Show POOR MEN ARE KillED t perish in an Explosion on I Southern Pacific BOILER OF ENGINE EXPLODES Peculiar Accident Occurs at Lake Hill Utah Seventy Miles Vest of ogden in Which Pour Lives Aro Lost and Locomotive No 1618 De etroycd Cause of Disaster Unknown Un-known as All Who Could Give Information In-formation Were Killed Disaster Occurred Early Yesterday ilorning TRIBUNE SPECIAL Ocdpn Utah March HFour men are dead and a huge locomotive l of the Southern Pacific Is destroyed the result of the explosion of the boiler of englno No ICl while asaUng easthound dchttraln 006 1P e hill scy cnty mllen west of here at 3 oclock this morning DEAD George Wilton Ogden engineer helper help-er engine Erwin A Uphofr Ogden brakeman freight Hoy Munsea Promontory fireman helper engine I William F Myers tramp soldier Gonosco III WHERE EXPLOSION OCCURRED TWo cxplsoslon occurred shortly after 3 i oclock this morning as the train was coming up Lako hill about seventy miles west of this city Tho helper eng en-g Tne In charge of Engineer Wilton and Fireman Munsca had been attached to tho train and started over the hill when the holler of the engine cocplodcd with terrible effct l TORN TO SHREDS The holler of the hugo locomotive was HfleM bodily In tho air and thrown nore than fifty feet from the track nnd literally torn to shreds while curious cu-rious to rcJatc tho trucks did not leave F tho rails Tho tender was also thrown from the track and with the entire upper part of the locomotive complete t ly 1 demolished The front of tho second F engine was stove In but no other dam ago was done to the train FOUR MEN ON ENGINE On the helper were Engineer Wilton Fireman Munsea Brakeman Uphoff of tho freight and Myers the tramp who wng working his way by passing coal The bodies of Uphoft and Wilton were thrown clear of the right of way while that of Myers wau blown backward clear over the second engine and r dropped between the tender and the first car Munsea was found about thirty feet back of the denuded trucks of the helper He was alive but suf i fering from a crushed thigh and horrible hor-rible burns He was also Internally In t jured FRIGHTFULLY SCALDED All of the bodies were frightfully scalded the skin on the face neck and Hands being literally parboiled Up hoff also had his right arm crushed and Myeras skull waft crushed Wilton had several ribs fractured All lton Munsca Were Instantly killed MUNSEA DIES IN HOSPITAL A special was made up at Lake and the bodies of the dead and Injured brought to Ogden Muiwa was Imme diately taken to the hospital but medi cal aid was of no avail and he died nt 3 oclock this afternoon The body waa removed to Llndqulsts undertak ing parlors The bodies of Uphoff and Myers ore at Rlcheys morgue and that of Wilton nt Lnrklns morge SHROUDED IN MYSTERY The cause of the horrible catastrophe is clouded In mystery and probably novor will be known as every man In n position to know Is dead I Is Mil that Munsfa shortly after the acci nrer dent told n friend that just a nee before the explosion he looked at the water gauge nnd that It was bolt full tul which IndicAte that It could not have been lack of water In tho boiler This however Is I seld by railroad men to prove nothing as alkali water often clogs the gaugo to such an extent ore unless It mi I tried conatantly may In dlrite plenty of water when In fact none exlntH In tho boiler Novorthele thp general opinion appear to bo that lack of water was not the cause but Just what was Is n mystery SOMETHING ABOUT DEAD MEN f Wlllllun A Wilton resided ut the cor ner or Monroe avenue and Twenty fourth street with his wife and two children Ho had been In tine employ of the company for evf > ritl yearn ann wan one of Its moHt trusted employees Besides his Immediate family two sis tern emrvlvi him Mr Drew of Ogden and Mrs Alexander of Kelton IPHOFF A YOUNG MAN Erwin A Uphoff waa 1 young man 2 years of nge who came to Ogdwi but n short time ago and accepted a position as fireman on the Southern Pacific He has been residing with his brother W C Uphoff commissary agent of the Soul r Pacific at 2750 Grant avenue J MYERS AN OLD SOLDIER William F Myers was an exsoldier who was working his way across the I country He had been allowed to ride on the helper engine working his way I by passinG coal A letter from his mother at Gcnfcsfio Iii and two cer i Uneaten of military service revealed 1 his Identity One of the certificates I showed that ho had enlisted In tho Seventh Sev-enth United States Infantry In 18D1 and was discharged at Fort Logan Colo in 181 The other showed that he had reenlisted In company G Tenth Infantry July 22 1S95 and wag discharged dis-charged at Tampa Fin July 21USOR He was from Dubuque In His mother has been notified MUNSEA FROM PROMONTORY Leroy Munsea the dead fireman was 19 years and 7 months old Ho resided at Promontory with his parents and had been In the employ of the Southern Pacific but n short time His father however la one of the oldest and most trusted employees of the company and the young mans untimely end will be mourned by every employee of the Salt Lake division of the road The body will be prepared for burial by Undertaker Under-taker Lindqulst and shipped to Promontory Promon-tory for Interment About 7 oclock last night Undertaker Ritchie received a telegram from L F l f T pi f J t 1 r t j I J vg t i F r1 jII 4 t I f r i 1 i 1 l 1 i l a q i I tJ > 4 = D l i < h a t 4 3 J j t H nl U > f r i I 1 I 4lJ T l y zr J t kk 70 I I I I 1 I IIJ i ch < J i se5 ss ft J r 4 r f V View Showing How Boiler Was Torn Photo hy Johnson Augusta Myers at Genesco lit mother of William F Myers thp supposed tram p The tclegrarn n tTUQt3 < efn dertaker to embalm thebody and ship it I home I |