The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-02
TWELVE DEAD
AS RESULT OF
WRECK IN IDAHO
Number of Injured Exceeds
SeVenty-fiVe-MOTe
Particulars.
UNDERTAKES ARE
VERY AVARICI0US
BLAME FOR HEAD-ON COLLISION
NOT FIXED, BUT WILL BE
INVESTIGATED SOON.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. The number OF
dead as the result of the head-on col
Hsion OF two electric trains on the Occur
o'Alene & Spokane railroad last even
nS totals twelve, and the number Of in
Jured about seventy-five.
The wreck occurred at Caldwell Ida,
2 small station twenty-five miles east Of
Spokane. Many persons from eastern
states were on the trains, having come 20
Spokane to register for the Indian land
opening. The official list of dead and in
Jured was 6iven out tonight.
The Dead.
OTyilIe Puterbaugh Elkhart, Ind.
W. J. House, Scotia, Wash.
William Wonsette. Harrington, Wash.
a. =. Whitley, Memphis. Tenn
William Ward. Weuatchie. Wash.
John VERNE Springfield, No.
Daliis Golden. Spokane.
W. A. DahiqUist. Esterviile. Ia
j. G.. Cox. Medical Lake. Wash.
A. 3. Mcdonald. Druumoud, Mont.
Fred McGarry. Spokane.
Among the injured are many who live
in states east Of here. Their names as
given in the official list follow.
The Injured.
Daniel Carmody. 1913 Union avenue,
Chicago; double fracture of left leg and
P. A. Waters, Pleasant Lake. n. D.;
both legs broken.
Guy Tombleson, NuIenvlle, Kan; leg
cut.
Arthur Marvin. Victor, Mont; sprained
shoulder and hip.
Charles Osborne, Freeport, H.; bruises.
Mrs Charles Osborne, FreepOrt, H.
scalp wounds and knee hurt.
C.. P. Van Sandt, Harris0uvlle, Mo-
knee hurt
2. L. Dixon. Norfolk, Neb.; compound
fracture of left leg.
Carl Wilson, MisSoula, Mont, severe
bruises of legs and BODY
Many of the injured were brought over
TO Spokane today on special train from
Occur d'Aleue and distributed among the
various hospitals here. Several were able
TO walk from the train to carriages, but
the major portion had to be carried on
stretChers.
Undertakers Avarioiouss
Arrangements for burying the dead are
delayed pending word from relatives In
different parts Of the United States. In
dignatiOn has been aroused by reports OF
avarice said TO have been exhibited by
an undertaking firm at Occur d.Alene.
Two draTs are said to been hurried to
the scene of the wreck, loaded with
bodies and hurried away to the rooms Of
Mrs. Launceford Of Spokane, one of
the injured, says that when she recOv-
cred consciousness in the wreCkage she
was held down under the body Of 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 unassist-
ed.
Blame Not Placed.
General Manager Graves of the SpO-
kane d Inland system, of which the Occur
d'Aleus & Spokane is a part i'm an off
cidI statement says that he and other
officials have been So busy looking after
the dead and injured that they have done
nothing whatever toward fixing the re-
sponsibility for the accident There viii.
however. be a thorough Investigation, he
says, and the result viii be given 10 the
public.
1t is learned from an official who de-
clines to Ice quoted that NOt0rmau Camp
bell of the westbound train the extra
which was wrecked, had orders from the
dispatcher to pull out of Occur dAlene
and take a siding about thTee-quarters OF
a mile out, i'm order to allow the regular
eastbOund train to pass. He passed that
siding, either forgetting his orders or
imagining he could make the next sid
ing. about another mile ahead. 1t was be-
tween the two sidiugs that the collision
Motorman z. Z. Campbell of the
wrecked train, who is fatally injured,
stated tonight that he understood his or
dsrs were to meet the other train at
siding five miles from where the coils