Arizona republican., 1920-07-10
KILLED
SLIGHTLY INJUREp


 E. J. DIGNAN, conductor pas seneer train, e14 North Fifth Ave-
 Phoenix; broken shoulder, inter
 nal injuries, cuts on head and
 face.
 E. w. Stephens, secretary live
 stock sanitary commission, 1514
 West Monroe street, Phoenix.
 R. E. L. Shepard, attorney,
 Walter G. susse, eos North Fifth.
 avenue, Phoenix.
 C. B. Wood, Mesa.
 LeeaIes Lesayer, Jerome June
 ton.
 E. M. Walker, Mayer, Arizona.
 L. F. Clark, engineer freight
 L. c. Stimson, brakeman.
 
 Two people were killed and 14 wero injured four of them seriously, in a head-on collision yesterday morning of a southbound passenger train of the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix rail- road and a northbound train of can taloupes drawn by two engines. The trains met at 6:30 o'clock between Kirkland and Hillside, about 30 miles south of Prescott. A relief train from Kirkland carried the injured to a hos pital in Prescott
 Wooden Smoker Demolished
 The shock of the collision was a terrific one. the wreckage piling up on the demolished track for rods. The wooden smoking car was entirely telescoped and absorbed the shock for the chair car and Pullman. There were many marvellous escapes from death, as passengers in the smoker were thrown through the roof. clear of the wreck and will live. Hardly a piece of timber a foot long was left of this car.
 Governor Campbell was a passenger on this train, returning from Fvagstaff where he attended the joint conven- ton of the Arizona Cattle Growers ard Wool Growers associations. In a tcle- phone message to Mrs. Campbell inn mediately after the accident, Governor Campbell stated that he was unin jured and that he would leave for Phoenix by motor in company with George A Shea, superintendent of the Pioneers Home at Prescott. He was expected to arrive shortly after mid night.
 Injured State Official Works Heroically
 In a previous message, the governor also told of the serious Injuries sus- tained in the accident by E. w. Ste phens, who nevertheless had worked heroically assisting the injured until he collapsed and was taken to the gov ernor's stateroom.
 The cause of the wreck was given in a statement by w. 4. Drake, superin- tendent of this .NRvision of the Santa Ee, 10 nave DGGn Ine IdiluIt oL th1 operator at Skull Valley to deliver an order to the passenger train to meet the cantaloupe train at given point.
 The wreck is said to have been ono of the worst in the history of the state- The three engines were completely de- molished and the roof of the smoker was hurled 100 feet. The Santa Fe early had an investigation under way.
 The passenger train left Ashforl1 at 40 m. and had reached Kirkland a few miles north of Wickenburg, ar $40 With no orders to remain for the arrival of another train, the pas senger pulled out the engineer un- aware that the heavy cantaloupe train was rushing north only a few miles away.
 Has Second Wreck Experience.
 John E. Brown, superintendent of the Phoenix Indian school. was @ pas senger on the southbound train, re- turning from Q trip to Atlantic. City and other points in the East He promptly telephoned Mrs. Brown that he was uninjured.
 This is the second wreck MT. Brown has experienced on this trip. When going north he was the Santa Fe train wrecked near La Junta. Colo. in which two persons were killed. Mr. Brown escaped uninjure0.
 C. R. Lane. father of Eben F. Lane. salesman with the Dwight n. Heard Investment company, also was on the train. The elder Mir. Lane was on his way to Phoenix from Fort Wayne. Indiana, to visit his son. He escaped without injury.
 c. M. Zander. chairman of the state tax commission, also was on the pas sengcr train, returning to Phoenix from the convention at Flagstaff Mir. Zander, in a wire to Mrs. Zander. gave details of the wreck With others he assisted in helping people from tho wreck
 Tom Mix motion picture star. was right on the job to film the scenes of the wreck. He was among the first to arrive. having been at Prescott for the Frontier Days celebration. With his company of 52, he had been taking pictures in the vicinity since the