The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-18

Of the second car. The trucks of both
freight engine and tender were jammed
back under the tilted-up boiler.
The fireman of the freight (Briden-
ably II he had stayed in his cab. the very
place where the engineer was killed In
stantly, The fireman jumped through
that window twenty-five feet up In the
air and landed on the frozen ground,
The impact broke his ankle and threw
him forward so that his head hit rail
and tore the skin from one side OF his
face. lie may be injured internally; 1t Is
too soon TO tell certainly one way or the
other.
THE freight brakeman (KrolD was
down between two steel coal cars way
at the rear OF the train. fixing something.
apparently. The freight was fully half
every drawhead was stove in, jammlng
each steel car fiat end -to-cnd tight
against the one behind il. The brakeman
was only one car from the caboose. and
his body was smashed flat between the
two cars He was not over an inch thick
crushed to q pulp. and probably never
knew what hit him
Ihe fireman hurt on the passenger
(BlXler) was scalded We found him
over near that pile of trucks | spoke OF.
where he had rolled and wIggled in his
pain He was out OF his head part OF
the time and died about five minutes
after we got him fixed up. have had
some experience helping the doctor In
had to cut his clothes off OF him and
all the head and breast was cooked by
"a ohe not water or steam Par: OF his hair
around his legs like bands. After we
had his wounds dressed the doctor wbis-
pered to me that he was dying. so ]
The railroad men did everything they
could, both those in the wreck and those
Who came on the relief train. They
passed blanks through the train on the
way to Ogden and asked each OF us to
Wrlte out our account of the wreck. If
we were hurt In any way and If not TO
say say SO on the blank: l was not hurt at
there was 10 he done and so did the
passengers. Everybody did. but most
OF US could not do much. We picked I'D
the wounded, fixed their hurts, attended
10 the dead, put them on the train and
came on to Ogden.
The switch that was left open was
the KIND that has handae down near
the main track. For half a mile back
The engineer leaning out OF his cab
could not see 1t around the front of his
engine he whistled four times for the
clear signal and got the board The
agent In the station house showed a
clear track. so he hummed right along
ana ana dld not put on the air TIL ne hit
the switch and knew he was on the
wrong track with the freight waiting for
him head on.
The passenger brakeman was stand
ing on the front steps OF the smoker with
the signal was Q. X. 1t was, and he was
Just coming back up the step when the
car hit the switch. The Jerk threw his
lleht and cap twenty feet out from the
car and tossed him up on the platform.
How II happened he did not know as he
was Knocked senseless for q moment.
Looks like naturally he would have gone
the same way the lantern and his hat
did.
The people In the Pullmans were
awakened Of course, but not shaken up
much. as they had plenty OF space TO
stop In. because the three cars ahead OF
The smoker sort OF doubled up crpssways
OF the track, but off to one side The sec
ond car was lifted bodily over the paral-
lei tracks, They were of steel while the
smoker was Of wood. and II those three
cars had not gone out OF our way those
Pul!mans behind us would have tele-
scoped the wooden smoker and killed
every man In It,
lucky accident. The way we hit was
enough to have wrecked the whole train
and killed lot more than il did We
got out fortunately with only four dead.
" looked for O moment ms if II were
thirty. And the man farthest from the
wreck, way OFF there half mile at the
end OF the freight train, was hurt the
most, while one OF the men on the pas
senger engine escaped alive. 1t seems
Just a matter OF luck who got hurt and
who didn't"