The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-31
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Trenton. Mo, Dec 21.-Imprisoned
in a tourist sleeper and burned TO
death is believed to be the fate Of
perhaps twelve passengers on the Cal
ifornia special. westbound. on the
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific rail-
road, three miles east OF Trenton to-
day The number Of victims may be
larger, hut the facts will not be
known til tho debris of the car has
been sceI ched
The train was derailed at $40.
while passing through stretch OF
ice-covered country at high speed.
the huge engine jumping the track.
\ standard Pullman sleeper and the
tourjst sleeper caught fire and were
destroyed and portion Of the chair
car was burned
Al noon the known dead. whose
Dies had been recovered numbered
ice. Fireman Lininger and two wo-
III unidentified. Nine persons were
i1red. two probably fatally.
he bodies of the two women were
den from the chair car, Most of
II Injured also were In this car
All the passengers in the burned
bmon escaped and. aside from
buses and slight cuts, none was
at.
The number OF those who lost their
lihs in the tourist car is In doubt
Sne arc known TO have escaped from
<&is car and it Is believed all Its pas
,gengars we're cremated. The wreck
occurred without moments warning
10 the passengers and. by the time
they had realized what was happen
Ing, the three cars were In flames.
Happening az It did in an isolated
SDot. there was no aid at hand save
thai available in other parts OF the
train Those passengers and mem
bcrs of the crew who escaped injury
immediately went to work 10 aid the
injured. The flames that attacked
The tourist sleeper burned hercely'
forcing back the rescuers, and they
stood by IN the ice and snow power
less 10 render aid
Tho cause of the wreck is not
known The engine suddenly jump
cd The track and. plowing through
The roadbed landed upside down
nity feet from tho tracks
Following closely came the mail
and baggage cars These two cars
doubled ahead past the engine, both
being badly smashed Back OF these
two cars came a chair car. tourist
sbeper. two standard Pullman sleep
ers and an observation car. Whcn
The chair car. the tourist and the brst
OF tho Pullman sleeperS reached
point orposite the disabled engine
| they lefi the track and piled up. These
] fhp engine
x Tho second standard sleeper and the
observation car were pracucdiiy W"
damaged. The first shock over pas
sengers began clambcring through
windows. while farmers living neai
ran To sec what they could DO 70 as
sist
Men entered the burning chair cal
aud dragged half-stuDned ana oleed
lne passengers to safety.
Flames nreycnted the rescucrs IRON
entering, the tourist car. from tne
vlpdoUfa of this car. two OF three pas
shrors arc known TO have made
thair escape unaidod. The fate oI
the others could only be con1ectureo
Prom behind the burning %reckaee
of thn engine. other rescuers draS
ged ,he body Of Fireman Lininger
blrned and mangled almost oe!oh'
recognition. u ,,,r,
T6c, tourist and the Pullman wer'
scon reduced TO pile Of twisted iror
and ash's. s.t,o,,ol
In the belief that the deslroyet
tourist car held the bodies OF pcrnaP' Ul,
dozen or more persons. the passen
gers lining the tracks stood In awe'
silence , ,-a.
unobtainable and che numoer anu ~
identity Of the dead could not u
"A revealed for many hours.