Show I ENtIINEER9S AWFUL LDEATKI 4 Cut in Two Under the Wheels of His Train Which Ran at Jig v Speed Onto a Sidetrack and Crashed 1 < 7 Into Cement Works v M L t i l t 2 J IW It t I No 1 Rio Gramlo AVestern mall ran 7 iuto an open switch yesterday afternoon I f after-noon Engineer William Konold Jumped and was killed and the whole train derailed de-railed except the Pullman Tho accident j acci-dent happened at the Cement works on Eighth South and the corner oC the I mill was torn away by the front of tho baggage car striking It Crowds visited vis-ited tho scene where a large wrecking I force was at work ail afternoon Fortunately For-tunately none of the passengers were hurt 1 The accident happened about 215 oclock No1 was two hours and thirty a minutes late and engine 37 with live I cars was howling along at a lively rate The regular schedule Is thirty two miles an hour but as it vas late I = L f N s ft WIA f t f r fIrm ± I i Y i L < r r Willinni honolcL I I Scones Aft L the Auivpl of the Wicci In Cc 7rirnriirr i i I I Iv Ip 1LIFWTJ1 1 1g g > cv zJ iY I I 1 f s TuoSpofcBoneatlL the fi aggagcCar l lfcfkttio EnfcfnecVst Body Was Pound is Indicated by an X 1 ± tho train tro running considerably faster than that This sldo of the curve at the south j yard limits Is a switch leading Into the 1 works of the Portland Cement company I the switch being only used for slow r freightcar movements and the track I being close to the rock pile and the I buildings Foreman Doble with the Inn I-nn were switching and were In the 1 S north end of the yard leaving the wItch open at tho south No 1 camu I around the curvo at lightning speed and before any one could think ran Into I the Hiding The rough track first derailed I de-railed the rear truck of the lender and 1 then the baggage car the latter careening 1 careen-ing lo the east and bumping into the rettof the corner of the building The rest caiK followed but the last two escaping f Injury All this happened almost In an J Instant JUMPED TO HIS DEATH The engineer reversed and tried lot t stop it Is said by those who examined t the online and then jumped to the rlKhi He was not only hurt by the 4 i aoiUs on which ho fell hut rolled back e i under the trucks and ran literally cut in two across the abdomen and otherwise if other-wise mutilated The flroman Ernest 4 Johrson remained at his post and escaped I es-caped Injury When the train came to J a atop It was about two car lengths Ln from a box car attached to the switch i I engine rite engine itself was not damaged 4 1 dam-aged except very slight breaki to the S last pair of wheels on tho truck of Iho v tender which were oft the track Vd The mall car and baggage car both I belonging to the Denver Rio Grande l i railroad received the worst damage The Fldo of thc mall car where it struck bt the building was smashed to splinters aDi and the trucks wore damaged The baggage car platform and trucks were t p biokcn and the Denver Rio Grande coach was also damaged on the front r end The Rio Grande Western diner Ogden was very slightly damaged c and will go out on No ii t this morning 1 os The Pullman sleeper wat not damaged at nil and went on to Ogden by special st at5pm The wrecking crew got the diner on rtt n4 the track at C p m and took It to the t nhops where It IB being repaired The other cars will be shopped today They The-y wreck did not delay mainline tratllo pcC of other trains oo all the wrecked earn tb were on the Hiding clear of the main track WILT PLACE THE BLAME t I The full investigation of the wreck I ill bo conducted by I ofllclala of the IM company today to determine the exact lUt causes and to Jlx tho blame General a Superintendent Welby staled Jasl evenIng even-Ing that It would bo premature to blame nuy oiui for the disaster prior 1 to a I thorough and fair Investigation Tliu damage to the curs Air Welby stated Mnuld not exceed liOO B1 Railroad men are generally of the opinion howeer that as No 1 had the right to tho track the blame will be attached at-tached to lilt swllclilng crow whose duty It JK to protect mainIlna regular trains to know how late any train IB I It4 and to be OIL the look out for same That the switch was open when No1 CHJ m H1S dim II I the wholo story thcjwiOQlc and that lC was not more fuiul 13 a I t 4 miracle Ll1 I |