The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-21
THIRTY-0NE ARE DEAD
AND SCORES INJURED
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car L was in was undamaged and
seeking the quickest exit TO the open
air, [ jumped through the window TO
the ground. l found my sister several
cars ahead, uninjured. but my mother
was standing, supported by couple of
men, with her head and her hands
covered with blood. Father was sit
ting inside the window of one of the
forward cars, his right arm and shout
der free and leaning outside the WIN
dow, but his left hand caught fast
where the seats had jammed together
IN the car 1t took three or four min
utes to get him free"
Jay Eddy, a 20-year-old young man
from IOnia. had horrifying expe-
rience. He was sitting in a seat with
his mother, and he regained his senses
after the crash she lay dead beside
him.
They were in the first car of the
train, and young Eddy said that he
could see the freight approaching as
the excursion train swung around the
curve.
Agonizing Discovery.
The next moment the trains came
together with a horrible crash" he said
I was soaked with water from the
tender of the engine, which was torn
to pieces. The air was full of dying
objects and terrible noises. When ]
regained my senses l was pinned in
the wreck. / looked around for my
mother, and there she was dead. One
of her arms was cut off and lay a cOu-
pie of feet away, and she was hOrri-
bly, mangled. ! managed to release
myself and dragged my poor mother
out of the wreck"
Eddy pulled his mothers body to the
hn nj Of he h, :
with an open umbrella. The shock
and horror of his mothers death had
driven him nearly frantic when ne was
first noticed by party of rescuers.
Escape Of a Girl.
Miss Mamie SpeckIn of Ionia was
sitting in the rear of a coach in the
middle of the train. The shock of the
collision threw her to the floor and
piled over her a covering of cushions
and loose articles swept from the for
ward end. Screaming in her dark
prison and unable to realize what had
occurred, the girl remained for some
time pinned in until rescuers heard
her cries and dug her out unintured.
One of the passengers who jumped
from a window of the rear coach after
the collision almost alighted upon En-
gineer Alvord of the passenger train
VINO mad leaped from his engine and
sat down on the bank, watch in hand
trying to learn from it whether any
blame for the mistake which has cost
so heavily rested with him.
The crash of the colliding trains was
heard for a great distance uD ano
down the tracks, and many farmers
near by realizing that a tragedy haC
occurred, hurried from their homes
with bedding, cloth for bandages and
stimulants. They Joined in the rescue
work, while physicians hurried to the
scene from all the neighboring towns
Numbers of the uninjured women pas
sengers tore strips from their clothing
the help bandage up the wounds of the
suffering persons before the physician,
arrived on the relief trains.
Two more lives were lost tonight a:
an indirect result of the Pere Marquette
wreck Daniel Rummel, a foreman Of
the wrecking gang, was killed by {
switch engine in the yards at Ply
mouth and a member Of the wreckinE
crew was crushed to death while a.
work at the scene of the wreck. The
tracks were cleared of wreckage a
1890 tonight.