Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-08
o.,rA rE NEGLIGENCE
 ' CAUSES LIMITED WRECK
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o, caused the disastrous wreck of "c,iifornia Limited near winslow .aoJ,y night, and that the company is rable 70 heavy damages when suit is ..,,,bt by the relatives of the three ..n killed in the tragedy, and the thir. ,s n, more passengers seriously injured, !. tbe opinion of Attorney A. c. Spin. ss, ,f Pi,tsburg, G passenger on the ll f,,cd train who arrived In Prescott tonight
 Attorney Spindler says that the rails .., ,ocks of the culvert wore not warm ,hen examined immediately after the .s,idept, indicating that the culvert lad been burned severAl hours before .;,hout being discovered. Evidently nete was no patrol of the track Sun. say. In his opinion no trackwslker lad been at the scene of the accident ,o, n, least fourteen hours before the engine of the limited, running at the a,e of forty.Hve miles an hour, buried Itself in the opposite bank eight feet deep. hurling the combination mail car and smoker and dining car from the track. smashing both to pieces.
 "Thc engineer and fireman were lit. ,raly cut 10 pieces," Attorney Spin. Aer aaid. "Tbeir bodies wer not re. covered from the wreckaRe until after aaylight Monday morning. The fire mans body was taken out in four pieces, being torn limb from limb. The sght of the engineers remains were 6,,le less horrifying. His body wa, not as badly torn as the Areman's but < appeared that overy bone in hi: frame was crushed to Q jelly.
 "Mr. Partridge, of California, wal killed outright in the baggage com par,men, where he was feeding hi, dogs when the wreck occurred. Th' dogs were extricated from the wreck age unharmed after daylight, both es eaping without q scratch.
 "A Mir. Reynolds, proprietor of q curio store in Albuquerque, New Mex leo. was pinned in the wreckage. H' vas taken out after three hours oi aard work uninjured. He was lyinl immediately over tho dead body of Par fridge. His form could be plainly seer by the light of bonfires that were start ed immediately after the accident |, furnish light in the work of rescue.
 "Eight cadets on their way Co SaI Francisco to join the Pacific fleet wer' in the smoker when the accident occur red They were hurled to the end O the ear, all being more or less injured
 Fortunately for the injured Df Myers, chief surgeon of the Universit, of Michigan, who was n passenger, es eaped uninjured. AS fast as the unfor tunate ones were taken from tho wreck ed train he dressed their wounds an' had them carried to place of safety "Immedia,cly after the impact tn wreckage caught on fire. The fire were quickly put out by the fire extin guishers carried on the train. Ther vas never any danger taat those pin ned in the wreekagc would be burne 10 death, as among the first move made was the organization of a fir patrol.
 "The roof of the dining car was spli by the impact and forced through th smoker at the height of the window The fact that any of the nineteen "a sengers in the smoker escaped wit their lives is li,tlesshort of Aniracnlou as all were hurled in heap into on corner of the car. All received injuri' of more or less serious nature.
 "Thc burned culvert was about B teen feet wide and four feet high. Tn engine ploughcd through the oPposi' bank, burying itself 10 depth eight feet. The combination smoke and mail ear and dining car were con pletely demolished. Tae end of tf third car was torn to pieces. All of q passengers on the Pullmans escape with a severe shaking
 My escape from injury was vel fortunate," continued Attorney Spi dler. "I was in the dining ear on II way 10 the smoker and suddenly four that I had forgotten my tobacco.
 returned 70 the last Pullman for q tobacco and on reaching my berth co cluded to join friend smoking on q back platform instead of returning the smoker. 1 was only seated al starting to enjoy the smoke when l a' my companion ssers hurled from O chairs We escaped uninjured and II mediately started assisting in the vol of rescue''
 Attorney Spindler was elassma of Attorney Reese M. Ling of this ei in Ann Arbor University, Miehiga He spent several hours as the guest Attorney Ling here yesterday, leavil m the evening for Jerome, where
 will visit the properties of the Pit burg Jerome Copper Company in whi he is s heavy stoekholder.