| Show AN OPEN SWITCH causes wreck on D R G passenger train coolheaded COOL HEADED ENGINEER undoubtedly saves many atves fireman george edgar instantly killed and engineer bywater suffers broken thigh who is to blame is a mystery As a result of an open twitch about feet north ol 01 the R 0 W depoi into which the outgoing passenger train ran wednesday afternoon fireman geo edgar la dead while engineer JOB G bywater lies at the miners hospital with a badly broken leg and but tor bis prompt cool action in the moment 0 great danger the entire train of three coaches would have been wrecked and dozens of men women and chil iren killed and wounded TUB ACCIDENT the train pulled out from the depot at 3 20 p m as usual and was made up of three coaches heaitly laden drawn by engine no 12 engineer bywater bad jut sounded bis yard whistle when people who were leaving the depot platform were horrified to see the engida appear to rear ap and then topple down the embankment and settle on its tide those who were near immediately ran down to where the engine lay and messengers were at once sent up town or physicians and aid the news spread rapidly and soon a of people were hurrying to the scene of ilia disaster the report given out up town was to effect that the entire train bad been wrecked and naturally the alarm was lery great the first men to arrive found engineer bywater lying on the right side of the track suffering great pain fram a broken teg and he was placed upon a stretcher and taken to the hospital search was also commenced for the firemen after the steam which as it escaped from the broken engine rose in a great cloud and enveloped it had been turned off by ball player geo spillman who at con sid erable risk lumped into the cab and closed the valves the fireman s body was seen under the coal which had into the cab and after a half doirs work the unfortunate man was taken out dead hie body was tenderly wrapped in a blanket and removed to the undertaking parlors the corpse was terribly scalded from head to toot the right arm was brodeu and there were several bruises and cuts about lie lead and body death was no doubt instantaneous as the life must have wen crushed out of the man when the aligne went over OTHERS express agent leslie condon was thrown quite heavily by tace sudden jar is the air was applied and be received a ew minor bruises the logan base all players who were changing their clothes in the baggage car were also chalen up 0 brien and bonev receive ng injuries which though quite painful ire not denous it is somewhat remark ible that more damage was not doi e in he baggage car by falling trunk anc axes the passengers ware very much noted but none were hurt engineer bywater states the be was athin about eighty feet of the switch hen he noticed that it wag open he caked to his fireman to amp reversed his engine applied the air and out of the cab window himself the wheels of the engine were evolving rapidly towards town when t turned over the fireman was tillable 0 o escape from the cab his body w hen annd indicating that he bad attempted to get out through the gangway b ut wag too late bywater a he ell struck on a rock ami hia causing the fracture of bis leg AN opt it will probably never be known who was for he being left open when it wag examined it was found to be the lock lying three feet or more from the switch it might have been children who tamed it finding it unlocked but it appears to be a cabe of rank on the part of some one in whatever light it is viewed the passenger train passed over it the laet time at II 11 a it returned from the wye ARRIVES four hours after the accident A ng train arrived bringing with it a private car carrying ft elby master mechanic hickoy wrecking crew ent mccordy assistant and claim agent howard th crew worked all night and by birns nir ns of block and tackle bad the righted and on the track by 11 the next morning the cab was badly wrecked wr eked but outside of this little was done the engine aa seagers were taken down on another train later in the evening and the dexl day the train left the depot aa asua usua 1 TUB MAN geo adgar tho dead fireman 1 javes a wife and family of eix i he carried no insurance lie had 1 eai in the railroad business all i ind biad been on thin run about boeni coara he was well known in this city nd was very popular with hia if alloi r work men and all who knew anni two years ago ho was on the sam e en gioe on which he died when it ran into in open switch near the sampler i beater jumped from the cab rondow at that time the deia man wa p to hr home la the city Thu t morn ng where lil grief crazed wi ie heart broken cb illren awaited b in joseph 0 bywater la widely in salt lake and the state bean ff prominent in circles t ie improving nicely at the local lux and will doubtless lolly recover right leg was broken near the t high the gentleman t as been on every haab lor bis aik boum performance of duty and but fo r li fearlessness duany would hayo killed and bounded by apply ing the air and abi engine th bad practically at a standstill when the eng ne went over and for ti at rea on alone tibey did not leave the rails also tina the necona fatal accident to occur on this branchi bran cli a I 1 been killed borne he ago by the wreck ing ot a r daway eng ne in lambs canyon an on the death nt kreinan 2 dair will be held edne aday morning liba Wad diton jr oto joseph fares baying ix en as i i ury thay tl e remaina jhb |
