reporting to headquarters
that an explosion had occurred. The
people of Terrace, looking across
the old lake bottom, saw an i'm
mense cloud Of white smoke ascend
from Jackson point, and spread ou
at great height and then flames
BURT forth. This information wal
given to Lucin, and q lineman was
started out from that station on {
handcar to inquire into the disaster
and it possible repair the damage t.
the telegraph line, communication
by wire over the cut.of having beer
destroy yed. He had not gone fal
when an engine and q caboose wat
met carrying the dying and wound
ed.
Where the explosion occurred
there was hole blown into th'
) ground large enough to bury +:
train, 500 yards of track were dis
!. placed and three miles Of telegraph
! ps les blown down. The dead wer,
scattered for hundreds of feet in al
: directions, and majority of tn
victims had their clothes blown off
: One Greek was found headless, an,
: : the arms and legs OF the children Q
Section Foreman Burke were tori
off. A laborer was pulled out Q
: the burning debris, his lower limb
on fire. The injured were covere,
: with blood and one heroic little VIC
man, her face SCARED with dee
: gashes that poured out stream G
: blood, unmindful of her own inju
: res, helped gather up the dead an
dying.
A witness to the scene of destruc
: ton said he walked out to wher
: the children were. naked in death
I and threw a few garments owe
: them. A few feet away was th
s mother and just beyond the fathe
: and his brother-a whole famil
wiped out.
s. Of 49, persons at Jackson's poin
: when the explosion occurred, onl
s nine escaped without wounds.
!. Baltimore, Feb- 1o.-The Bait
y more Underwater in it's issue t:
morrow will print list Of all th
fire insurance companies involve
lin the Baltimore fire. The tots
loss is $32, 1854, 800, of which Sc
900, 600 falls on the local compar
< iaa Tho astinnate total of saliva