The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-19
|TEE[ RAIL SNAPS;
/ TRAIN IS D|TCHED
orty-Five Persons Injured in a
Wreck on the Burling-
Y ton Railway.
CCIDENT OCCURS NEAR
THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Tense Cold Cause of Disaster
Which May Result i'll Sev-
eral Deaths.
eascd wire 70 nc Trlbune


-.CHICAGO, H.. Dec. 1S.-Forty five
h.fsons were injured, eight Of them Sc
Nrely, when rail snapped in the in
use cold and ditched the Oriental Linn"
I'd OF the Chicago, Burlington &c Quin-
traiiroad. at Western Springs, a VII
,ke near Chicago. The Limited, which
Sithe star train of the road to Seattle,
SIS seven hours late and was running
q4y miles IN hour TO make mp lost. time.
Fatally Injured:
MRS. BERNARD ESCH-
6 Hart street, Portland, Ore, may
\ EnARNED, MRS. ANNA, Seattle,
ash. informally injured
NOVEL;, MRS. \. O., wife of mining
~eineer, Wyrni, B. c.. internally in
! ted; taken to Presbyterian hospital;
ey die.
NJ Other Injured;
IsAtwood. !. J.. and wife, Franklin,
b., cut and bruised
;Andrews, Emma, Miss, Chicago, aged
r. on way homo from Spokane. head
I u face cut and bruised, left side
Bales. Benjamin, Fargo, \. D., neck
ia. body bruised.
Bishop, Frank, Portland, Ore, right
10 injured. face cut.
|lIBell. p A.. ard witc. Findley y. D..
,,,Aised and laccratcd
llBrack. NJ. g.. Rcd Lodge, Mont,
,-sised and cut.
7eishop. Frank, 5oi Thirty-ffth street,
II icaoo, bruises and cuts
EBrown. j. f.. 1892 Clarendon avenue,
hago. bruised and cut.
Iorse, j.. M and Mrs, Indian Head
Flint, bruised aud cut
IHemde. MARY, Mrs, Whiting, Ind,
3 and bruised.
i51ohpson, Mr.. ard Mrs. IT, A., Crooks.
~ Mimi, bruised and cut.
i1Iohnson. Miss Anna, . years old,
.okston. Mimi, cut and arm wrechcd.
IobustoG. Il. f.. Medical Lake, Wash,
tby falling window
klisley. Fred, Spokane. Wash,
Used, cut and laceratcd; taken TO
Elizabeth hospital.
Lanc, Is L., 702 East Pike street.
htle, Wash. neck wrcnched, body
used AND cut.
Noratowiz, Michael, New York, left
fSiniured.
II stunned.
Mitchell, Viola. Charlotte. \. d.
,Pavseur. Mrs, J.. p, 33 wears old Scat
Ill Wash. cut and bruised; taken to
Nbyterian hospital
2avseur. Theodore, Z wears old, Scat
II -, lao vIls
hospitnl
iced, Mrs. Mary, aged - years, Roos
iced, Helen, aged years. Eoos \. d
Iced Mrs. Mary, Pearson, y. d..
sdn 'teine. AM Mrs. y"' s. E. spokane. Wash.
. I'D pnd face bruised and cut.
Mrs, Mary, Everett, Wash,
~ 'homas. Il. B.. Colvillc, Wash.
ised. cut aud leg wrenched; may
% internal injuries.
'atc. George. Cleveland, Injured III
nally.
aughau, c. W. WarGeld, O., bruised
Watkins. Wllium. conductor train
, >. Ter cut on and informally hurt
>, touch of pathos Of Christmas patho'
/, ..ib given 10 the story by the fact that
] Nny Victims were ON their way tC
il old homes. or 10 visit relatives
ing the HOLIDAYS. Three Pullman
pcrs were whirled down n fifteen
embankment and that no one wa:
n6ed, was declared by railroad men tC
'klscarcelv less than a mirS-ie,
~ Pinned in the Wreck.
'ssscngers were pinned in th,
,eked ears and had 10 be chopped
with axes. HaJf-clad and IN paII
N their injuries they suffered from
piercing cold till the villagers o,
stern Springs came TO their rescu,
gave them refuge, Most of thu
ared were brought 10 CHICAGO IN +:
ciai train sent out by the Burling
an hour after the wreck, anC
fed IN Chicago hospitals.
Al HecrGe II Snowden, a Young luinin'
LII W lumber man of Seattle. on his wa
- marry President Taft < niece. Louis
Tart. daughter Of Mr., and Mrs
1ry. Waters Taft, of New York. ol
e. ember 50. was in the wreck. but es
{ ed without injury. He came 10 Chi
sfp and stoned at The Annex,
8 statement made late in the aft
IN pom, o. l., Dickson. member of th
E2zSyatIng vice-preSident' staff Of fh
1ngton. declared that the rail brok
Pnsc of hidden defect which /
impossiblc To detect. combined wit
~ zero weather. The speed OF tn
Wyn was given as fortv-eight mile
~ n9ur, twelve miles slower than ;h
fuule over this stretch of track.