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Show BAD WRECK CAUSED BY A BROKEN AXLE Spcclul to The Tribune. OGDItSN, May 7 A. broken nxlc on a refrigerator car caused a bad wreck on tho Salt Lake division of tho Southern Pacillc at 3:50 o'clock this morning, when a fast fruit train took the ditch at Toy a station scventy-flvc. miles cant of Sparks. Nev. The train was running at a. good rato of spfed when tho accident occurred. Five of the refrigerator care were piled Into a mass of wreckage and California fruit of all kinds wna scattered a distance dis-tance of several hundred yards along the track. The engine did not leave the track and neither JBnglncer Kountr.. Conductor Mitchell nor the members of the crew was Injured. Traffic over the lino was delayed for several hours while wrecking trains from Ogden and Sparks cleared away .the debris. Superintendent E. X. Manson left for the scene of the wreck in his private car as soon as he received word of the accident this morning. |