Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-11-15 | Page 35 | Runaway Rig is Struck by Train

RUNAWAY RIG is I STRUCK BY TRAIN I Oscar Tripp Is Severely Injured and One of His Horses Is Destroyed Struck by b a southbound Rio Grande train Oscar Tripp driving a team was badly injured near the Seven Seventeenth Seventeenth Seventeenth street crossing in Murray Murra at 9 last night He was hurled from tram his rig by b the force torce of or the collision and two deep flesh wounds one twelve inches and the other six inches long were In Inflicted inflicted In his left hip Though the force with which he lie was hurled through the air all rendered him In Insensible Insensible insensible sensible he will recover Dr A A Bird of or Murray Murra to whose home he lIe was hur hurried hurried ried ned for tor medical attendance announced after midnight that Tripp had Improved so that he lie could be taken home and he will recover unless Internal Injuries de develop develop elop Tripp was driving his team of ot horses back to his home borne In having carried a load Joad of ot sugar beets beet to the fac factory factory tory When the horses horse were going across the Seventeenth street crossing they the be became became became came frightened and turned and dashed up the railroad tracks About yards from the crossing the train crashed into the outfit just as the horses were trying to pull the wagon out of at the tracks One horse was wass so badly mangled that It had to be shot while the tle other horse escaped The wagon was turned into kindling wood