Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-06-18 | Page 14 | Car Accident Averted

p CAR ACCIDENT AVERTED Ninth Avenue Passengers I Have flare a Narrow arrow Escape From flom Danger Without realizing Impending dan danger danger danger ger until it had passed a number of or passengers yesterday sat unconcerned in a 0 Ninth avenue car which was closely following a 0 work train ant and ond saw mw the tho latter laboriously trying to climb the steep grade on B street be between between between tween Sixth and ond Seventh avenues The Th work train became stalled on the tho grade The Tho brakes were applied bu buthe but the train slowly started to back up It gained momentum until It was coming down the tho hill at a n fairly good clip The motorman on the tho passenger passenger ger beer car saw tho the danger and reversing started his car cor back For several hundred feet teet it was W S a race but when tho the work train reached the more level leve ground the tho brakes held and the crash wan Vox WI averted