Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-03-23 | Page 5 | Tale of Hoodooed Trunks

TALE OF HOODOOED TRUNKS Remarkablejeries of Accidents on a Journey to the Depot and the Explanation Thereof Crash Bang Dowji on the platform plat-form of the Rio Grand station came a huge pile of trunks from an overloaded over-loaded truck By dodging quickly the baggageman got from under and saved himself from being crushed In tho avalanche ava-lanche Theres a dead man In some of those trunks remarked a superstitious hotel ho-tel runner lie based his opinion on a remarkable remark-able series of accidents that had befallen be-fallen the baggage after It started from the hotel to the depot Tho trunks were loaded upon a transfer wagon of the Salt Lake Transfer company about S oclock At n quarter past S as the wagon was going west on Third west South between Main and West Temple n half dozen trunks on tho apex oi the load toppled oft Into the street To save time the driver of the transfer trans-fer hailed a passing express wagon and helped the expressman reload the baggage bag-gage Just a the task was coniplet ed a Jordan orldgA n car came bowling down the street and struck the bowlng wngon on the express rear ouch The rta surprised horses jumped jumpCd forward and were pro Vented onl only Ith great difliculty from running away Their sudden move meet dislodged the trunks and again threw them upon the car track saln l3ifore they could be reloaded eastbound an castbund Street car eame along and iiis within a Cew alonS inches oC the larg est trunk when es It was standstill brought cc a The tandUI motormon was ably assisted by the 5ore conductor and while the transfer man and the man returned tie hoodooed trunks express to wagon They without further reached thc depot time the accident and the itnxt hoodoo tmo hoodo shoed when the itself wa hagJlgem1 liocled hem r OQ n truck to car and t the door oC thc bagtige cr himThe they tOppdd over almost upon The trunks were hoodooed but not by a all right dead < man it was a hoodoo with nScotch man I A crate ot golf clubs was discovered In the bunch