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Show T11E RAILROAD WORLD. General Traffic Manager Mellen of the Union Pacific Expected in the City Tomorrow. ETJMBLINGS IE0I THE BAIL, Messrs. Essseguie, Eccles and Corwin'Go to Juab The Doctors Invited to Visit Salt Lake Notes. This morning , general manager Resseguic, general passenger agent Kecks and superintendent Corwin started star-ted on a trip to .Juab and tho south. They will probably return tomorrow. General tratllc manager Mellen, of the Union I'aeilie is expected to arrive in the citr tomorrow- Ho has been making a trip over the company's lines in Oregon and Washington. He will probably remain iu the city for several days. Contracting freight agent McG'll, of the Union I'aeilie will start on a trip over tho Short line today. A Freight Train Ditched. A freight train on the South Park road was ditched this morning in Platte canyon between Deer creek aud South Platte stations, Colorado, by aland slide.caused by the recent rains. Tho accident occurred ou a sharp curve and the train was too ner tho obstacle to be cheeked. Engineer John O'Brien was buried beneath the capsized engine and frightfully mangled. His body was held fast by a heavy timber lying across his breast and he was pro bit lily instantly instant-ly killed. Fireman Warnook was thrown from tho engine and badly scalded by tho escaping steam but may survive. Joon Morkell, head brakeman, was mixed in with two carloads of lumber which were next the engine and badly injured. There wjro twenty-live loaned loan-ed ears in the train and more than half of them were damaged. Some Wonderful Ore. General Passenger Agent Eccles of tho Union Paeilic- brought back with him from his trip over the Short Line some wonderfully rich specimens of ore. It contains from ."iO to 00 per cent of copper; from 10 to 20 per cent of silver sil-ver and from $." to $15 gold per ton. It is found near Weiser, Idaho, and there are said to be thousands of tons of it iu sight. It has. however, never been developed, de-veloped, being loo far away from the railroad. This spring a boat was built at a cost of $15,000 to transport the ore to Huntington, but tho Snake river failed to furnish sufficient water for this plan. It seems probable now that the Union Pacific w ill takeslcps toward the building of a branch to the ore mountains. : Kiinaiva.v Train at Tintic. The north bound train on the Salt Lake and Western braueh of the Union Paeilic yesterday was running down bill this side of Eureka, when the crew lost control of the train. It slid down tho grade at a rattling pace till it struck tho Y at fronton, Five cars then jumped jump-ed the track. Joseph C. Shaw of Lehi Junction, the head brakeman, jumped aud landed in such a way as to bruiso him from head to foot and perhaps injure in-jure him internally, but without apparently ap-parently breaking any bones. A special went down from this city with a surgeon sur-geon at 11 a.m. and Shaw was taken to tho Ogden hospital. The Doctors Invited. " General Passenger Agent Ronnett of tho Rio Grande Western last night telegraphed tele-graphed General Passenger Agent Hooper of t hey Denver & Rio Grande, requesting hiin to extend to the members mem-bers of the Climatological society, now in convention in Denver, an invitation on the part of the chamber of commerce and tlie Rio Grande Western Railway company to visit Salt Lake City. Territorial f air KxhiblU. The Rio Grande Western will make a half rate tariff on exhibits for the territorial ter-ritorial fair. The exhibits will be billed at full tariff from supplying points, but on presentation of a certificate certifi-cate from the secretary of the fair association asso-ciation will be returned to point of shipment free of charge. The Shop!" to be Rebuilt. The loss by theburningof the Denver & Rio Grande repair shops at Pueblo is estimated by Master Mechanic Kelclier at $10,000. This includes the building, machinery, tools, material and ten box cars. The shops will bo rebuilt at once. Railroad Notes and I'emonaU. Contracting Freight Agent McGill has returned from a trip to Idaho. Thomas Appleton, chief of construction construc-tion of the Union Paeilic, is in the city inspecting worn on tlie new yards here. Between 1500 aub 1S00 men are row employed between Tacoma. Washington, Washing-ton, and Portland, Oregon, on the Union Paeilic lines. .The 'final surveys are being pushed to completion. William Wilhite, a facetious Pullman porter living at St. Louis, has issued an appeal in pamphlet form to his co-laborers, co-laborers, urging the formation of a protective pro-tective company to accumulate porters' savings ami establish homes or club houses in St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, San Francisco and New York. |