Show A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS A killed thiron 11 off tin 1110 track A smashup up it becomes our painful duty today to chronicle three accidents accident zi by one of which a young and bronil promising sing life e was sas prematurely prema y cut short the first and nud f fatal tal c casualty asu alty occurred on oil saturday evening near lucin on mhd C P R it it appears that a freight frei glit train coming eastward broke in two and brakesman ed salmon endeavoring to pauple the disconnected sections jumped from one car to another when the section that lind first fint broken loose parted once more inore and the shock hurled lie the unfortunate man mail on oil the track the wheels passing diagonally ago nally over his bedy body cutting the left thigh from front the front inflicting inflicting r a fearful wound which proved fatal fital iu in a couple of hours when the suffering man mail was relieved f from roni liis his a agonizing 17 i pains by the cold touch of F d death n 15 the he remains were brought into this city sunday mornin morning gand and embalmed embalm ed by sir mr Pres baw the young man mail who was thus pre prematurely mattl rely cut short in the prim roset boac time inic of life bore an excellent character and was much esteemed by all his friends and acquaintances of whom he lie had made many during the three years he be served on oil the P track his loss is much deplored the salu e evening on n which tai the e cormer former fatality took place another though fortunately less sarious serious accident occurred on the utah tk northern brackat track at the crossing with the lane to marriotti Marri Karri otts settlement two men albert and AV wallace the latter of plain ity were driving towards mari lotta where the former party wished to visit a brother just as th they were crossing the track theu N AN passenger train no northbound north bound came along along and struck the vehicle giving P ing an impetus that the iv whole outfit borse horses s wagon and inmates were hurled burled 48 feet it was a most marvelous escape for of the two men received only a scalp wound which was afterward sewed up by dr mitchell of this city and wallace was bruised en on his arm not material materially ly one of the horses broke a leg and had to be shot while the other animal escaped unhurt chiq morning another railroad collision caused some temporary excitement cit ement at the U C depot engineer jeff was following up the regular pass passenger train from salt lake city on a special engine when approaching the main crossing of the tile C P and V TT C tracks lie observed the P switch engine on the C P track and came cime to a dead stop antil until the latter had passed the Vr crossing and signaled him to pro ceca eastward no sooner had bad he reached the cro crossing si sing i when U P engino no 64 came along from the south backing up and dashed with a heavy thud info the U engine neither engineer gincer ea is is to blamo blame as neither neit lier had seen the other approaching owing to the C P train causing ng sui n obstruction to their view T the damage to the U C engine consists in the bursting odthe of the cover off the right cylinder battering the steam chest and front step and bending abe main rod no person was injured and this forenoon the engine was wa taken to salt lake for repairs |