The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-13
connected pipes in the kitchen of the
diner.
WreckaGe Caught Fire

escaped instant death by the first inn
pact were crushed by the rear coaches
hurled upon the wrcckage. Others, pin
ioned in the debris, were roasted alive.
The wreckage caught fire from the Goals
OF the engine, but was extlnguished IN
few minutes by the passengers who es'
capped injury.
Engineer Frank Champlain was pitch
cd with his cab twenty feet beyond
the engine and got up and ran three"
quarters of mile, seeking help, be-
fore he discovered that his arm was
broken and that he was severely
man standing behind his wife in
the baggage car was hurled through a
huge rent in the roof and allghted in
soft and yielding sand almost unlnjured.
The woman was forced through the
floors and wreckers had to lift tons Of
baggage 10 get her body ont,
Dining Car a Death Trap.
But the uufortunates who occupied
every seat in the dining car were caught
in veritable death trap. Only two of
the nine men of the diner crew are num-
hered among the dead. The remainder,
though cooped mp in the narrow kitchen
and pantry. sustained but few cuts
and bruises,
a last call for luncheon had Just
sounded a few minutes before the dis
aster.
Raiah Temple of Reading occupied
the last car on the train and were the
last ones to go forward to the diner
The car was filed almost entirely with
Reading people when the wreck oc-
Cured. An instant after the smash
those who were not rendered insensible
or otherwise incapacitatod by the ter
rife impact, jumped from the train
to render aid, but the grewsome scene
before them untitled MANY for the work
they had TO do in the long hours before
relief arrived.
Frightened women, peeTing through
the windows OF the unchanged sleeper,
tainted when they saw tho bodies of
their friends strewn along the road
side, blood from the gaping wounds
staiuing the sand drifts all about. Men
who toiled hard at the task of rescue
collapsed completely, many of them be-
fore the work was finished.
Body Driven Through Floor
Mrs. John W. Cutler OF Binghampton,
whose husband is also among the
killed, was in the baggage car at the
time OF the crash, where she had gone
to rearrange her trunk Her body was
driven literally through tho floor and
the wrecked car had to be lacked up
before il could be released.
Mrs. Fred Grummoud of Bing-
hampton. was with her, and also went
down under the tons OF baggage and
broken timber. When rescuers burrow-
ed their way TO where the two women
lay the living one reached ont and
grasped the feet of one of the men and
shouted;
"In not let go until you get me
out -
Then gust Of scslding steam envel-
oped her, and she was terribly burned
She was rescued alive, however and
was among those taken to San Luis
Obispo.
When Miss Cora Young OF CIeve-
land, was taken from the shattered
diner, she was still living, but fright
fully injured, Her entire body had been
showered with boiling water, and when
women friends removed her corsets. the
imprint of the stays was left deep in
the scalded flesh.
There were countless deeds of cour-
age and heroic self -abnegatiou. A. D. |
Hagcrman, OF Reading. refused the
aid of his brother mobiles after they
had dragged him, fatally hurt, from
the wreck,
81 am dying" he said; go help
the women.
Died Just After Rescue.
Sander Deabald of Cleveland, |
worked heroically, but unavailing to
save the lives of two women pinned |
beneath the diner. The flames had |
broken out amid the wreckage and |
were burning all about the PROSTATE |
forms of the women. Burrowing his |
way down into the smouldering, splin-
tered wreck. Deabald, with hose
connection, spouted water from an ad. |
lacent tank and extinguished the
hames. Then he reached down and
after cutting away tho broken timbers
that held her fast, took Mrs William
w. Essick of Reading from The ruins.
She was begging piteously for relief |
when Deabald reached her. AS he |
llfted her from the wreckage stream
of boiling water poured over her, scar
ing her body terribly. Women passen-
gers sought to remove her upper gar |
ments, but tainted when the flesh came
of with the clothing She expired aft
er few minutes after being carried |
out on the sand, and Deabald was |
forced back into the slecpers, unable |
longer to endure the narrowing scenes
on every hand.
''1t was the most horrible sight [
ever laid eyes on he said. "When.
ever / touched her the print of the
fingers remained In the almost fluid
flesh.
Henry j. Fisher of Cleveland went
under protest with his wife and her
daughter, Miss Cora Young. and Mrs,
John w. Cutter to the baggage car.
The three women were killed and he |
escaped almost unharmed from the
wreck of the baggage coach. Today,
wandering dazedIy about the streets
Fisher asks mournfully: Glow did |
escape? Why should they die and I
live2''
Smiled as He Faced Death,
". D. Wasson Of Buffalo was eating
at corner table. He was within six
inches Of the hot water tanks. When !
the rescuers ncared him he smiled en-.
couragingly. Dragged from under the
range of the scalding steam, he mur.
INJURED, "Thank Cod and died. His |
wife and their tbree-yearold baby
were with him on the train and cs.
capped injury.
Charles NJ. Tyson of Buffalo is i'll
at the Potter hotel here completely
unnerved by his experiences. He faced
death many times, dragging from the
debris, the bodies of friends. He final
ly cOllaDSe1 uu6er tho ctrai,