The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-19
TWELVE KILLED IN
MILWAUKEE WRECK
Second Section OF Passenger
Train Crashes Into First at
Odessa, Mimi,
LONG LIST OF INJURED
Most of The Victims of the Dis
aster From Montana and
Washington,
LONG LIST OF INJURED

ODESSA, Nunn., Dec is.-TwelNe are
dead and a score or more seriously m
iurcd as The result OF silk Train ON the
Chicago. Milwaukee Il ST Paul road. run.
ming as section No. of the COLUMBIAN
nvcr crashing. into tho rear sleeper ri
the nver al tn" station here early To-Day
Q The engine Of the silk special plowed
five teci into the Pullman, the last cor
of the nycr. but the greatest loss OF ne
Was In the front end OF the sleeper, which
was telcscopcd by the dining car Just
Long after 1t was believed all tho dead
had heen taken from tho debris wreckcis
late this afternoon fonmd two bodies IN
tho clumpled sleeper. literally cut 10
bic BE ''' '''
Although both tic. diner and sleeper
upper portion Of the sleeper from the
floor as If IL had been cardboard. In
some manner the diners floor became
elevated slightly above that of the sleep
ers In the impact. and With the force OF
section No. IS engine behind. the sleeper
was iamncd along for fully twenty -hye
feet. while tho diner. as a gigantic knife
cut away the upper structure.
The Dead
Mrs e. f. Myers, New Castle, Ind.
Or. r. r. Whctstone. Minneapolis.
Mrs r. r. milestone, Minneapolis.
Mrs. c. W. Barber Terry, Mont
Mrs. J. +. Richards and daughter. Mo-
W j McKeenc. sleeping car conductor,
Chicago
Thomas Alexander. cook in dining car,
Newark, X. j.
Miss Peterson Green Bay Wis,
CnidcntIhed man. about 26 or 30 years
old. a passenger.
Two unidentified men or women.
The Injured,
Mrs. + J Mather, Recder, $. D.. slight
~ injured.
Ralph Amy, Aberdeen. S. u, ankle
injured.
Mrs. Addie Dcutsch. Butte, Mont, left
Mrs Z A. Williams, Lennon back
and head hurt.
Msraidus Pierce, seattle back and foot
injured
and back injured
w. II Perry Vancouver e. c., bruised
on head. arm and shoulder
T.: T.tblap Seattle. back injured.
Miss Leola Kennedy. New Castle. Ind.
back injured.
L. Revert, Three Forks Mont, slightly
injured.
j. II. Alexander. porter of sleeping car,
slightly injured.
Eaph ID, Brown Levy. Mont. back in
Dr. Sherman, Levy, Mont. back in
Iohn samuclsou. Aberdeen. S. d. head
cut
NJ. L. lie Blanc. Seattle. back injured
Alpha Le Blanc. Seattle. bruised and
shaken.
+. lie Blanc Seattle. back wrcnchcd.
9. c. Crdgin. New York, body bruised
and left knee wrenchcd.
w II Swan. Toronto Canada. left
knee bruised
/. Scanion, Minneapolis. leg injured
John Kock. Aberdeen. S. D., foot in
1ured.
joseph Sandel fireman second section.
ankle broken.
f. ] Mather. Reeder " D., shoulder
bruised and left knee injured.
Mrs. l.. Revert Three Forks. Mont.
right side injured,
Blame Not Fixed.
Responsibility for the wreck has not
been determined but is said to rest be-
tween the operator at Ortonville juno
Lion who, IL is asserted. should not have
permitted the silk train TO enter she
block. the operator who, il Is said, failed
TO lit the stop signal for the flyer and
the fagrnan OF the flyer. who. il is
claimed, failed To protect the rear OF his
train after II stopped Al The block
OF all those in the Pullman but TWO
escaped without Injury. and In the for
ward part. where the diner ground its
way through the berths, the dead were
in a berth was killed or seriously in
iircd while the other suffered but slight
hurts. This WAS the case OF the two
brothers. Alpha and NJ. +. lie Blanc, the
former receiving slight hurts while the
latter was Injured seriously,
g. T. Shuster. 'iackic' OF tie United
states battleship West Virginia on his
way to his home in Toledo, O.. on fur
lough, was conspicuous In the work OF
rescue
Nearly all the injured were taken To
Minneapolis and many OF them continued
on their way home The bodies OF the
dead are being held here for instructions
Coroner Bosta impaneled a jury late
This afternoon. and tonight. with County
Attorney kaircher, began an inquest 10
nace 'he responsibility for The wreck
The road was cleared oC the wreck late
today and traffic resumed