Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-02
lBy Associated Pre.sN


SPOKANE. Aug. Most of those
injured in yesterdays wreck on the
Occur d'Alere & Spokane railroad are
progressing favOrably, though fears are
felt that a few victims will not recover
Doctors in attendance on Miss
Frances Golden Of Spokane say she is
dying. Her leg was amputated today.
Her brother was killed in the wreck.
The dead:
ORVILLE PUTERBAUGH, Elkhart,
Ind.
w J. HOUSE, Scotia. Wash.
WILLIAM WONSETTER, Harring-
ton Wash.
A. P. WHITLEY. Memphis, Tenn.
WILLIAM WARD. Weenatchee,
Wash
JOHN VERNE. Springfield, Mo.
DALLIE GOLDEN. Spokane.
w. A. DAHLQUIST. Esterville, Ia.
J. c. cox, Medical Lake. Wash.
a. b. MCDONALD, Drummond, Mont.
FRED McGARRY, Spokane.
Beside a score of injured whose homes
are in Spokane or Coeur d'Alene the
following are reported seriously hurt:
Daniel Carmody 1919 Union avenue,
Chicago, internal injuries.
p. NJ. Waters. Pleasant Lake y. D.,
both legs broken, each in two places.
Guy Tombleson, Mullinyille, Kas..
leg cut.
Arthur Marvin. Victor, Mont,
sprained shoulder and hip.
Charles Osborne. Freeport ILL.,, scalp
wounds and knee hurt.
G. P. Vansandt, Harrisorvil1e, Mo-,
knee hurt.
E. L. Dixon, Norfolk, Neb., compound
fracture left leg.
Carl Wilson. Missoula. Mont, severe
bruises.
Motorman Campbell Of the wrecked
train, who was reported last night
among the dead. is alive this afternoon,
but it is said II is only a matter of a
few hours until he viii succumb. He
was mangled in the vestibule of his
car.
Many of the injured were brought to
Spokane today on a special train from
Occur d'Alcne and distributed among
the various hospitals here. Several of
them were able TO walk, with assistance,
from the train to carriages, but the
majority We're carried on stretchers.
All day messages have been pouring
into the city from friends at a distance.
making anxious inquiries in regard to
persons known or believed to have been
on the wrecked train. Statements of
passengers show that no one had even
a seconds warning of the disaster be-
fore the crash came.
Charles Osborne of Freeport, ILL.,.
said: We had no time to jump. The
front seats were swept back, pinning
us into a small space, while those In
front were thrown in a heap on top
of the passengers in the rear. The
whole front of the train seemed to come
right back at us, and almost before we
knew it we were buried in wreckage
Everybody behaved most heroic
ally, even the seriously injured Offering
to help others. / did not see a persons
in the smoking car who was not hurt. "
Mr.. Osborne himself was hurt in the
chest and legs, while his wife was cut
and bruised.
Arrangements for burying the dead
or otherwise disposing of the bodies are
pending word from relatives in
different parts of the United States.
Until the coToners jury meets at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning to investi-
gate the cause of the accident the
bodies are not allowed to be removed.
Greed said to have been shown by
one of the undertaking firms at Occur
d'Alene to secure possession of the dead
at the wreck is the subject of comment.
Two drays are said to have been hur-
ried to the scene, several bodies thrown
on and rushed away to the rooms of the
firm.
Mrs. Launceford Of Spokane, one of
the injured says when she recovered
consciousness i'm the Wreckage she was
held down under the body of a man
whose skull was crushed and she heard
some one saying:
Leave them alone; they are dead.
Get out the live ones"
She managed to struggle free unas-
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