Show I f fr t r WRECK PLOT TIES PILED ON nN IRA TRACK K IN CANYON Engineers Engineer's Quick Wit Saves I I Park City Passengers as Barrier Banier Is Encountered Blame Put on Radicals I p pILED in the aisles s thrown n together er with the shock of sudden stopping stopping stop stop- ping ping- passengers on the Park ark City train narrowly escaped death yesterday yester estel day afternoon when Engineer Joseph G. G Bywater brought lu's lus engine to a 3 astop astop stop with the tho fender nose deep in a pile of ties tics crossed criss on the rails The barrier was placed at the tho west west- em em extremity of a curve urve one half mile belo below the Parleys Parley's cnn canyon on water waterworks works A granite abutment hid tho the trap from view On the side off-side a steep embankment makes a a. sheer fall fail of or thirty feet to the canyon bed Consensus of ot opinion among tho Intended Intended in intended In- In tended victims last night placed re- re re-i re for the near c catastrophe o on radicals df aIs als recently expelled tr from m Park City mines because of or their un un- American propaganda Theory of ot banditry ban ban- was discounted because mere I stopping of or the train would have Junc sufficed suf sur gun Sun men intent on loot J tT Suit The rho train left let Park City for tor Salt Lake Lahe at 3 As As Ai it passed passel th the waterworks and entered Into the al almost almost al- al most level 10 stretch of or track near tho the can canyon on mouth Engineer Bywater veteran vet et eran pilot on the line was opening up the tho steam valve yal to get into Su Sugar r station on time Glancing from his hla cab ea window ho saw sat the death snare less than feet feat awa away as ho rounded round round- c ed eti tho the tho cur p at the four and one half mlle mile post Ho thought it at first to tobe tobo tobo bo be a L handcar and threw on tho the brakes in the chair s so- so quickly that passengers coaches to the the- rear icar piled In In the tho aisles and thrown h heavily to tho the floors The shock of sudden stop led passengers passengers pas pas- to belle believe tho the train was wan wrecked In collision There was a second sec see ond ontI of and then tho the cries of ot children ren an and the h hysteria of or excited women realizing that were un un- hurt huit added t to to- the bewilderment of ot the th miners who composed the thc bulk of or the urban commuters commuters- l' l JI U UA A As 4 the thc passengers piled from the coaches along alonS' tho the right of t way some of oC the cool cooler heads caught sight o of three slinking figures halt half hid bid L by brush the hillside more than yards up ul Engineer Dwater recruited help helt Itch front from the passengers fliRt ami removed remo tho the Obstruction Thero There wore were nine tics In all nIl seven en of or them laid cross criss-cross cross the theother other ther iv two o stuck upright to a assure sur the derailing of oC the train and nd Its Ith tation tallon over tho ho cliff r P Four moro more such pil s wore subsequently found Cound at Intervals Inter of oC OO yards down the track trick The Tho wo would would-be ld-be ld wreckers wreck wreck- ers had planned for sure auro destruction of ot the train and the almost certain death of oC It Its occupants 10 nl Henry Lee chief engineer of or the Silver Sil King Com Consolidated ol some sonie other and antI about fifty miners who have ha remained at nt work during durin the recent 1 W. 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W t disturbances In Inthe Inthe the silver er camp were vere aboard the train Thero There were serc a number of business men anti and several women and children en route to tho city who were present at the tho near neal cata catastrophe expressed d an nn opinion last night that tho tile wreck had been Intended Intend Intend- ed as r revenge Yen e for tor the tho recent cent expulsion of oC radicals from Park eft City The miscarriage miscarriage mis mis- carriage of oC of the plot Is credited to the skill and antI caution of oC Engineer l Bywater who has 1135 been running on tho the lino line over since It was was built several years ars ago aka Among tho lo ono one group of ot minors miners w were we're were rc escorting a comrade comrade- to a hospital Thu Tho Injured d was was tho the victim victim vic vie tim of a eln ca la tn one of oC the tho mine tunnels tun tun- nels yesterday morning His legs logs were badly crushed hotI and medical attention nUon and ho hospital care tare were deemed of Im- Im necessity Whether the a additional shock occasioned occa occa- slotted b by tho the near wreck will have an any apon this thiN mit ultimate recovery re- re covery authorities of or tho the Holy Cross where whore he was taken talen for Cor treatment treat treat- mont ment could not say 81 last latH night Office In nt The Tho Incident was as reported to tp to the sheriffs sheriff's office and amI Deputy Deput Sheriff Arthur r Ar- thur Walter Waller conducted an In e tha- tha tion The Tue footprints Q of three men found foun It leading from roni the tie stacks above o the right of wa way to where whore the obstructions wore were erected NI lIL fell 0 before the Investigation had been completed coot com and nud the thc destination of oC tho learned Would be wreckers was not The Tho trail will bo be taken up at dawn this morning b by a n posse who will en- en v ivor Ic-ivor to run down and apprehend the tho trio who es escaped into tho the hills bills as us they a- a Continued on on pago page 7 FOIlS t-t t RAil ML WRECK PLOT Continued from Page Paie 1 J. razed tho the failure of ot their attempt at nt n r Gives Given Theory dont don't o belle it was a holdup for tor torIn In Inich reh a caso case simply the stopping of ot til thuan train aln would have havo been sufficient to secure whatever loot the they said ald Engineer Bywater last nig niA The only explanation that has bas oc oared red to me is that some somo radicals led Waed to destroy destro tho the train ho he add tho collapse of or tho the Sing Sing- hat har Canyon on strike two weeks ago aso I I. I W V. leaders lenders transferred their ac- ac ts l to Park City When thc they ado ad ad- o l destruction of ot tho the government o as o 0 tenet of or their doctrine tho the cHI cHI- I enor Park City ordered the to leave camp |