Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-08
Majority Of Victims Were Occupants Of
Diner and Mail Cars.
INJURY TO PASSENGERS MOSTLY SLIGHT
WreOkago Takes Fire and Several Of the
Dead are 0rematsd.
CREW OF FREIGHT DISREGARD ORDERS
HAD Orders 10 wait for Four Pas
scnger Trains TO Pass and Pulled
Ont when the Third one
Arrived at siding.
DEAD AND INSURED.

DEAD AND INJURED.
Employees killed:
w. II. BUzBEE, first cook Omaha
ED kOSEN BAUM, second cook, Oakland.
JOHN LAwLEss fourth COOK, oguen or
Oakland.
J. h. PHILLIPAR, mail clerk, 81. Joseph.
ELECTRICIAN sTIGERs.
FRANK MkENNA. Umana.
ENGlNEER BRINK OF Rawlins.
BRAKEMAN L. L. SMITH of Rawlns.
+. y. PETERSON, mail clerk, Cheyenne.
| burned to death.
Employees injured:
T. ]. Smith. walter (colored), Oakland.
r. s. Mitchell, waiter (colored). Oakland.
w. ID. Parker, waiter (colored), 6lS Fiji
teenth avenue. Council Bluffs.
Ed Hurt, waiter (colored), Omaha.
Win Roriaue. third cook, San Francisco
f. A. Wheeler, dining car conductor
Andy Jordan, engineer, Rawlins
A. Williams. porter, Chicago
Oscar Peterson. fireman, Rawlins.
]. II. Alters, fireman, Rawlins; leg
broken.
c. A. shafer. mail clerk. Benton. Ia;
skull fractured.
Missing:
Passengers injured:
One man, would not give name.
]. c. Hooper, Salt Lake, sprained ankle.
NJ. c. Mccoy, Kansas City, not hurt. but
caught cold.
Mrs. A. c. Blcknell, Oakland. scratched.
Miss Edna Lissack. San Francisco.
scratched.
Mrs. Maud Riley, San Francisco, contu-
sion of right knee ano right wrist.
Mrs. G. Cook, San Francisco, bruises ON
both knees.
S. M. Hulett San Francisco, left leg con-
fused and right hand slightly cut by glass.
Mail Clerk ]. A. Newsom Of North Bend
could not be found for a time after the
wreck and was supposed to have been
under the wreckage. but he later turned
UP practically uninjured
Nine persons are dead and thirty
are injured the result Of a head
on collision bStween the Union ieaPa-
cihc's Overland Limited No. 2 and west
bound freight train at All Say, wyo.. a
station five miles west of Rock Springs.
at 342 a. m. Thursday
Much of this Information, which was
first published in an extra edition this
morning by The Bee, was given out from
Union Pacific headquarters in this city,
where the officials sent out orders upon
learning of the disaster calculated to pro-
vide every alienation for the sufferers
Fire instantly followed the collision and
the dynamo car, mail car and diner on the
Overland were almost entirely consumed.
Both engines were destroyed, the engineer
who had mistaken his orders paying the
price with his life. The bodies OF the two
mail clerks and three cooks killed were
pinioned in the wreckage and were burned
beyond recognition.
Conductor Admits Blame.
The freight had orders to wait on the
siding at All Say, a station Ave miles west
of Rock Springs. wyo., for four eastbouna
passengers to pass The train crew OF the
freight went wrong and when three pas
passenger trains had passed the freight
pulled out and mile and half west of
All Say ran into the Overland Limited.
The conductor on the freight train. Roy
Darrell. who escaped uninjured. has ac-
knowledged it was the fault OF the engineer
and himself that the accident occurred.
He said the orders were plain enough that
they were to wait until four trains had
PASSED before moving, but that either by a
mrscount or some way that has not been
figured out the train was moved out onto
the main track before the fourth train.
which was the Overland Limited. had come
along.
AS the wreck occurred six miles and
half from the state hospital. which is
located at Rock Springs. all Of the injured
were hurried there for treatment and tine
dead were held to await the arrival Of the
coroner.
A delay west of Granger had delayed the
passengers until they were following one
another and the crew had positive orders
to wait for four passenger trains to pass,
but they evidently miscounted or misun-
derstood their orders for they pulled out
when the third uassenger train had passed.
Superintendent Park OF the Union Pacific
furnished the press with all information
possible concerning the wreck and every
assistance was rendered to the injured
The wrecked train was due In Omaha
Thursday night.
The wreckage was cleared away during
the day and traflc resumed
Omaha Home Is saddened.
w. II. Buzbee, who was killed resided
with his family at lO9s Charles street, and
Ed Hurt at Twenty-seventh and Burdette.
The news of Buzbees death created pitt
ful scene at his home little niece, hear
ing OF the disaster, took a Walnut HIN
car and FASTENED TO bear the sad tidings
to her aunt. a friend requesting The Bee
not TO telephone the poor woman untli
she had heard of 1t through her relative.
Buzbee had been cook at Krug park last
summer.
T. W. Field. 4l2T lizard street. one OF
the veteran mailmen Of the Union Pacific.
knew all the mailmen In the wreck, He
says they were all young men, ranging
from "a 10 30 years. Phillipar. who was
incinerated resided at St. Joseph J. A.
NeWsom at North Bend. L. A. Peterson
at Cheyenne and c. A. shafer al Benton.
Ia.
Mr. Field got in of his last run Wednes-
day. returning on No. 2 About the time he
arrived he met and talked with a brother
OF Newsom who runs out OF Omaha He