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Show 10 HEME! PERISH ifj mm WRECK Heavily Loaded Trains Collide Col-lide Head-on Near Soda Springs. Two firemen, A. J. .Wossa and M. II. Davis, were killed, and F. B. Cannon, a brokoman, lost his right leg, In a wreck of two frolght trains that occurred on the Oregon Short Line near Soda Springs early yesterday morning. Tho trains, both of which wore extras, had orders to pass At a siding just west of Soda Springs. Tho engineer of the westbound west-bound train lost control of his engine on a. heavy 1 per cent grade, his report stating stat-ing that his air failed him, and was unable un-able to tako th olding according to orders, or-ders, with the result that there was a head-on collision Just west of tho siding. sid-ing. A. J. Weastv was killed outright In the wrcok and the body of M. JL Davis had not been found late yosterday afternoon, the supposition being that It was under the debris, It being practically impossible that tho man could Uvo there. ISxtra 1106, westbound, had forty-two cars of coal, most of which were of the cumbersome battleship type, and extra 10(11, eantbound, had forty-nine empties. Twenty-one cars wero wrecked and damaged dam-aged to the extent of about ?G000, and tho onglnea woro badly Jammed and damaged. dam-aged. Ponding the construction of t shoo-fly track, It was necessary to detour some of tho tralnH of the company by way of Ogden and McCammon. According to reports re-ports recelvod at the offices of the company com-pany In this city yesterday afteroon, It was estimated that tho trade would be cleared before midnight last night. Cause of the wreck will be investigated a3 soon a3 all the evidence can bo gathered. |