Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-01-13
AFTERMATH
Of THE WRECK
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Conductor Frank smith Insists
That he Had Made Positive
Agreement With May.
nard
INJURED ALL
DOING WELL
Believed Engineer Allison May
Recover. Bodies Of Dead
Firemen Shipped Home
For Burial

Pile will hear that tneregwill probably
be no more deaths as the result Of yes
terday's frightful wreck at Upton,
The bodies of Mrs. Mabel Denis OF
Chicago and Mrs. Mabel Dock Of New
York. which we're brought back to the
city to be re-coffined and prepared for
burial. We're shipped ON last night,
their husbands accompanying. The
metallic coffin which contained the
remains OF Mrs Dock was bent and
twisted beyond recognition, but the
body was not seriously bruised. There
was almost nothing left of the other
coffin. The legs were broken and the
flesh was much mangled.
The body Of Fireman Gutenberg did
not reach the city TIL 7:30 last night.
II took many hours TO remove the
wreckage sufficiently to allow the
body to be extricated. One OF the
trainmen told The Optic man that the
unfortunate fellow lived for an hour
after the accident. his body almost up
right, his arms protruding through the
debris. He was not very badly burned
or crushed.
| Gutenberg was making only his sec
ond run. He was on the dead engine
some distance back on tho train, and
getting cold had gone AHEAD and TAX.
en- theg scoop fsrSn ~ CT Williams
hand and begun firing. Williams
climbed to the cab seat and Just mo-
ment after, the shock came. He
braced his feet and held his position
on the seat. Smith was thrown
through the window and fell clear OF
the wreckage. Williams time to die
had evidently not come as Gruen-
berg's action undoubtedly saved Wal
liams' life.
Gutenberg was a member Of the
firemen's lodge at Ration and carried
some insurance In favor OF his aged
mother. It is said he has a wife who
Ia proprietress OF the Liberty Lunch
rooms at DuQuesne. Iowa His body
will be shipped tonight for burial at
the old home in Boyd. Iowa.
Cochran was unmarried. The only
relative heard from Is brother who
is on his way from Melvin. Kans.
The dead fireman OF the flyer was
powerful fellow weighing close to
200 pounds. His body was frightfully
burned with the scalding steam
The German barber's remains will
be shipped to his home on Melrose
street, Chicago
Conductor Oders escape from death
was miraculous. For the first time
since he had been running on the
flyer the conductor was not In the
place In the compartment car b. was
wont 10 occupy at thar time In the
morning IF the wreck had occurred
two hours later, the compartment car
would have been full OF men and the
fatalities must have been many.
Among the passengers we're Rob-
err Oxnard, son of the San Francisco
'ear magnate and party. They were
uniniured. Another distinguished pas.
senger was Harry S. New, the noted
indianapolis statesman and newspa.
per man n
Cause OF Wreck.
Il was impossible to find Conductor
Maynard, but several Of the men who
were on either one or the other OF
The freight trains say that Conductor
Smith did talk TO Conductor Maynard
and also 70 the rear brakeman OF the
head freight But they say that The
understanding was that Maynard
should flag the flyer II he observed
Smiths headlight behind him. Ac.
cording 10 the information furnished,
Smith was not sure whether he would
have time TO get started to follow or
not. but finding he could do so with
safety II all went well. he did make
the start. His sand pipes gave
trouble and he got 80 far behind that
Maynard could not see the headlight