The San Francisco call., 1909-09-10
TRAINS CRASH ON
SALT LAKE ROUTE
One Passenger Killed and Two
Fatally and Others Seriously
Hurt in Collision

SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 9.-From an
improvised hospital in Eureka, in the
heart of the Tintic mining district, the
scene early today of headon collision
between westbound train No. on the
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
road and a local passenger out of Eu-
reka, General Manager r. E. Wells of
the Salt Lake route and a corps of ply
sicians and hospital nurses sped away
in a special train-a veritable hospital
train-carrying the body of one victim
and nine of the more seriously injured
persons to this city.
The sole victim of the wreck was
Dennis Hannifin, passenger on the
local train, who sustained internal in
juries and died shortly after being
placed in the special car. But eight of
the passengers now quartered in the
local hospitals are seriously injured,
and of this number two are believed to
be fatally hurt.
Passengers in the tourist cars on the
westbound train were severely shaken.
The seriously injured are:
]. w. LEAvITT engineer on limited. Salt
Lake City; left hip crushed and leg badly man
gled; probable internal injuries.
E. G. SULLIVAN, fireman limited, Salt
Lake City; left leg broken in two places, right
foot smashed and badly scalded about head and
body.
PAT McNINNEY conductors leg smashed and
ED HENDERSON,, porter on through train,
Los Angeles; scalded and probable internal in
M R. BLOOM, Eureka; injuries to back and
head.
a. T. ORION, Sandy, Utah; ankle sprained
ROBERT KINDER, brakeman on local train,
BEN n. BiNGMAN, Los Angeles; both legs
broken.
The wreck occurred in a deep cut
and on curve. Neither train could
see the other until it was too late for
anything to be DONE Train No. 1 out
of Salt Lake City was loaded with IA
passenger cars. Although it is one
of the through trains to Los Ange-
les and carries heavy loads, 1t moves
slowly, and to that the passengers
owe their lives Only few passengers
were aboard the local, which at that
point generally puns slow. The crew
on the Eureka train saw the approach
of the passenger just in time to jump,
and they escaped injury. Engineer
Leavitt and Fireman Sullivan stuck to
their posts and went over with the
engine.
The impact of the trains colliding
threw both engines off the track and
turned them completely over. At the
same time the baggage cars on both
trains were thrown over and the
smoker on one of the trains was also
turned over on it's side. Nearly every
car on the through train was thrown
off the track.
DR.. w. E. Aughinbaugh, New York
City, was a passenger on. the through
train to Los Angeles and took complete
charge of the work of caring for the
injured.
At the railroad offices in this city
General Manager Wells said:
Il do not believe in the old fashioned
policy of covering UP a wreck.
We have had a bad wreck this morn
ing, and here are the details as far as
/ am informed at the present time:
NO. 1, westbound overland passen-
ger train, was late leaving Salt Lake
this morning, At $50 the train went
headon into No. 200, local eastbound,
which was on time. The only cause
that / can assign for the wreck was
that the crew of No. I overlooked the
local train and went ahead contrary to
orders"