Eastern Utah advocate. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1895-1915, 1914-10-15


jured. when twenty-ton boulder
struck the day coach and smoker on
rio orande Train No. .. eighteen
miles east Of Grand Junction at 1895
Sunday morning.
The Dcndi
N. n. HOf.LfNoeBERY Pueblo.
travelling salesman.
| THOMAS 6. LINKENs. GRAND
Junction. branch manager Ridenour
baker Grocer company
HAIRY BRADDOcK. Chicago.
Tho Seriously rnjnscdi
Ralph Arthur Cor. marine recruit.
Boulder. Colo. en- route 10 San Fran
cisco. Head gashed, loft leg crushed.
rib fractured. hands bruised.
Adea BratIingham. Alliance, Ohio.
badly bruised and suffering from a
nervous shock.
Emmett Abbott. Sacramento. left
ear torn off; severe bruises.
Mira stella Maynard. Fruita. Colo.
forehead gashed.
Audrey Harrington. her daughter.
scalp lacerated.
w v. Lewis Roberts. Ida. severe
bruises
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Black. Akin
son. IN. arms bruised and suffering
from nervous shock.
The train was going az a high rate
OF speed when a smaif boulder struck
the coupling between the tender and
smoker and parted the train. A sec
ond later an Immense rock. dropping
sheer hundred feet. smashed into
the day coach and smoker and de-
spite the ali-atcel construction. crush
- ~ a.
explain how the other occupants Of
tho car escaped with their lives. for
ne least twenty men. women and chill
dren were unhurt. Ths track n with
In ten feet Of the Grand river bank
aud much OF the wreckaTe wan
thrown into the water. Linkena head
was severed from the trunk and was
crushed into an unrecoRniEnble pulp.
lie was Identified BY contents OF his
pockets Iiraddock'n body was nlu-
tilatcd terribly and for hourH the
corpse was Identified AZ that OF n.
~ Woodwork. deputy state barber
examiner. The latter was not on the
rain. Iiollingsbery was In the scat
with Linkcns and received injuries
which resulted IN his death ten min
utsa after the accident
A wrecker from Grand Junction
and special relief trains from Paii-
nadc aud Grand Junction were hur-
ried 20 the scene and immediate med
icnl attention probably saved the
lives % several % the more seriously
; injured.
Eight o. the wounded passengers
we're taken 20 ~ Mnry's Hospital nj
Grand Junction and tho remainder
were given attention and continued
; ON their way. The dead were taken
TO the Grand Junction morgco.
Tho tracks were cleared late Sun
day and tho train bearing the lesa
soriounly injured continued on itn
journey. arriving In Price al 7;ts In
the evening.
dispatch from Grand Junction
> states that n coroner'a Inquest over
the dead IN Sundays wreck on the
Denver and Rio orande between
, Pnilnade and Deiieque Ia which three
we're killed and fourteen injured by
I n twenty-ton boulder which fell on a
train. hogan Monday.
Most of the seriously injured who
were brought 10 Grand Junction we're
reported improved. Adna nratlng-
! ham OF Alliance. o.. who suffered
, from shock and severe bruises. will
recover. although his condition In con-
sldered serious, Emmett Abbott OF
Sacramento. Cal. IL Improved. al
though suffering from ioas OF blood
. MIRA Thomas G. Linkena. whose
husband was killed IN the wreck. was
I IN a Grand Junction hospital recover
lng from an operation when she
learned OF the tragedy. Her condition
: II serious
Eyewitness Describes Wreck.
Special Agent Curtis OF the Denver
and llio 0rande. who was on the
wrecked train. arrived In Price Mon
day and describes the falling OF the
houlder as one OF the most peculiar
accidents In the history OF railroad
ing.
One man. brakeman Glenn, Ia still
missing, and unless he was crushed
: under the twenty-ton boulder Il II
impossible 20 imagine where his body
J can be. Tho large missile fell din
lance OF more than hundred feet
and struck 10 that Il completely fills
at least one-thlrd OF the coach and
f, remains there intact The bed OF the
coach was not broken and was pulled
into Grand Junction with the boulder.
The rails underneath the car were
: badly bent
Immediately after the falling OF the
: large rock, n second smaller one de-
, seconded. hitting the side OF the coach
and smashing u badly and a third
|. boulder hit the coach over the toilet
! and rests on that end OF the car.
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