The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-20

| = were iSlledf Ia were injured y
4 and property Was damaged TO the 3
= extent Of 'S50o,00o
4 4 4 , = = = = = 4
Fom workmen who are missing arc
believed 10 have perished. and OF the
| 125 Injured IS were removed TO hos
| pitals. or these. eight may die IN
Investigation by the police in under
way.
Traffic on the New York Central
! railroad ceased entirely for some
hours. and WIS disorganlzod for tho
rest OF the day. blt the new station
Itself. now in process Of construction.
was not damaged.
The Ocod
NTCOLI BALUCCl. laborer.
PATRICK JORDAN. laborer
z. b. LIVERMORE, Pullman car in
spector
c. MHIARROW. lsborer
EDITH OFFNER, stenographer
MARY B POPP Of Boston
CHARLES ROBERTS. cxprc ssman.
FRANK STAGG watchman
JOHN RYAN. lahcrer
Tho injured include aborers and
other employees Of tho railroad. pc
dcs;rians. bystandcrs and others in
the vicinity Of the accident.
The Seriously injured.
a passing surface car carrying
seven passengers was lifted from is
tracks and hurled into an automobile
running alongside Four of the seven
passengers were Killed outright. but
hr oh ~
only cut and bruised or the nearly
100 In hospitals, the following are the
most seriously injured:
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. frac-
turcd skull
and internal injuries.
THERESA LOTTA. fractured skull
and shoulder
JOHN SMITH. injuries to the head.
FRANCIS KELLEY, policeman,
burned and bruised
JOIN CUNNINGHAM. burned
Caused by Illuminating Gas.
For some hours. IL was believed,
dynamite alone could have wrought
such instantaneous and demolishing
havoc, but latc in the afternoon Fire
Chief Croker said he was convinced
ca" tNIl'0iou Was uuc 10 a ihlAlufc vi
AN and Illuminating gas, used in
lighting railroad cars, touched on by
an electric spark Tho gas had ac-
cumulated in the auxiliary power
house from a broken pine, snapped Off
by runaway passenger car
The force of The explosion ran
horth and south from one TO two miles
along the rocAy ridge that Is the back
I.
oone oil the island, a1d east and west
lateraily Tor q mile.
Foundations were injured. walls
We're shaken out oi pllmb, windows
were blown IN by gre thousands, cell
lhSS came crlstiu Gown on the heads
OF lhoSe bepeain and me payemeutS
were uttered with 'Hlr"rled glass.
property O7n7ce Wi'i Exceed S5oooo0
me lulI am0rnt OF the property
damage is vet r77Y3iohl" and may
exceed thaNsi .D2tc of 100000. Tho
loss To The Nc| YORK Central rail
road compart includes the physical
damage done TO the power house,
Whlch was completely wrecked the
delay TO construction work and the
damage done to cars standing near
the power house The loss 10 shop
Keepers and property owners in the
vicinity VIII spread over wide
range OF items. Christmas displays
were blown backward into the shops,
sucked INTO the street or cut into rib
bons by living glass
whole fronts OF building were left
"llhouI a window.
Cause Of Accident.
As nearly as can be ascertained this
Is no" the accident occurred:
train oi empty passengers cars,
hauled by an electric motor in charge
or Albert Seagroatt. got out Of con-
trol, crashed into a steel and concrete
buuer post swapping 1t of, and ram
med pile OF lumber behind 1t into
q gas main connecting with the tanks
nom which the car tanks are charged,
by the watches OF the motorman and
John j. QUINN a brlcklayer on the
main power house adjoining the aux
ilary house, the time of the break in
the pine was about O'Clock. TWO
clocks stopped by the jar fixes the eX-
pioslon time at So.
In the interval the broken Tap had
ample tlmc TO pour high pressure gas
into the lower levels of the auxiliary
power house When worlmen set to
clearing away the lumber, it is as
sumed that one of them dropped a
steel tool across the third rail; there
was flash Of electricity and the
great reservoir OF accumulated gas
exploded