Arizona republican., 1915-08-28
Escaping Death from Crash in@ Cars, Four NJ en Pinned in Smoker Drown Like Rats-Many Aiirac- ulous Escapes
COMPLETE LIST OF
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Bodies and Injured Rushed to Prcscott-Wrcrk Ties Up Line for at Least Three Days-Dctails "f SmaSh-up
Special to The Republican,

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 PRESCOTT. Aug. 27.-Four people were killed by drowning. nine are in the Mercy Hospital here. one os whom. N. P. Carlson of Chandler, is in a critical condition and not ex pected to live. and nine are slightly injured. as a result Of a wreck when a northbound Santa Fe train Thurs day night plunged through Bridge No. 197 three miles south Of Date Creek.
 The cause of the fatal accident is ascrioed to a cloudburst washing out the underpinuing of the bridge.
 The dead are: Brady Beck. a Santa Fe bridqe carpenter, of Pres cots; Or. C. o. Durfee, a veterinary surgeon and farmer. Of Chandler; Charles Dolick. of Hamilton, Cal; and John HiIliard. negro, of Crown King.
 In the Mercy hospital tonight are; Justiano Garcia, bruised and cut about the chm and with a bruised hip: T. Coleman. of Oatman bruised leg and arm: Glen Haynes, of Mil Waukee. bruised and GU: about tho feet: N. F. Carlson, ot Chandler, scalp torn. James Nicons. of NuI- ture mine. Wickenburg. broken collar hone. Alonzo Luley. Jr, of Denver eye bruised and blackened; V. C. Hewitt. of Prescott, chest and hip bruised: Thos. McGregor. of Pres colt. slight scratches around the eye; VI. Holmes. brakeman wrist artery severed. face and chest scratched.
 The four met their death by drowning while pinned in the smoker and ,hc majority of the injured also i'm, he fah was reduced to one mass of kindling wood
 According to the different stories as Piedmont was left in the distance. rain started To come down heavier and heavier The engineer and fire man of the train had noticed there was but little water in the creeks before reaching the fatal trestle and were taken entirely off their guard
 The engine started out on the 150- foot trestle which is 25 feet high anI had reached the center before the cracking of timbers was heard. The engine turned over and fell into the creek, then running nearly bank full of water due to 2 cloudburst further back in the mountains. The baggage car followed after the en- zine. which had turned on it's side. the front end on part of the tTestla and the rear end in the creek. The baggage car turned on it's side up- stream and the smoker crashed into and under part of it, teiescoping it and catching the four men who were killed.
 The next car. the day coach. crash ed into the rear end of the smoker v.Ith it's rear trucks still up on the first few feet of the trestle while the sleeper held to the track anC sustained only a slight jar.
 The smoker was really the only car in which anyone was hurt seriously. The day coach was tilted at an angle Of more than 45 degrees. Only the front end was in the water and a few of the people in it were scratch . cd and bruised as q result of the jar. Engineer A. w. Pentland after es- caping from the cab in which he had beer imprisoned under the water, as sisted in rescuing nine men from tie smoker.
 Believed Only Dersilment
 A special relief train loaded with blankets and stretchers was started