The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1917-10-26

| Fifty.sevcn cars OF an extra west
bound freight train of the Denver and
Rio Grandc were wrecked at Horse
shoe Bend on Soldier Summit about
. o'clock on Thursday evening OF last
week. The train was made up prin-
cipally 81 coal and consisted of sixty
one cars Tho engineer In charge,
Fred strohsahi lost his control In de.
scendinE the heavy grade. and with
his fireman. John y. Eckstrom. Jump
ed from the engine before II went
into the ditch several yards beyond
the wreck. The engine had been In
the meantime disconnected from the
train The former II In n Salt Lake
city hospital with broken kncecap
and other injuries. while the fireman
u also considerably bruised up.
Trainmcn assert that the engine
was loaded 20 per cent over it, capac-
ity. Engineer strohsahl applied the
airbrakcs as the train started down
the grade but they refused 90 work.
From then ON the speed Of the train
increased az frightful rate until the
engine was cut loose and proceeded
down the track. while the cars ieaped
from the rails and piled up three deep
In the cut nj Horseshoe Bend. which II
very deep and narrow. According TO
witnesses who have been on the scene
Of the wreck. the mass of twisted cars
aud coal was moro than twenty feet
deep
when the engineer warning whis-
tie 81 loss OF control OF the train was
given J. q. Iurkhoidcr. brakeman.
was sent out To- apply the handhrakes.
lie was killed In the wreck. Hundreds
OF passengers on Train No. 2. Pacific
Coast Limited. escaped death or In
jury when tho train came To- n stop In
front Of the wrcckaEv of the freight.
Had the passenger train been a few
moments earlier u would have been
passing the freight In opposite dircc-
ton Rt the point OF the wreck and
crushed under the weight of the piled
up freight cars. This h decidedly thc
worst wreck IN the memory Of the old
est trainmcn Of the road.
That the railway brotherhoods will
bring the accident To- the attention OF
the public utilities commission IN the
talk among railway men. The lcgia-
latiVe committees of the brothcrhoodn.
II ~ said. viii again bring up with the
NMNIiA MNlNlNlfN N0UlNIlANHlNn wv NNNMAa
ter OF obtaining rssulation forbiddlng
the railroads 10 haul more than NIFTY
ears mp steep grades. A part OF the
blame for the accident n laid hy rail-
road men upon the commission for
failing 10 make this regulation for the
protection Of railroad property. Tor
facility In transportation and Tor the
protection OF the lives OF passengers
and employees OF the railroads
II was necessary % transfer pas
sengris In each direction around the
wreck In automobiles up To- and In
GLIDING sunday last, while All freight
east and west has been badly congcst.
cd all week. Wrocking crows from
Salt Lake Guy. Helper ana Grand
Junction. Colo. are still clearing
away the debris. The property loss
10 the railroad runs into thousands
OF dollars. No coal from Carbon
county mines reached Salt Lake city
and western points until after Mon
day last.
y. u. CLARITY. assistant general
manager. was soon ON the scene from
Salt Lake CITY. Yesterday II was
stated that Il will be- ten days yet be-
fore the wreck II cleared hut one
track being In use up 20 that time.
w. =. Perkins, the conductor of the
ditched freight. cut his caboose from
the traiu when he realized what was
happening Word here IL that Per
kins has since been discharged. Three
cars next Co the caboose are all OF
the sSiNty-onr that did not leave the
track.
Officials OF the company fear that
BurkhOlder h not the only one who
has lost his life. Il IN generally be-
lieved there were several men steal
ing rides ON the train. Railroad men
az Helper other than the crew are OF
the belief that "A man named Craw-
ford, who had been living In Helper,
was stealing a ride on the train aud
that his body may still be- In the
wreckage.
Up Co the hour OF going a. press
this friday morning the body OF
Burkholder had not been recovered.