The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-03
DEATH CURVE CLAIMS
MORE FOR VICTIMS

wards by the distracted husband. She
died in fifteen minutes and the babe
lived an hour.
How Mrs Young and her children
escaped instant death is miraculous.
The mother and her youngest child were
taken from the debris in an unconscious
condition and taken into the station,
where they were rendered every med
icaI assistance possible. The six-year-
old daughter, Rita. was thrown from
/ the car at the feet of Frandson. who
had just been an eyewitness of the an
initiation of his family. The little one
clothing was burning and he put out the
flames and handed her to a bystander,
who took her into the station,
When the big engine Dlowed through
1t carried the cattle car with il and the
helpless animals were thrown against
the boiler and -scaIded by the escaping
steam. Their cries were agoniZing and
finally gun was procured and nine of
them shot. OF the total of forty-one in
the car twelve were saved. They were
the property of E. T. Bulge, of Paris,
Idaho, who was also on the train.
The gasoline tank cars threatened for
a time to add another horror to the dis
aster. One was thrown six rods east,
across the firebox of the wrecked en-
CINE. Some of the trainmen had the
presence of mind to plug" the opening
in this tank before it had chance to
explode and thus probably saved sew
eral lives.
The engine is a total wreck, the fire
box being on one side of the track and
the tender on the other. The total
monetary loss TO the company will
reach SIS. 900.
Blame Not Determined.
The blame for the wreck has not been
fixed, although it seems that Conductor
Quinn and Engineer Nepperly of No.
2S may have been careless. The two
trains were running south and the sta
ton agent at Clearfield, five miles
north, reported that No. % passed there
at 11:2S a. N. and No. So at As a. m.
This gave No. t~27 seventeen minutes
Roadway. The minimum headway al
lowed is ten minutes. and at Clearfield
both trains were running within the
rules of the company and had clear
track. Just before arriving at Layton
the crew of No. % discovered the hot
box and slowed down. According to an
eyewitness, Quinn and Hepperly went
back to the car carrying the steam
shovel, which was well up at the head
of the train and not injured. Here they
stopped ana began an examination
Hearing the rumble of the approaching
No. SIS, Quinn seized flag and ran
frantically towards the rear. There is
a curve about 300 yards north of the
station and a heavy grade. Quinn could
get only about zoo feet back of his
train before No. Sc was upon him, and
then all efforts to stop it were in vain.
Standing by the side of the track, he
could look back and see the work OF
death without having power to stop it.
AS there were seventeen minutes inter-
vening at ClearfieId, and allowing
seven minutes delay between that
point and Layton, by reason of the hot
box and the additional speed of No. SO,
it would appear that the crew of No. %
had ample time to warn the approach
ing train if they had followed the rule
always observed of sending a flagmaR
back as soon as train stops. Quinn
lives at 65S West North Temple street
and Hepperly at $50 North Second West
street.
An official investigation will be made
10 determine the exact cause of the dis
aSter.
The track was not cleared until late
last night, and before that time the
Short Line trains were sent in over the
Rio GTande. tracks.
As soon as the news of the wreck
reached Salt Lake a special train was
fitted up, on which were Drs. Pinker-