The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-22

Seemeu 10 CHINO on Inc Trailer anO
heavier loaded car and from its pilot
10 within six feet of the rear swept
over the coach taking it almost clean.
That anything alive could have survived
that terrible sweep of spintered and
twisted steel Is miracle.
Following the crash there was
period of appalling stiffness and then
rose the scrieks and groans of the
wounded. We who survived and had
got out of the wreckace set about to do
what we could for the wounded.
Sickening Sights.
"Tbe big car had completely tele.
driven into each other Blood dripped
from the cars and formed pools be-
meath the debris. The conductor 3
safety box had beeu wrenched open
and 1t was filled with blood that had
dripped into it.
Conductor Del Wilson Of the south
bound car told a graphic story Of the
wreck. He said.
81 was going toward the rear of my
car to get the KEYS from my locker with
which to unlock switch that we
were approaching. This switch has a
dead end and unless it is unlocked we
would have run into the ground We
were then about quarter of a mile
from kingsland.
Game Like Flash.
"'Suddcnly all the stuff in the car
began to pile up around me. | did not
hear any crash or noise. Things Just
seemed TO rise up all around me. /
could not do ANYTHING TO stop them.
Then ! lost consciousness. ! guess, for
the next thing | knew | was IN the
grove near the wreck. I don Z remem
her hearing anv screams or any par
. 1,- at hat %
| guess is that ] was out of my head.
''l walked back 70 the wreck and saw
Motorman Charles Vsudine of the
northbound car staggering around there
and ] grabbed him and walked down
the track with him "A short distance.
Then we went across the field, and
don't remember anything more until
some one in this house took off my hat,
collar and coat and ~ut me TO bed.
Ross Nelson, a reporter on the Bluff
ton Banner. was sent out to cover the
wreck. While assisting in rescue work.
he uncovered the body OF his brother:
Harold, fatally injured Nelson died
while on the way to hospital
DR.. l.. II. Cook Of Bluffton. one OF
those summoned to aid the injured, II
going through the debris. came across
the corpse of his brother. H D. Cook.
Bodies Badly Mangled.
II was LONG hard task to remove tho
bodies. The dead and injured we're laid
in rows at the side OF the tracks. Farm
ers wives brought sheets TO cover ths
dead and TO make pandases for the
wounded The bodies were all horribly,
manglcd. Legs and arms were severed.
heads were cut from bodies and strips
were torn from the flesh OF the victims
Many bodies were cntangled in tho tim
bcrs OF the crushed cars.
Flies settled on the long rows OF dead
and injured In great swarms. The Dhysi-
clans had little assistance from thel
lownspeople and farmers, and the injured
suffered for TWO hours before they We're
relieved by the medicines brought by the
doctors Pcnding the arrival of physi-
clans. the injured writhed and screamed,
while the crowd stood awe-stricken and
helpless.
A. A. Shane Of The Indiana railroad
commission arrived here tonight and viii
mako an investigation of the cause Of the
collision. The motorman and conductor
of tine northbound car are said to have
believed they had clear right-of-way
to Fort Wayne The crew OF the south
bound car were ordered IL is under
stood, To "cicar for all regulars and 10
meet The other car at the Kingsand
switch The southbound car hurrSing TO
Bufrton To load with passengers 10 carry
10 the fair AT Fort Wayne, passed stop
No ioG and II Is supposed the motorman
thought he could reach stop NO. lOT. Be-
fore he reached II the crash came.