Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-08
TEN KILLED IN
RAILROAD WRECK
TRAINS COLLIDE ON UNION
PACIFIC
East Bound Overland Limited and a
Freight Come Together Head
on--Five Bodies Are
lncinerated
BY Associated Press.

BY Assocla tod Press
OMAHA, Ncb., Dec. ten persons
We're killed and 10 injured. II of them
railroad employees and passengers. by
a hoad-on collision ON the Union Pacific
railroad between n freight train and
Overland Limited passenger train No.
2, eastbound. miles west of Rock
Springs, Wyoming, at o'clock this
morning. Five of the bodies were
burned beyond recognition i'm u fire
which destroyed the mail car. the com
hination dynamo ba ggage car, and the
dining car. Two of these are known to
be mail clerks and the other three were
cooks who We're sleeping i'm the diner
Following is n list of the dead and
injured:
Tho dead.
FIRST COOK JAMES BISBEE
Omaha
SECOND COOK ED RoSENBAUM,
Oakland. Cal.
ELECTRICIAN STIGERS. Omaha.
ASSIST. ELECTRICIAN FRANK
M'KENNA, Omaha.
FOURTH COOK JOHN LAWLEsS,
Omaha.
MAIL CLERK j. A. NEwsoM,
Cheyenne.
MAIL CLERK ]. F. PHILIPPAR,
Cheyenne.
MAIL CLERK FRANK PETER
SON, Cheyenne.
ENGINEER BRINK of Rawlins.
BRAKEMAN SMITH of Rawlins.
Employees injured;
f.. t. Smith, freight brakeman.
II. S. Mitchell, waiter. Oakland, Cal.
w. u. Parker Wuitpr Omaha.
Ed Hart. waiter. Omaha.'
VIM. Rorique, third cook, Omaha.
j.. T.. Wheeler, dining car conductor.
Andy Jordan, passenger engineer, Sc
riously but not dangerously hurt.
A. Williams. porter, Chicago.
Oscar Peterson, freight fireman, Raw
Inns: slight.
j. II. Alters, fireman, leg broken.
- Shafer, mail clerk; skull frac-
tured.
Passengers injured:
One man, name not given.
]. G. Hooper, Salt Lake; sprained
ankle
NJ. c. Mccoy, Kansas City. slightly
injured.
Mrs. a. c. Bicknell, Oakland, Cal;
slightly injured.
Miss Edna Lssak, San Francisco;
slight injuries.
y.
fusion of right knee and wrist.
Mrs. G.. Cook. San Francisco; bruised
on both knees.
S. NJ. Hulett, San Francisco: leg con-
fused and hand slightly cut by glass.
The mail and dining cars We're the
scene of the greater fatalities, three
mail clerks and three cooks being
killed outright and another clerk be-
ing perhaps fatally injured, his skull
being fractured. Electrician Stigers
and his assistant Frank NICK emma were
in the baggage car Immediately behind
the engine, and were also killed out
right.
Confused Their Orders
From the Union Pacific it is officially
announced that the wreck was caused
by the engineer and conductor of the
freight confusing their orders. They
had received orders to meet four pas
senger trains, the last of which was
the Overland Limited, at Ahsay, a
siding miles west of Rock Springs.
The freight took the siding and when
three of the passenger trains, all of
which We're running close together, had
passed Ahsay the freight started west
without waiting for the Overland Linn
tied. This latter train and the freight
came together head-on, one and half
miles west of Ahsay. Engineer Brink
of the freight, is among the killed, and
his fireman, Oscar Peterson, was Sc
riously injured. Conductor Roy Dar-
rell of the freight. admitted that he
had become confused. thinking that all
the trains which he expected to meet
at Ahsay had passed.
Fortunately the wreck occurred
within a short distance of the Wyoming
state hospital which is located near
Rock Springs. The injured We're all
removed to that institution.
The two engines, the diner baggage
and mail cars, were completely wrecked
and took fire Immediately following the
wreck. being completely destroyed. Two
mail clerks and the three cooks were
pinioned beneath the cars in which
they We're employed and their bodies.
incinerated beyond Identification, were
later removed from the wreck. The
bodies of the other employees killed
We're removed before the fire reached
them.
The wreck was cleared away early In
the afternoon and the traffic was re-
sumed. The injured passengers were
all left at the Wyoming state hospital
while those who We're able to proceed
were taken east on a special train
made up of the uniniured cars of the
limited train and baggage cars picked
up at Rock Springs. The train is eX-
pected to arrive in Omaha Friday af-
ternoon.
The Union Pacific has done every
thing i'm it's power to relieve the suffer-
ings of the injured and care for the
dead The latter will be shipped to the
points whore they resided,