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Show BOTH LEGS CUT OFF. Thomas Yard'ey Eun " Over and Killed by a Eapid Transit Car. A MOST PECULIAR ACCIDENT. The Yonac Ulan Jumped Off to Avoid Injury and Met a More Terrible Fate lie Died at the Deseret Hospital Hos-pital Shortly After Xoon Today. A peculiar accident occurred on the Rapid Transit electric road at aboutS:30 this morning morn-ing on North Temple street, as a result of which Thomas Yardley is lying in the Des-eret Des-eret hospital fighting the last fight of human j existence. The accident belongs to that class for which there Is no accounting. Superintendent Superinten-dent Hinckley of the Rapid Transit is mystified mys-tified and all railroaders are at a loss to give a plausible reason for its occurrence. One of the large twelve-wheeled twelve-wheeled cars was going west on North Temple street, which is single-tracked, at the usual rate of speed. Three younjj men stood on the front platform. Directly opposite the temple there is a gravity switch which is not covered by wire. The switch is set for westbound cars, while those going east keep the main track in all cases. The wheels of the front trucks followed the switch, but the back wheels kept the main track. The motorman put on his brake, but the brake-rod broke and the car kept going of its own momentum. While the wheels . were running parallel the body of the car was turned at a direct angle to the tract To the left was the ditch which intersects North Temple street and" the young men became panic stricken and leaped off toward the main track. Two of them landed safely and escaped, es-caped, but Yardley fell. The three wheels passed over his legs, breaking his right thigh, cutting off his right leg and left foot so that they were simply connected by bleeding flesh, and scraped the flesh from his left leg. The car run to the end of tho switch and stopped, after becoming'cramped by the intersection of the switch and main line. ' Tha wounded youth was taken immediately imme-diately to the Dosoret hospital and the company's com-pany's physician of the Rapid Transit called in. - Both legs were amputated. Yardley is conscious and his father is with him. He has been employed in the Union Pacific offices of-fices of this city and is about 19 years of age. His parents live in Perkins' addition. The car wss managed by Conductor Maucs and Metorman Marshall. Just where the blame of the accident lies Is yet to be determined. The fact is clearly manifest that had the unfortunate young man remained on the car there would have been no casnallty. Whether the back -trucks in keeping the main line, Instead of following the front wheels on the switch, is due to negligence of the company in not providing proper safety switches remains yet to be seen. Later The unfortunate young man died at V o'clock-this afternoon. - ( ' |