Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-23
HAD Been PUT Off A TRAIN.
All the Cars LEFT the Track aud the
Mail Car Was Thrown Clear
OF All the Rest
ESCAPE WAS MOST MARVELLOUS.
Considering Speed Of Train and Pur
pose Of the Train wreckcrs the
Outcome Is Wonderful, \

FURTHER details of ycriorday's Wrogk
M tho RIO Drande Western at Pinto,
.!53 miles cas-, Of Hnl,. Lake, 10 To
confirm the story tina, tho disaster was
the malicious work Of two lrumps who
were nut oif n train early In the oyos
ming II Wednesday,
II was asserted most positively by \
passenger this morning that he per.
gonaly examined the switch und found
that two of tho retaining bolts had been
drawn md the remaining ones badly
bent. This caused the rails al this point
TO spread aud the train was dItchcd, A
,row5nr was also discovered 100 yards
from the scene Of The wreck, lying IN Il
,ulvelt
THAT more were not injured ana that
none VAS killed In said to be a miracle,
by all ihoso who were ON the train,
Possibly the best and most comprv.
hcnslvo story of the terrible crash ~
told by Mr. II, y, Berry of springs
nold, H., who II resting at the Cullen
hotel here, while his wife " bolns
attended by the company doctor for "A
fprWnpd ankle ana body bruises IN
lllctcd during the mad scramble thlouBh
the windows Of the cav that was half
TIPPED over,
r. u, BERRY's NARRATIVE,
Here IL the story us void by Mr. berry
this morning to the News
when the crash came there was n
regular panic IN our ear, Women were
screaming and everybody was trying 20
set mi of the ear M fast ns they could
! told my wife Ia koop calm while |
raised the window, Then let her OUT
telling her not 90 drop to the arounl
until che WAS hanging from the full
length of her arms, When eho did drop
she won't about eight feet und sprainod
her nklo aud otherwise hurt herself AS
soon M | mudo her comfortable 7
rushed TO help forward, Here was 4
great comnotIon The entire train had
lolt The track, the last two cars stand
ipg on iho Ties, So great was the force
of the shock that the mail ear was ".
Ng 20 feet away from the tender ny
Nfolf How the clerks ana baggage
men escaped without injury " worrylng
me yet,
LYING on ITs SIDE
"rho emIgrnnt car WAS lying on i,s
sdc with the lights sllll burning We
expected the gas tank 10 explode at
nny minute but the trninmcn went
right In after the injured while the con-
ductor tried to turn OF the GAS II WAS
20 minuics before the lights We're OK.
tlngulshed |, was q pretty bad sight,
Women, children and men were all
thrown together aud cut by glass Most
Of them were also badly bruised from
being thrown about as the car went
over
Women were crying out In half
dozen languages ana there was all
Xmas " confusion, but the men worked
nud eventually got all Of them out and
mtdo them nv comfortable nv possible.
THE TRAMP THEORY
when daylight came we started to
lnok for the cause of the accident and
rhuddorod when we saw that had tho
engine left the track at the culycn u
tow feet distant We would have had
an awful wreck with a blk list Of
dead and injured
Il went over to the switch and lhero
faW that two bolts had been drawn
uut of the tIes and the rest of tho
splkes were bent as though they had
been inmpcrod with shortly after.
wards ! was Informed that u crOwbar
lnl boon found IN culyort nearby II
Wna the general verdict on the train
mat two lromps who had been put OF
lhc train 0hcnd earlier IN the evening
ma pnrposcly pulled the spike for re.
NCngo.'
Mr. Berry stated that after they were
brought into Helper everybody ON tho
Nhln was ven good meal but for Il
Iours previously they were without
food and some OF the young passengers
suffered considerably,