The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-01-15
TRAIN WRECKED
WEST OF OGDEN
Engineer NeeSIey Killed and
Two Mail Clerks Die of
Injuries.
SEVERAL OTHERS INJURED
ACCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR
MONTICELLO, NEW.
(special 10 ~ IIoraldN

OSden, Jan. 14.-Fast mail train No. 10
eastbound. on the Southern Pacific. was
deraiied at CARNEY. fifteen miles east OF
Montello, New, at O'Clock this morning.
he train left the track on sharp curve
"hlle running at a high rate OF speed. The
engine and six cars were thrown down an
ehDankment, the locomotive being turned
completely over. Two Pullman sleeperS
remained on the track. The engineer was
Killed instantly and twenty-one persons
were injured, one fatally.
Dead.
Frank Neesley, engineer. ogden
-. n Schuyler. mail clerk. Ogden.
H. -. q. Alexander. mail clerk San Fran
Injured.
sc e. L Ware, fireman. Ogden. badly
Z. Fl. Wilson, colored. porter. Ogden in
Jured internally, probably fatally.
). J. Reeve, brakeman, Ogden face c,it.
y: IL LAWN, brakeman. Ogden. left side
bruised eUO"' DouS
F; c. Flanders. dining car conductor.
ogden. slightly bruised ''' >
y. l.. Littlepage. colOred waiter Ocde,,
cut about hands and face
,. A. Bills. cOlored. chef. Ogden hands
cut and scaided.
c,i r. Bradshaw. colored. cook ogden. leg
Lewis Campbell, colored. third cook
C0ipurn, Va, scalded slightly
c,, W ILL r; Martin, colored. waiter, Ogden
Charles NJ. Mcbride Pullman co,.5,,o,,,
ogden, side bruised W
Jured internally. w. III
"a, a. ;. Grant. chief mail clerk. san Fran
CISCO back sprained.
II: q. Black, mail clerk San Francisco
bruised about body
j. j. Burke mail clerk. San Francisco.
w. n. Watts. passenger. manager Utah
slightly A~' Nu'
Mrs Rose /. GRAY D1sSanocr Do,,v.ar
bruised. i''Vi'
G. II. Chalmers. passenger. MinneaDolis
back and ankle sDrained
Eugene ID. Nygent, Passenger En-
NETT, Ida, ankle bruised.
Running at High Speed.
No. 10 was running three hours Io,a and
was running probably sixty miles an bo,ir,
Ihere is a slight down grade and n sharp
curve where the accident occurred ,
hether the accident was caused by
broken rail or a broken flange on the
wheels OF the LOCOMOTIVES viii not ha
known until after Il thorough investiea-
uon 10y the railroad people
Without warning, the engine shot from
dining car and two of the four Pullman
cars behind IT. The coupling between the
second ard third Pullman sleepers gave
way and the two rear cars remained on
the track. The engine turned turtle and
Engineer Neesley was pinioned beneath
1t and killed Instantly. The cars were
piled up in a mass of tangled iron. broken
glass and wood. That more were not killed
seems little short Of a miracle.
Few Passengers Aboard.
There were but seven passengers on the
train. or these r. II. Nickerson and wife
of Boston and J. j. Barker and son OF
Ogden. escaped injury. Had the train
been loaded with human freight rs is
usual with trains over this route the list
of dead would have been appalling
Engineer Neesley was a regular freight
engineer and was used as an extra pas
senger man. lie was about 20 years of
age. and had considerable experience in
handling passenger trains. but this is the
first time he took out the fast mail. He
resided with his wife at 2S23 Lincoln ave
nue. in this city. Frank Young. the regu-
lar engineer running on No 10, laid of
from work for one trip. II was this stroke
of fate that saved him from the death
suffered by Neesley.