The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-03

joan H. Fox. nail CLERK
OaI C. Gilman. fmmaa.
,'foTEe koegCr. mail cierS-
=. T. lsuasia. engineer.
F-' iewe.s. hrskema1
- I"nks. 6romhu
---.-- jo0es. fireman.
-Eo kcnsol. hrefcman
I'd Lindsay. conductor
~1- Macdonald braS man
Franz Ms-fin. engineer
Conductor rarsybook. and bis
brakeman.
J. r Pe'sfI, conductor
W Roycrolt. brakeman.
- StraVmcyer. brakeman
Hiram Tousicr. SPOKANE.
John Tucker. mail clerk
Two unknoNn mall welehcrs-
Stc1ographcr Car At
Forty hours have passed since the
thundsrs Of tho high cascades wrote
? ncT sto5y of the danger OF winter
travel through The winding passes oi
Tho mountains
information Lacking.
In that limo no detailed account OF
what happened ahcn the Spokane cT-
press MAS taken from It's shelter AZ
the gateway of the Cascade tunnel
and buried al the bottom Of tho can
yon has hccn received
The only stories Of tho disaster
have come from those adventurous
passengers and engineers who nave
climbed over thr mountain trails. Soy.
cral men on leaving tho sights Of hor-
ror a. Wellington and arriving at
Scents. the nearest relief station.
were unable TO describe what thcN
had scen. The perils OF their descent
OF the mountaIna and tho cries OF tho
wounded in the pit bcloS the track
had made them hystcrical
To add 10 the difficulties of the sit
us,ion the only telegraph wires into
Scenic from the west wcnt down
again tonight Rescue parties are
working desperately to save al least
"a fcw OF The passengers in tho buried
coaches.
Tho DAY coach and tho smoker hacy
not bccn found They wcyc smashed
as effectively AS though tons oil iron
had fallen on them.
One woman WAS Tccuod from a
Pullman after l. hours In q prison of
snow
Details of Tragedy.
DR.. Cox, Great Northern physician.
returned from Wellington az mid
night. Dr. Cox stated that none OF
the injured Is in a critical condition.
The majority of them were only
slightly hurt When the party loft
Wellington sixteen wcrc in the ton.
porlry hospital.
1t was estimated that no, moro than
twenty OF the l10 people who we're
carried Into the canyon By the avail.
anche escaped death or injury. Eleven
passenger cars. three locomotives,
four electric motors. one rotary snow
plow, tho rotary shed and the sand
house were swept away by tho slide
4 member OF the first relief party
who returned 70 Everett tonight said
when he reached the scene all the
cars were completely buried. Much
Of the vreckogc was covered by forty
feet of snow ard all that couIo =
seen was enc partly buried electric
motor, TWO locomotives and the wreck
age OF the rotary. All that could be
seen OF the coaches wss a steel ripc
sticking out OF the snow whore q
Pullman car was twisted around {
stump. and a curtain TINT lay on top
Hand Tells Story.
Ray Forsythc. enc of the injured
passengers. wGs IN a car in which
there were fyc women and seven chill
dren Three women and two children
eecapod but the others undoubtedly
perished.
In telling OF the experience For
sythe said that II seemed as II tn,
car was lifted bodily from the track,
and was held poised in mid-air. Sud
denly II toppled over the edge anC
rolled down the stee pesnbankment
Instantly tho air was filed with Tho
shrieks OF the injured A fesrtu
storm was raging. a hiSh wind was
blowing and there was a spectacular