| Show FAT FART FREIGHT CRASHES INTO A COAL TRAIN Engineer Killed and Two Trainmen Injured in Wreck Near Thistle LOCOMOTIVE AND CARS HURLED INTO RIVER FREIGHT MOVING AT HIGH SPEED IN ALLEGED VIOLA VIOLATION VIOLATION VIOLATION TION OF RULES 0 THE DEAD Herbert Warren Fletcher r engi engl engineer J neer killed in leaping l ping from frem his hili I engine I THE INJURED Ernest Frederickson fireman cut and amId bruised by fall from 10 lo locomotive at St Marks hospital J J Jenkins brakeman leg and back injured by faIl fall from froni train trainA A westbound Rio Grande freight frel ht train going at t the rate of miles an hour crashed into the rear end of a coal train standing on the I track beyond Thistle at 5 yes yea yesterday WI morning killing tho the engineer of oC the speeding train and injuring the fireman and the brakeman n The speeding locomotive and fifteen cars laden with coal were thrown Into the river by the force of ot the The engine and the cars curs were al ally ly demolished The track for feet was w torn up The coal train of cars curs was standing on the track tick just beyond the Thistle yards preparing to take the siding when the accident occurred The train crew said th the lights and the flags in the rear end of ot this train showed that it was still on the main line Suddenly the freight t came down the time grade around the bend in the track and was within a few hundred feet of the train that was at rest before the danger was discovered Engineers Skull Fractured Engineer Herbert W Fletcher of the incoming train leaped from his Income Uv and ad was hurled burled to the ground wun such BROIl force that his lite skull was fractured and hits his death was Y In tI U the man of 14 urt ai J Jenkins the brakeman brakman on n the front fr nt end mid of the train managed to get set off the train without serious injuries Freder Frederickson FrederIckson Frederickson ickson was painfully euf cul and bruised by the fall He was brought to Sal SalE Sail Lake and taken to St Marks hospital It was ivan thought at first that he wa wat internally injured Dr Bascom how however ho hoever however ever who is attending him could find no evidence of any injury other than his Ills severe bruises and lacerations laceration Jen Jenkins Jenkins Jenkins kins wrenched his back and his leg but was able to go to his home in Salt Lake When the locomotive of the incoming train struck the way car of the coal coaltrain coaltrain coaltrain train the car telescoped and then was thrown over the top of the locomotive The engine continued to plow through the time coal train until it had derailed fifteen teen of the curs Then it went over on Oil its side mile and a rolled into the Spanish Fork river near the truck Cars Thrown Into River Most of the cars lars were thrown into the Ute river rier strewing the coal for hundreds h of ot feet Ceet ih it all directions The care cars of at the Uie incoming train were ere derailed but none of them went over The track wa was torn up by for feet and amid anda amida a great furrow ploughed in the road roadbed roadbed bed bedTime The Time cause enuse of the wreck has not yet been ascertained The train was go going 0 ing at a much greater speed it is al alleged alleged alleged than the rules of ot the road permit at this point Coming around this bend bond and into the Thistle yards the engi engineer engineer engineer neer is ordered to have his locomotive under control which means moons tat the speed shall not exceed eight miles an hour The fact that the train was go Continued on Page 8 FAST FREIGHT CRASHES INTO NTO I A COAL CO L TRAIN TRAI N Continued From Page 1 ing illg into Thistle at the speed of at thirty five miles an hour has given rise to the theory theor on the part of some of the trainmen that the engineer had fallen asleep at the throttle The fireman said that he did lid not think that Fletcher was asleep but that he must have in some manner lost control of his engine He said that hat he did not know the train was as near Thistle as it was until he saw the coal coaltrain coaltrain coaltrain train on the track only a few fe feet ahead The engineers lips are sealed Fletchers body was brought to Salt Lake at noon yesterday and taken to the undertaking rooms room of S D Evans He lIe lived at West Fifth South street He 11 was 33 years ears old and had been in inthe Inthe inthe the employ of the Rio Grande Western for several years ears The funeral ar arrangements arrangements arrangements have not yet been com corn completed completed but the services will probably be bo held Tuesday afternoon under the tile auspices of the Elks lodge of which Sir Mr Ir Fletcher was a member He is survived by a widow and three small smail i hildren With his face and arms swathed in bandages Ernest Frederickson the fireman of the which collided with the coal train at St Marks larks hos lios hospital hospital pital last night told the story sto of the collision I 1 was busy bus firing up the engine and had not been paying any n attention to Fletcher Sly My attention was first a to the speed at which we were traveling I 1 noticed that the en engineer engineer neer was using a great deal of steam We were then on a hill hili I did not think at the time that it was vas the hill that we e reached just before coming in into Into Into to Thistle but thought it was a hill bill ome tome miles farther up the line lineAs lineAs lineAs As we swung around the bend I saw the coal train apparently only a little way in front of us ut on the main track I 1 glanced at the engineer and saw him himas as he was jumping from the engine I hardly know whether I jumped or fell from the cab I think I merely fell The train was going at the rate ra e of miles milea an hour our lour when the col cot collision collisIon occurred d I 1 think that the en engineer engineer engineer must havi hav lost control of the V and that for some reason he heas was as not able to bring it down to a Mower speed SJ M 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