Show taic recent dig rain storm causes a seventeen cars are over by adiv LANDSLIDE defiles of he grand lodge A 01 W arc here OF ine mae before the court down i Dral Jiu from ta atily of 20 OS THE 1 P A freight train is up by a daml lije mije yesterday roomi Df sir john received the following telegram from bis son mr joseph scow croft who was on his way from the east where he baa been making purchases jor his house send doable team to uintah station double baegy BO we can get home to ilay big wreck in canyon our train on other side ot wreck air immediately de a team for bia eon and in the afternoon joe arrived in town safe and hearty lie gave the following account of the wreck A tram was just passing over the bridge near the devils gate sunday night when it was struck in the middle by big land elide seventeen cars were overturned and piled upon one another and the track was covered with debris our train nas on the other side of the wreck and as soon as ire reached it I 1 started to walk down to see the amash ap at the point where the wreck occurred the mountains are a considerable from the railway track considering the fact that it is in the canyon of tons of mad and dirt and enormous boulders were washed out to alie track on to the train asior the freight train had been struck and wrecked by the land slide a large body of water rame down and washed out about a hundred feet of the track hn mediately wrecked train it looked as it the canyon bad been ripped to pieces by some mighty and ungovernable hand people catching catch inc cieli by the hundreds around the wreck it appeared eliat the muddy waler was dig agreeable to them for they came out near the edge of the river and were easily caught by the band one man I 1 i aw have secured at least two hundred pounds of the finny delicacy As foon as I 1 caw the nature ot the wreck I 1 concluded conlu ded that it would be cletess to until the train could beet through BO I 1 walked down to uintah and telegraphed for a convey abuce in w hibb 1 came into town enst a abort time ago A train was sect up to uintah tj bring the people from the train on the other side of the wreck to ogden were ased to convey them and the V S mail around the wreck bat great difficulty was tn bringing the vehicles the deep mud washed down from atie mountains the land elide and washout are supposed to be the result of a cloud burst in the mountains it will be some time before the w reck can be entirely cleared away and the track made secure acain there were no lives lost in wreck the nearest escape being that of a tramp who rode in an empty box car in the middle of the that were rolled down the bank his fac v as very much swollen and be received several bad bruises on the lower part of the body lie was spen on the streets last night havica walked in from the scene of the wreck |