Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-31

Trenton. Mo, Dec. 3l-Imprisoned in
n tourist sleeping car and burned to
death is believed to be tho fate of per-
haps IL passengers. on the California
special, twestbound. on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad, three
miles east of Trenton. today. The
number of victims may be larger, but
the facts will not be known tilt the
debris OF the car has been searched.
The train was deraiied at $40 while
passing through stretch of Ice COW
engine jumping the track. standard
Pullman sleeper and the tourist sleeper
caught fro and were destroyed and a
portion.of the chair car was burned.
At noon the known dead whose bodies
had been recovered numbered three,
Fireman LIninger and two women un-
Identified. Nine persons were injured.
two probably fatally,
The bodies OF the two women we're
taken from the chair car. Most OF the
injured also were in this car.
NO TOURIST ESCAPED.
All the passengers in the burned Pull
man escaped and aside from bruises
and slight cuts, mono was hurt. The
number of those who lost their lives in
the tourist car is in doubt None are
known to have escaped from this car
and 1t Is believed all its passengers
were cremated. The wreck occurred
without a moments warning TO the
passengers and by the time they had
realized what was happening the three
cars were in flames. Happening as II
did in an Isolated spot there was no
aid at hand save that available in other
parts OF the train.
Those passengers and members of
the crew who escaped injury lmmcdl-
ately went 10 work to aid the injured.
Many We're dragged from the chair car
while those II. the Dufning Pullman
generally escaped unassisted.
The flames that attacked the tourist
sleeper burned flercely, forcing back
the rescuers, and they stood by in the
Ice and snow powerless to render aid.
The cause of the wreck Is not known.
The engine suddenly jumped the track
and plowing through the roadbed. land
ed upside down. SO feet from the tracks.
Following closely came the mall and
baggage cars These two cars doubled
ahead past the engine. both being badly
smashed. Back of these two cars came
chair car, a tourist sleeper. two
standard Pullman sleepers and an OBJ
servation car.
CARS CATCH FIRE.
When the chair car. the tourist and
the first OF the Pullman sleepers
reached a point opposite the disabled
engine they left the track and piled
up. These at once caught fire from
the engine. The second standard sleep
er and the observation car were prac-
tically undamaged, The first shock over.
passengers began clambering through
windows while farmers living near by
.l,1t koxr "A 20 fef
Men entered the burning chair car
and dragged half stunned and bleeding |
passengers to safety.
Flames prevented the reScuerS from |
the tourist car. From the |
of this car two or three pas
are known TO have made their |
escape unaided The fate of the 9TH
crs could only be conjectured
From behind the burning wreck of
the engine other rescuers dragged the
body of Fireman Lininger. burned and
almost beyond recognition.
When the wrccking train arrived
from Trenton. the cars on each side
" the three fated cars were drawn
out OF the reach of the flames The
tourist and the first Pullman were soon
reduced to pile of twisted iron and
ashes
In the belief that the DESTROYED tour
1oZen or more persons. the passengers
lining the tracks stood by in awed
silence.
The injured we're hurried to Trenton
md given first aid at the local hotel,
ater being transferred to Kansas City
NO LIST OF MISSING.
A complete list OF the missing was
and the number and
IDENTITY of the dead could not be re-
yealed for many hours.
The train was one OF the heaviest and
inest in the Rock Islands service It
s what Is known in the summer as the
Golden State limited" and In the
winter as the california special"
The train left Chicago at 9 o'clock
Thursday night and was due to arrive
n Kansas City at 1926 today AT