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Show Frightfal Accident. A frightfal accident occurred at the Utah Central depot yesterday alter-noon, alter-noon, by which a young man named Willard Davis was killed. In company com-pany with a friend he was passing through the yard at a time when . some freight cars were being switched. Though previously an employe he is : not now engaged in the yard, but be- J ing acqu iint-d with the men, stepped in between the rare to couple them. , A friend called and told him to jump out, which he attempted to d, when he was caught by the brake roi aod thrown down. He fell ou the rail, on which his bo.iy re-ttd leDgthwie. The wbtcl pre;-ed tightly on his back and the rear part of his thigh, but being held by the Brake, he was not then run over. Id this condition he was forced along the rail a distance of about two rods uu:il be reaihed a frog when hU clothes fastened lo one of the rails and he was run over and mashed and mangled terribly. By tae time he had reached the frog his back was eplit or cut open by the pressure of the wheel. Toe friend who was with him, during thia time, had been endeavoring to pull him out the train of course moving slowly and on bo doing had somewhat some-what turned his body, in consequence of which the wheel passed over him neither horizontally nor perpendicularly, perpendicu-larly, but between the two, instead of splitting him up, as it would otherwise other-wise have done. He was immediately immediate-ly extracted and carried to the engine house, and remained conscious until his death, which occurred about an hour alterwards, the accident happening hap-pening at alwut 3 30. The Drs. Richards Rich-ards were immediately sent for, but the mother of tho young man appeared ap-peared on the ground before their arrival. She was led back home to prepare for his arrival, a litter being prepared at the time with which to take him home. At this time he complained very much of his arm, which had been broken, and the mother was consequently led to believe that he had escaped without lurther injury. As soon as he was laid in the engine house, he seamed to realize that the accident would prove fatal, and bade his friend goodbye, good-bye, at the same time enjoining him to tell the boys not to be as careless as he had been. He was carried home, and while the doctors were undressing undress-ing him, requested them to put him to Bleep. A little chloroform was thereupon administered. Upon opening open-ing hia apparel, the surgeons knew that nothing could be done for him further than to render him as com-(ortuble com-(ortuble ub possible. The examination proved that he was most frightfully mangled, scarcely any part of hia person, with the exception of the head, escaping uninjured. The shock was no great that he did not suffer as terriby as he would have done had the accident been less severe. He was aired between IS and 20. It is said that a brother of this youug man came very near losing his life in the same manner about a year axo, but was fortunately saved. It seems that the depot yard, notwithstanding not-withstanding the fact that the public are prohibited from entering it except on business, is made a public thoroughfare, thor-oughfare, men, women and children going through at will. For fear of accidents, the comnanv placed notices in very conspicuous places forbidding the public to enter the yard except as provided. However, as there is no provision of an ordinance on the strength of which people can be arrested ar-rested and punished lor trespass upon breaking any rules of the railroad, (he notice is unheeded. The yard cannot be kept closed, for switching is goiD? on nearly all the time, and just as long as persons go through the yard as tuey do now, just so long will accidents occur. There are no houies ou the block, and there is no necessity for entering the yard except to go and come fron trains and get freight. At times, flying switches are made, and if a woman or child happens to be passing through the yard, and an engine goes one way and a car another, they are apt to oeocme newnuerea anu ruu imo either one or tho other. An ordinanco or a clause of an ordinauco should immediately be passed sustaining the rules of the companies, and making it punishable lor anyone to be in the yard except as provided by the railroad company. It ! is simply protecting the public against itself, and will have an effect that all the warning iu tho world would fail ; to briug about. |