Show TRAIN WAS AS SAVED Iff BY THE EH ENGINEER Sharp Eyes Averted Wreck on Park City Line I ALTUS TUNNEL GATED IN TRAFFIC WILL BE SUSPENDED UNTIL TOMORROW 1 I The Altus AHus tunnel on the Park City branch of the Bio Rho Grande Western rail il railroad railroad road caved in for few a distance of ot fifty fiftysix fiftysix six Ix feet early yesterday ye morning about three hours before belore the passenger ps train from this tills city was due in that locality No totality attended the occurrence but it will incur s a L lose hoes of about 1500 for tor repairs re end and perhaps half haU that much again in traffic as it will 11 be Impossible to reopen the line In hi less lees than forty fort eight ht hours trains Mains are an annulled annulled annulled The cave was the result of rain which loosened a lot of dirt and rock on the tM mountain side and caused it Jt to come crashing down on top of the tun tunnel tunnel nel Del at i a point about midway mid wa between the to tao to withstand the force of the slide Jot fee O teen Steen sets of timbers save gave ve way completely blocking the t e passage Ige Ps As as can be learned the slide occurred about 7 The regular passenger came along shortly before 10 and as luck or Providence would have hae it Joseph G 0 Bywater the engi engineer engineer neer fleer could see ee front from his cab that some something something I thing had happened even en though the cave was in the middle of the tile tunnel Had not the trainmen taken warning from the unusual appearance of the roof the loaded train might have da h frd into the dark passage and into the t e fallen timbers A horror would have resulted re As it happened the train was brought bought to a standstill outside the mouth of the tunnel and men went ahead d to Upon learning the extent of the darn dam damage age ae Condu tor W A Langford came back to the Parleys canyon halfway house three miles this side of the tun fun tunnel tunnel nel nd and telephoned Superintendent Vel bys office ten for orders The company had bad no engines or cars on the other side of Altus and the train and pas pits passengers had to be back to Salt Lake although word rd was sent to Park City en ett miles distant and some nome teams came from there to transfer bag baggage baggage gage and two to or Ol three passengers Whose business in Park ri City ty was very urgent and who were we re willing ta to t finish the journey under any circumstances News of the accident was spread about town and with it came all aU sorts Or of wild rumors One On of these had the whole tunnel wrecked another thought possibly po the cave tave would not extend over 50 O yards longer than th n the tun l Itself and the Ute very least dis distance distance tance mentioned was feet Chief Engineer Yard and Groves set w out for the scene seene s ene at nt once with a work train tram carrying fI a crew rew of carpenters and section hands hand The length of the cave was found to be fiftysix six feet and the assurance a was given last evening that trains would be running by Saturday A day crew will willbe willbe ill be sent to the scene this morning The tunnel Is 18 1100 feet long and about one year Yf old tI tl was built at a acost acost cost of The TM officials do not consider conder the accident nt of yesterday very serious certainly not serious enough nough t tu ro disable the structure ture permanently perm Mr Yard returned Je from Altus last st evening e Th |