Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-29
Coroner Taking Preliminary Tes-
timony to Determine it But
Nothing is Determined.
DEAD NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE.
Eight Of the Injured May Dle---.AIr
Have Beer Taken to Les An.
geIes on Special Train.

east Cotton yards late Yesterday after
noon "a dead bodies lie today In a local
undertaking establishment, eight terri
bIy injured are in the Cotton hospital
and more than so others whose hurts
We're less serious, have bcnn taken 10
Los Angeles OF special trains. The
dead We're all passengers on the
wrecked tram with one exception.
Following Is a list or The dead
Albert w. SHE. mail clerk. 555 Ruth
avenue. Los Angeles
George l.. sharp, Muucle, Ind.
~ |. walters, Sacramento, Cal.
southern Pacific fireman who was
passenger on the tram
Twenty Italians from New York and
NsW Orleans, on their way to San
francisco One Italian woman WAS
killed
ut TIE seriously injured those now
i'll the Cotton hospital are In the worst
cohultloh. Ope OF them Is sure 10 die.
and several OF them may not survive.
walters, Sacramento fireman VIEWS
the only one OF the injured to die last
hlght' Among the injured In the hos
pital are two boys, and years OF age,
respectively, Sons Of Mrs r. Glacona,
tine only woman Killed The woman
and her children were on their way to
49, f'NF7FAiSp tN ThllAN ",
The exact cause of the wreck wall
not he determined until the coruuers
inquest " concluded. The train was
running fully ~ miles an hour at the
Time IL struck the open switch The
South ern Pacific is Sill blocked at
the point ot the crash. Wreclring
crews are AZ work removing the Aebris
OF me wrecked cars bur the line will
likely not DE cleared before night
Ten Of the ~ coaches OF the train
| were derailed ana three of them were
smashed completely. Italians, who
numbered nearly 10O were In tive old
emigranI cars and these cars were
I,Serally crushed into lSIndline wood
| Ine passengers in the Pullrnans esca p-
cd injury
CORONER INVESTIGATING.
At O'Clock this morning Coroner
van wye commenced to take prellrn-
mary testimony from the SWITCHING
crew 10 ascertain whether they had
peen held ON complaints to which he
mas sworn. for resp cnsibllity for the
wreck OF the Southern Pacific over
land train n~ar Cotton. Thursday.
Swlscn Foreman Alyord was frst 10
4 make statement He explained that
When he came to work in The m orrine
nc saw That the first section of the
| chalked up On the board as eight
hours late. When he returned from
ms lunch he Inspected the boa ri and
tcundsit silent as to No. 9 ana as the
elsht-hours limit had expired he con-
Sluoed the Overland had gone tn rough
during his absence. This error was
not discovered by him until he heard
mis- engineer whlstlfne frantic signal
a. the switch TO the overland 10 stop,
The overland was ther half way across
the Santa Ana bridge. IT was impos-
slble To get back and close the switch
rnf he 4 4,
In this statement Alvord is corro-
porated by his swtchman. He evil
dentiy means 10 be understood az plac-
ing responsibility, 81 part OF II, on the
operator whose duty II WAS to keep she
time board checked as guide to switch.
men. Tho coroner latter stated that
under the rules OF the company, a
switch foreman and his men seem 10
have good defense That their frs
order In the morning was that the
overland train would arrive at l.45
O'Clock. eight hours late. when In fact
Il WAS 10 hours behind that the oper-
ator should have notified the switching
crew, who were FAR removed from an
Geographic communication. further
more, that the rules prohibiting trains
over 10 minutes late entering tho yard
limits without having their train under
complete control and the yard lin
al Cotton arc over q mile east of wi
the accident occurred
RELIEF TRAINS RETURN.
Les Angeles, March ?a,--The tirsG Sec
ton " the relief train To bring some
OF the injured from the wreck 10 Los
Angeles reached the Arcade depot this
morning shortly before l O'clock.
When the train pulled into the sta,
ton, the crowd tried to burst through
tho gates and extra policemen were
necessary to hold them la restraint.
When the train arrived tho tirst bag
gage car was given over TO four cots
continuing foul OF the most seriously
Injured. Then from the second car
seven wounded were taken These were
able 10 walk With the assistance OF
friends. From the rest Of the train
hohblsd and limped score or more
OF foreigners. Carriages had been de-
tsined by the Southern Pacific cont
pany and the injured were sent either
To their homes or 10 hospitals
The members OF the Florence ROD
erts Theatrical company, with the cS-
ception al three, escaped injury,
Shortly after the arrival OF the first
relief train = second rectlon arrived
But few OF the injured were on this,
The remaining cabs ware called into
use TO assist those who had been mere.
ly shaken up TO their hpmes. OF 10 ho-
tells.
The death Of George g sharp, q Nun.
Wv IIlAlH NAtN1i ilAo NaiN lNsAaAlNl9
crushed out Was particularly pa
thetic. Sharp WIS on his way to this
olty 10 meet his wife, from whom ~
had become estranged yhree years ago.
He had formerly resided here but when
he ana his wife separated he returned
% Indiana, Recently he notified
friends here that he was coming to los
Angeles 20 SEQ his wife and secure
reconciliation with her Sharp did nor
know that fhe had secured divorce
from him mare than year ago anil
had remarked, and WAS speeding west
ward, happy In the Thought OF again
meeting his wife, Friends OF the
couple had yesterday gone To the depot
10 meet SHARP when no arrived and
break this news 10 him They reached
there only to learn Of the wreck and Or
Sharp's death
w SHE, the dead mail clerk, too, met
death under sorrowtul circumstances,
For years his wife had pleaded with
him 10 quit the road because OF the
eYer-present danger and but few days
ago he had promised to da 80. He had
written letter 10 hls wlfe'S father IN
SthndsyIlie, Ohio telling ghe latter OF
his intNnllons 10 retire and apprisnH
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