The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-12-02
MOTOR CAR BREAKS AXLE; FIVE MEN
 ARE KILLED

The Phoenix Messenger brings the following account of the motor car wreck on. the Santa Fe By, : near Wickenburg which occurred on Tues day of last week:
 Five men were killed, one fatally hurt and four injured about 2.3O o'clock Tuesday afternoon when the railway motor car in which they were riding went, over an embankment three miles north of Wickenburg. All were officials and employees of the Santa Fe, some of them holding high positioni, including the superinten- dent and assistant superintendent of the Albuquerque division. of which Phoenix, is part, and the assistant chief engineer for all. the Santa Fe coast lines. M
 The Dead and Injured The Dead:
 William Mathie, Winslow, division superintendent.
 H. c. Story; Prescott, assistant di- vision superintendent.
 Jack A Jaeger, Prescott, assistant division, engineer.
 w. s. Bowman, Wickenburg, road master, Prescott Phoenix district
 w H.. Oliver. Los Angeles. engi- neer grand division. equivalent to assistant chief engineer for all the coast lines: fatally hurt, died on way to Phoenix
 The injured:
 J. E. McNeil. Los Angeles. general track and roadway. inspector for the coast lines, right shoulder broken, cut and bruised.
 Frank D. Kinnie, Winslow, assist ant division engineel, right arm broken. two ribs broken, badly bruised.
 w. F. Martin, Prescott, assistant general bridge and building foreman Albuquerque division, cut and bruised. Roy Stephenson, Prescott, chauf- R. c. Klein. Winslow, division en- gineer. Albuquerque division, scratch ed and slightly bruised
 Roy Stephenson, Prescott, chaut- fer, cut and bruised.
 On Inspection Trip
 The ten men who composed the party. including nearly every high official of the Santa Fe lines in Ari- zona, left Prescott. at $40 o'clock on an inspection trip to Phoenix, ex- pecting to arrive late in the after noon. Instead the party came in at o'clock on special train consist ing of locomotive and caboose, five dead. five hurt and bleeding.
 The accident the most serious or its kind in the state in recent years in number killed. was caused by the breaking of the. front axle of the rail road automobile. a Pope-Hartford with special body, elaborately equip ned to serve as private ear for ny ing trips. Stephenson, the driver estimated the car was going 30 miles an hour.
 When the axle broke. the ear swerved sharply to the right ana plunged down a 1o-foot embankment turning completely over at least once Mathie. Story and Bowman were crushed ,inder the car, Oliver pinned na,tlv nnder it. and Jaeger and the others thrown clear Klein, the: lea st injured. Jagged freight train which was following closely after the car when if came up five or ten minutes later.
 Brought in on Special Train
 Jesse Davis. conductor of the freight. rushed his train into WICK anhIrg and returned with the only doctor and nurse who could be found The injured were given first aid ana .the train proceeded into the village There the locomotive and. caboose were removed to form the special train which rushed the dead and nv 4 ing to Phoenix, with right or way over everything.
 Mathie. Story and Bowman were dead when they were removed iroiii beneath the car Oliver lived for an hour and half. dying about ocioch in the car on the way to Phoenlx -~ Jaeger lived fifteen minutes aIter pc inp nicked LID. The others were aple to walk. though several were stunned by the impact.
 crowd of about 100 people, Hdue 7 1Ip of railroad men, ambulance crews Dhysicians and the curious was wa ing here at Fourth avenue ana JACK sfs6n street when, the special tram ar rived By the light of lanterns anc auto lamps the injured were asslsiee to waiting ambulances and motci cars to be hurried to St. Joseph bosnital while the bodies af the dese were taken to local undertaking eS tablishments-
 Stenbenson was the only unmaF -iad man in the party, and probapil tbe youugest, most of the others De ;,g of middle age. Mathie is sur v;ved hv his widow and three chll dren: Story by a widow anu ", daughters: Jaeger by widow ant +bree children. and Bowman by hi widow Nothing is known here olivpr,s family except he was mai . ried. ue
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