Show FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT A two year old child cat to pieces by the D R G W on wednesday the ath of the present month a shocking and fatal accident occurred at hect jordan ten miles south of this city by which a tyro year old girl was cut in two arid almost instantly killed by a D B G W railway train carl Andria aon and his family have a small house at west jordan about 60 rods west of the D K G W at bingham junction on the afternoon of the day named mrs andriksons Andria sons little daughter hilda maria was out in the yard with her mother and started for the house as was supposed instead of jiuing inside she went out on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side the street is a narrow one and in the centre is the D K G W track to bingham the grade toward the river being quite heavy the unfortunate child had not been away fromherz from her mother more than two or three minutes when a train of three loaded ore care and a locomotive came down the grade backing at about nine miles per hour As it approached the schoolhouse two boyd on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails they signaled the engineer who applied the brakes but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and her on the rails the entire train passed over the body at the hips mangling it horribly the accident was observed by a number of children school being in at the time and they came trooping out and beheld a terrible scene mrs Aad came to look for her babe as soon ax ha discovered it wai not in the house and got on to the just as the train passed over it she rushed frantically forward and grasped the child carrying the bleeding form in bouse then she discovered that she had picked up only the trunk of the body one leg and the entrails were left on the track from which ties gathered them into a pan and conveyed them to the house the father had left some time before for his work at a smelter A was dispatched after him to convey the sad tidings and it was a couple of hours before he got back to hig home in the meantime an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitness es taken the coroners verdict is as follows OF UTAH salt lake county west jordan precinct an inquisition holden at wet jordan in west jordan Precinct Salt lake county on the ath day of february 1888 before isaac hamson justice of said precinct upon the body of hilda andreason And there lying dead by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed the said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said hilda andreason And was killed by can owned by the denver rio grande western railway Kail way and that it was purely accidental no blame being attached to tha railway employed emp loyes in testimony whereof said jurors have hereto set their hands the day nd year aforesaid ALLAH HALL JOSEPH MILLS jurors funeral took place on auary alth the family are plunged into grief over the terrible affair and mrs andreason And is especially seriously affected every time a train pisses the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses the bereaved family have the sympathy af pf the entire settlement where they live news |