The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-25
RAILS SPREAD ON THE IRON MOUNTAIN AND STEEL CARS
 ARE ToPPLED OVER.
PROVIDENCE WITH TRAVELLERS
Series of Incidents Prevented the Accident From Resulting in Wholesale Tragedy at Christ
 mastide Season of Travel.
The Injured.


 ELIZABETH JACKSON, Denver aged 55 years. Hand, back an1 head bruised and probable internal injuries
 FRED E. soTToN, Little Rock hsad, cheek and hand injured.
 MRS. EDWIN DAVIS, Swarz Creek Creek. Michigan, hand and back and head injured.
 GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR AN. DERSON, Hot Springs. face smash. ed and jaw dislocated.
 c. R. WILLIAMS, New York. cut on head and injured internally.
 H, C. GOTTSMAN, New York, cut about head
 w. c. JACoBY, St. Louis, steward In diner, cut on hand
 E. E SNUBBIN. train auditor, St. Louis. Left leg injured
 w H. MORPHINS. Atlanta, in jursd in chest and ribs.
 MRS. F. C.. MATTHIAS. Argenta. left arm broken. back injured (Ser- ious.)
 PALMA BRUSSARD, Little Rock, back and wrist injured.
 NELLIE HOPKINS, (Colored) Hot Springs. badly bruised in body.
 WILLIAM HERMAN, Saclatche- wan, Canada, arm broken.
 EDWARD WORTH. Mena. right ankle injured.
 j. H. SWANSON, Muskogee, Okla. foma, claim agent of the M o. and C. Ky. fracture of shoulder and back injured.
 Fourteen of the 69 passengers on incoming lron Mouniein train No. r. special from St. Louis. were in jured~ yesterday morning when rails spread on the track about miles from the city, and five of the cars toppied over on their sides,
 Some of the things that prevent ed an almost wholesale tragedy are that the cars were steel and did not telescope, uhat the engineer applied the air with the first instant's mo- tice of something wrong, that the cars rather swayed over than to have been damned with heavy i'm pact. and that Trains No. and No. s on the mail line of the Iron Noun tain. with which this train was to have made connection, were late, and was very light one at the time of the accident
 The direct cause of the accident was the spreading of rails on curve about a mile this side of summit. The track crew had been busy there laying in new ties and new rails. The road bed had also been mater la.y improved there, as at other points, but the ground was new made. and the freeze of the past few days was responding to bright sun and the ground was loosened as a result.
 C. s. Young. engineer, Little Rock was the hero of the situation. lie stated that the engine tender was first to leave the track and indicate 10 him the rails had spread. lmmeu' lately the air brakes were apphed' and the train did not make any headway thereafter. There was the impact of the steel cars, the ten der and cars directly behind It weIe torn from the track, but the ehSine' still occupied by the engineer anu Fireman P. Boydston stuck stup- bornly to the rails and saved snerepy the cars in the rear from following on to the ties which had no raiis oh Them.
 The train was made up as tollo"s 1. Engine. main portion stuck eo rails, tender smashed,
 Baggage car. overturned on sue
 Smoker. overturned on side.
 Chair car. overturned on side.
 Dining car overturned on slue.
 First Pullman. partially overturn' ed.
 Second Pullman. on rails.
 Third Pullman, on ralls , Passengers had no intimatioh 'na, ma, anything was wrong until they lei'