Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-01-03 | Page 5 | Two Men Killed in Freight Train Wreck

TWO MEN KILLED IN FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK ELKO. Nov.. Jan. 2. A fatal wreck occurrod In Uho west end of the Elko railroad yards at 11:15 a. m. today. Two men were killed, three Injured and eleven cars smashed to oplintera and piled up In terrible confusion. The local freight train, westbound, was-standing on a sidetrack side-track walling for freight No. 1728. ttn-Klnccr ttn-Klnccr Kcln left Ills ciminc for a moment, when It started up. Tho fireman was on or of tut lender, pasnug cal to tno front end and thinking tho engineer waa Ifci the cab, paid no attention to the fact that the- engine had started. Train No. 17"S was pulling In at the rale of twenty-live- miles an hour and the engine nna three airs had pa5j4l the swluh. when the runaway cnglno Ktru ilc ilic rear end of the llfth car and ploughed through It and Into tho four earn following. Five tramps wero In tho sixth and seventh cars of the onntbound train. Two of thes were ho badly mangled that thov could hardly be recognised as human hu-man brings. Another was Injured about the head and body, another had his hip broken and a fifth escaped uninjured, pno of the mon killed was G. T. Ballard of Moore. Mont. Tho name of the other has not been learned. The Garllr. wrecker In clearing aWay the debris. Trafllc will be tied up for about elKht hours. Nono of tho traln-mon traln-mon were Injured.