Show THE UTAH MAILS IN SMOKE the disastrous wreck on the union i pacific yesterday efrom fridays DAILY the cause of the westbound union pacific fast mail being ditched yesterday at sydney nebraska was due to the snapping of a frosted rail the two locomotives passed over in safety one baggage two mail cars three sleepers and a dining car constituted the traina faie broke out simultaneously in the baggage anil a mail car and quickly communicated munica ted to the other mail car and two sleepers and all of these were totally destroyed there being no firefighting fire fighting facilities at hand alie entire mail an unusually heavy consignment weighed forty tons of this all the wyoming idaho utah nevada oregon california Cali tornia montana and washington letters except a few for utah were consumed papers for oregon california montana and wyoming i ere saved with a part of those for utah thirty four registered through pouches containing twenty five pieces each were burned together with a trunk and t vo hundred way registered packages the pouch for Itaw lins wyo and one for san francisco were saved dobbins was badly bruised chief postal clerk morrow w aa rescued from a pile of burning mail bags and an old man and woman were injured captain white superintendent of the service from chicago west is on the scene |