Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-12-07
DEAD AND INJURED.
j. c. Hooper of Salt Lake Suffers
Spraincd Ankle.

| passengers were injured in a wreck of
| the Overland Limited passenger train
| No. 2 on the Union Pacific five miles
| west of Rock Springs, Wyo. just before
o'clock this morning. The limited was
| run into, head-on, by freight train.
and both engines were demolished and
the dynamo car. mail car and dining
| car on the limited We're burned up. Sew
eral Of the bodies Of the dead were In
| clnerated.
The dead
First Cook James Busbee, omaha
Second Cook. Ed. Rosenbaum, Oak
land. Cal.
Fourth Cook John Lawless. omaha.
Three Mail Clerks, j. A. Newson. f.
j Phlllppar. Frank Peterson, all from
Cheyenne.
Electrician Stigers Ogden.
Assistant Electrical Frank McKen-
ms, Omaha.
Engineer Brink of Rawlins
Brakeman Smith of Rawlns.
Employees injured:
Oscar Peterson freight fireman.
Rawlins, jumped, seriously but not
dangerously hurt
+. +. Smith, freight brakeman. Green
River, Wyo
r. j. Smith, waiter, Oakland Cal.
w. ID. Parker. waiter, omaha.
Ed, Hart, waiter, Omaha.
VIII Rodrigue, third cook, San Fran
cisco.
r. a, Wheeler, dining car conductor.
Andy Jordan, engineer.
y, Williams, porter Chicago.
Oscar Peterson, fireman.
j. II. Alters fireman, leg broken,
Shafer, mail clerk, skull fractured.
Passengers injured
one man, name not given.
j. c. Hooper, salt Lake. sprained an
kle.
NJ, c. Mccoy Kansas city, slightly
injured.
Mrs. A. c. Bicknell, Oakland, Cal,
slightly injured,
Miss Edna Llssack, san Francisco.
slight injuries.
Mrs. Maud Riley, San Francisco. con-
fusion OF right knee and wrist.
Mrs, G., Cook. san Francisco, bruised
on both knees.
). NJ. Hulett, San Francisco. leg con-
fused and hand slightly cut by glass.
The three dead cooks are all white
men, and the walters were colored,
HOW TT OCCURRED.
An extra freight train was given an
order before It left Rock Springs to
meet -four eastbound passenger trains,
OF which the Overland limited was the
last one, at Ahsay, a siding FIVE miles
west OF Rock Springs The freight took
the siding at Ahsay and waited until
three Of these trains had passed east,
and then pulled out. When a mile and
a half west OF Ahsay the freight met
the limited, aud crashed into Il head-on
1.fh fNeet,, fg~I,.
three first cars OF the limited imme-
diately caught iire and We're entirely
destroyed
ENGINEER KILLED.
Engineer Brink of the freight train,
who, It Is stated officially. was respon.
slble for oyerrunning his orders. was
one of the killed. Several trains had
been badly delayed at Granger, with.
the result that the four passenger trains
were each running close to each other.
The freight had received positive or
ders to meet all four OF these trains at
Ahsay and the otiiclals say that the
orders were either misunderstood or
misread.
Relief trains with wrecking cars and
"a large number Of physicians were I'm
medIately dispatched from Rock
npTlubS ana Granger ana are now a (
the scene of the wreck.
INJURED ATTENDED TO.
The Wyoming state hospital, located
near Rock Springs. was convenient to
the point where the wreck occurred.
and to this institution the injured were
removed and made comfortable, without
great delay,
NONE WILL PROVE FATAL.
The extent Of the injuries of those
caught in the forward cars has not been
definitely learned, but It is believed
none Of them viii prove fatal, although
several were seriously hurt. The re-
lief trains arrived at the scene of the
wreck early this morning. but the in
jured had been removed before they ar
rived. \ temporary track was con-
ssructed around the wreck, and traffic
was not seriously delayed.
Division Surgeon Reed and a number
Of division officials from Rock Spring,
arrived at the wreck shortly after il
occurred and tok charge of the deal
and injured. The bodies Of tho dead
were removed to Rock Springs. The
mail car was the scene of the greatest
mortality.