The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-07

CHARLES BRlCRLE, conductor pas
senger.
]. A. JESSUP. express messenger.
FOSTER SENEGAL, merchant OF Ellis
ton.
Brakeman Badly Hurt.
Brakeman Edward Brown is seriously
injured but an examination shows not
fatally. None of the passengers who es-
tured.
The story of the accident shows 1t to-
have been most remarkable. The pas
seSEer train passed through Austin about
eight miles west OF Helena. on time Fol
lowing II was a long freight train made
up OF box and fiat cars loaded with lurl-
Der and shingles. At Austin the engine
was uncoupled from the freight to take
water and the train was left standing
on the track There Is a steep grade east
OF Austin and by some means the freight
train got started down the hill.
How 1t Happened.
The passenger train. when It arrived at
the Montana Central crossing. stopped
when the engineer heard sound behind
him that warned him of danger. He
started his train, but IL had gone but
few feet when the freight crashed into
the rear car. There were but two cars In
the train, a combination express and mail
and passenger car and a day coach. The
TWO cars were smashed and thrown Into
the ditch. The engine on the passenger
became uncoupled from the cars but did
not leave the track and Engineer Petty
managed TO Keep ahead OF the flying
freight The freight went probably so
feet when It, too. went off the track. In
a few minutes fire started and for hours
the cars and the lumber burned flereely.
Pinned Under Wreck.
The crash of the collision was heard by
persons living In the vicinity who imme-
dlatclS started for the wreck. When they
got there an awful scene met their gaze.
The combination car was on fire and
pinned under mass OF wTeckags was
Jessup He WAS conscious and heroic ef-
forts were made TO release him from his
the rescuers had to give mp the task
Jessup, still conscious cried 1T Is hard
to lie here and burn 10 death"
He struggled to release himself as the
fire took hold oC his limbs, but the effort
was fruItlcSs and after a few screams of
agony UncouSciCusncsS came to him. In
the meantime the few uninjurcd pas
seneers eNerted themselves TO rescue
those who wre unable 10 help themselves.
The Work of Rescue.
j S. Robinson of Missoula was found
beyond human aid. lying under n car y
short distance away Charles Brlckle. the
conductor was found, He also was dead,
and his body was taken out OF the range
of the fire.
The sight that met the gaze of those
tlTst on the ground was an awful one
Exposed TO full view with blazing shingles
all about him and his bed n mass of red
hot Goals was the body OF an unknown
man. 1t was slowly consumed until all
that was left was the skull and out
stretched were two Stumps that few
hours before had been arms 1t Is not
thought It will be difficult to establish the
identity OF the two unfoUtunatcs who are
supposed 10 have been consumed in the
fire.
May Be More Dead.
There are, according to the passengers.
supposed to have been eight passengers
on the train II there were eight two are
stlll unaccounted for. Brakeman Brown
said he was not sure whether there were
seven or eight
What made il difficult to rescue those
pInioned beneath the wreckaEc Was the
fact that when the freight crashed
through the passenger, car OF shingles
became detached from the freight train
and fell on the combination coach The
shingles caught fire almost Immediately
and made such hot FIRE and burned so
rapidly that nothing cOud be done to save