, 1905-12-08

Cheyenne, Wyo., Dec. 81. A. New
son of Chey enne, the mail clerk ON the
Overland Limited, wrecked near Rock
Springs, Wyo., yesterday morning, was
found hat afternoon pinned in he
wreckage of his a and, miraculous
to the %rescuers, uninjured. Newson,
wedged in a space barely sufficient for
his body, had remained a prisoner, but
could not make himself heard through
the mass of wreckage piled oyer and
around him.
Many deeds of heroism and daring
are reported from the scene of the
awful railroad horror, n many acts
of self-sacri6ce and generosity have
been noted. Wealthy and w~ell-dressed
men and ome who were in the rear
sleepsrs came nobly to the assistance
of the injured, donating their clean
linen to be used as bandages in roughly
dressing the wounds until the arrival
Of the surgeons. The weather was
bitter cold, but there was little suffer
ing from the cold, for burning wreck,
age, which was in reality a funeral
pyre, and the hurrying to and fro to
assist the injured kept everybody
was so intense that passengers had to
leave the two Pullmans closest to the
wreckage.
The dead victims of the wreck were
taken back to Green River, and eight
of the injured, whose injuries were SO
serious as to require hospital atten-
the Wyoming general hospital at Rock
Springs. The surgeons are of the
opinion that with one, n possibly
two, exceptions none of the injured
will die. Hurried examinations were
made of the victims wounds at the
| scene of the wreck. Some of the in
jured were covered with dirt, and the
wounds were filled with dirt and spin
ters. The unfortunate enginemen who
met death in their locomotives were
horribly burned by escaping steam.
The wreck is one of the worst in the
history of the Union Pacific railroad.
In point of killed and injured, it was
not as bad as the AZusa wreck of a
year ago, but fire entered into the
catastrophe at Wilkins, adding horror
to horror and magnifying the calamity
The east bound Flyer was running
was giving his train a full lead of
| steam in an effort to ecover part of
the lost time. 1t is estimated that the
train was covering fully seventy miles
an hour when the collision occurred.
The freight was carrying Pacific coast
merchandise, part of which was of a
perishable nature. Naturally it was
being put through as rapidly as pos
sible and was also blowing along at a
high rate of speed when the disaster
occurred. If Engineer Brink of the
freight erred, the officials here say, it
was probably due to his desire to move
his train over the division as rapidly
as possible.
Division Surgeon Reed and a mum
Der of division officials from Rock
Springs arrived at the wreck shortly
after it occurred and took charge OF
the dead and injured. The mail car
was the scene of greatest mortality
In this car four clerks were working
when the crash came. Two of then
were killed outright, and one, Shafer
was probably fatally hurt.
Mail Clerk J. F. Phillipar, it is un
derstood, came from st. Joseph, Mo.
originally, but his parents are living
at Grand Island, Neb. He leaves
wife and two children. Last spring, a
the time the investigation was started
against the insurance companies, he
cancelled a policy which he held il
one of the old line companies.
U. A. Anderson was married ant
leaves a widow and three children il
Cheyenne. By an error, Anderson
name appears in the list of dead as q
A. Peterson.
w. L. Park, general superintendent
of the Union Pacific railroad, stated a
Omaha that Conductor Roy Darrell
and Engineer Brink were entirely re
sponsible for the wreck, and that Con
ductor Darrell has admitted that h
became confused a. to the number o
trains that had passed Ahsay.
Nothing remains of the dining cal
buffet. baggage and dynamo and mai
cars but the wheels and iron rods
Every piece of mail in the mail ca
was destroyed by the flames, togethe
with the thousands of dollars wort
| e ,,orobapdisa IN tha freight train