Show WOMAN KILLED AT mrs thompson struck by a rio grande train BODY HORRIBLY MUTILATED I 1 ah S she he was the tha wife bif 0 of a workman at uio the germania Ger manla sr smelter elter and was carrying her husbands Husu ands dinner to hun him leaves severi seven motherless children Chil dien story of an eye witness of the accident Anne thomine baarle Thomp thompson Soni had bad blithely prepared her husbands dinner as and id started down the road with the tin pall bound for the berm arda smelter utterly unconscious of 0 impending danger she crossed the track of 0 the rio grande western railway and an instant later was hurled to her death by the train due at salt lake at a in yesterday the train was no 7 from eureka and it was some minutes behind time the accident happened shortly utter after 10 0 clock so at this point tho the train was probably ten to twelve minutes late tile the scene of 0 the accident Is 19 at the germania smelter between the works and the office and the crossing cross lne Is the regular road west irom from murray hurray the place Is it a network of tracks oi of both ralli rails oads and the westerns We sterns main line goes past the tha work lit in a a slight alight cut the road which was traversed by mis alis thompson runs down hill as it crosses the iho track and she walked down this incline rather rapidly only to meet her horil lio nible ble death STORY OF THE ACCIDENT codoner coi oner Off offenbach and a tribune reporter were early carly on oil the scene the and grounds were billed with men discussing the sad event while walking to and tic ho along the track was the heart hearl husband nils peter Thomp thompson bon who Is an all oie in the lead works in the group croup also was the section boss boas of 0 the railroad and another man who was said to represent the railroad claim department the only eye wit ness liess to the affair that coull be found was a young man named harry inich dolfl who freely consented to tell his story lie ile was standing up tile the road a bit and saw sirs birs thompson coming from the house carrying a dinner pall just coming west from oft off tho the tracks was afrula a fruit peddler driving a wagon in ili the cut on the incline from th the e tracks mrs airs thompson passed the wagon on its north side and spoke it a minute to the peddler she then continued her walk down the slope and the next thing tho the anit w it ness iness saw was the passenger train fro from the south dash by and strike mrs thompson with terrific force throwing tier her high in the lie air and on the track she was waa evidently then run over as her wounds testified the boy says say a that no vh whistle istle was heard and that seven others claim the whistle was not sounded the woman crau crawled tell from the track and died on the path leading from the office to the works about fifty feet from tho the crossing she rho only lived a lew few moments the train ran coith about 3 bards ards before it was stopped it then backed down to the scene of the accident and its trainmen wele ready to assist in eiery dayi wa but it was too late THO THC HUSBANDS ACCOUNT N P thompson was seen next he stated that lie had left ills his wife early in the morning she being in tile the brightest mood at the time of the accident he was working in ili the upper shed hauling ore and looking out saw the passenger train stop at tho the curve an all unusual proceeding he then saw people running toward the office and joined them only to find the dead and mangled body of 0 his wife lying in tho the pat path and surrounded by an excited group an inquest will be held th this is morning and coroner offenbach was busy last night getting witnesses T the 11 a indu inquest est will be held at the home of mr thompson where the th body lies iles the Av omans right arm was broken and crushed frightfully all her other limbs were broken and her head and body were covered with bruises and contusions she has been in ili utah only three and 1 I a halt half years having come fro from den maik her husband is a hardworking hard Z working man in an and well liked by hla his fellow workmen A family of seven children Is left motherless the youngest being a year and a halt half old mrs thompson was in n her thirty seventh year the funeral will be held komorow to find and the interment will be at the big cottonwood cemetery |