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 and the
Mail Car Was Thrown Clear
OF All the Rest
ESCAPE WAS MOST MARVELLOUS,
Considering Speed Of Train and PUT
pose Of the Train Wreekcrs the
Outcome Is Wonderful,

Ful,hor details Of yesterday Wro!k
Oh the Rio Grande western NJ Pinto,
g,s8 niles east OF Salt. Lake so 10
confirm the story that tho disaster was
the malicious work Of two unmps who
were put on q train early N the cyc'
ming If Wednesday
II was assorted most positively by \
Messenger this morning that ho pcr'
,onaIly examined the switch aud round
that tSo Of the retaining bolts had been
drawn and the remaining ones badly
bent, This caused the rails nj this point
TO pread and the train was dItchcd \
,roW9lr was also discovered 100 yards
from the scene of the wreck, Ring IN u
tulycia
That more we're not injured ana that
homo vas killed IL said To be- a miracle,
by all those who were on the train,
Possibly the hes, and most compIw
htnsyo story Of tho terrible crash ~
told hy Mr. H. y, Berry Ut spring
ncld, Ill.,, who " resting at the Cullen
hotel here, while his wife II being
attended by the company doctor for 10
spWInHd ankle ana body bruises iu.
hlclod during the MAD scramble throuBn
lho windows of the car That was half
lIprod over
h, u, BERRY'S NARRATIVE,
Hers ~ the story ns told by Mn Bcrr,
this morning 10 the News"
"Whou the crash came there was n
regular paniC IN our ear, Women were
screaming and everybody was trying 10
set mt OF the ear nS fast MS they could,
| told my wife To Keep calm while |
laletd the window, Then I let her OUT,
tollng her not 70 drop to the grounl
Until sbc WIS hanging from the fun
length Of her arms When she did drop
yhc wont about eight feet aud sprulurd
her mike and Otherwise hurt herself Ae
soon Os | made her comfortable 7
msh,l TO help forward, Here was \
grcut comnollom The entire train had
hn 'ho track the last two cars stand.
ms ou the lies, So great was tho fo,'o
Of inc shock that the mail car WAS ~
ms ~ feet away from tho tender by
NtoII. How the clerks ana Daggp2'
men escaped without injury ~ worrying
me yet
LYING ON ms SIDE.
"Tht cmlgrnnt ear was lying on l,s
sdc with the lights gllll burning W.
expected the gas tank 10 explode at
any minute but the irAlnmon went
hight In after the injured while The con.
duCtor tllod 10 turn off the gns II WAS
20 minutes before the lights were oN.
tugulshcd N was pretty bad sight
A .sh.l.lN.,a Ill
thrown together and cut by glass Most
n them were also badly bruised from
being thrown about as the car went
over
Women were crying out IN half a
dozen languages and There was all
ln0a ~ confusion, but the men worked
nud eventually got an of them out and
mudo lhom nv comfortable ~ possible
THE TRAMP THEORY
When daylight came we started to
luok for the cause of the accident ana
tmddcrod when we SAN that had hc
engine left the track AZ the culycrt u
tow feet distant we would have had
ON uWlul wreck with u biz Hist "
ood and injured
u went over tO the switch ana there
w" That two bolts had been drawn
oui NJ The ties and the rest Of the
splNc' Noro bent ns though they had
been tempered with shortly after
wards ! WAS Informed that "A oroNbnr
l1l hcon found In u oUyort nearby II
Wal the general verdict ON the train
That Two unmps who had been put on
lho train ahead earlier In the evening
nol pnrposoly pulled the spike for re-
Nfugc,"
Mr. lorry stated that after they wero
brought into Helper everybody on the
Ndln was Rlvon n good meal but for r.
nouns previously they were without
.ol ana some Of he young passengers
suncrcd considerably,