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Show SPECIAL STRIKES BROKEN RAIL Remarkable Wreck at Wanship. Excursion Train is Derailed While Traveling at High Rate of Speed. Coolness of Engineer and Fireman, Who Stuck to Post, Saved Many Lives. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Utah, May 16. A remarkable wreck occurred on the Union Pacific railway rail-way this morning about one mile north of Wanship, which is thirty miles eaut of here A special passenger train bearing bear-ing 140 Grand Army delegates and their friends, who wero on their way to Ogden for the annual G. A. R encampment, ctruck a broken rail. Jumped the track and bumped over the ties for nearly 300 feet It appears from an Investigation that a broken rail was t-neountered while the train was traveling at the late of forty miles an hour The engine left the track first, derailing tho cars. Tho engines nnd couches w-nl flying over the ties from one side to the other, and the women were screaming with alarm. No One Was Injured-Strange Injured-Strange as it may seem, no Injuries were sustained, but Abraham Lubeck, a Park Mty oung man, accompanied hy ills wife and mother and two of his sisters, suffered an attack of heart-failure, heart-failure, as a result of his fright, and was carried from the train in a state of unconsciousness. un-consciousness. Ho was later conveyed back to his home In Park t'lty, Where his condition was said to be critical. The other passengers walked to Wanship. anil waited for an engine to com" from Echo to brlnp their train on from Ogch-n. rhe result of tho accident was the Park City train, duo here at 10 o clock, did not arrive hero until 12.13 o'clock, and Hancock post of tho G. A. R. could not take part In Die parade, Praise for Train Crew. The engineer and fireman of tho wrecked train, whose names can not bo learned, were glvon tho highest commendation commen-dation by tho passengers. It was said that if the engineer had not stuck to his post tho loss of life would have been heavy Had th train gone fifty feet farther it would have run into a bridge, and would undoubtedly have been badly wrecked. |
