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Show PASSENGERS GET SCARE. Inter-urban Car Starts to Tumble Down Embankment; Two women Bruised. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Sept. 5 Twent-nlne passengers passen-gers on an Ogden Valley electric car were thrown into a panic tonight when the car started to tumble down Ogden canyon, near the Hermitage hotel. Slowing down for the hotel stop, the car left the rails and the rear wheels slid down the embankment. The front wheelB left the track also, but gouged Into In-to the even ground on t-ie right of way and prevented the entire car and its human hu-man load from plunging to the bottom. At It was, only two of the passengers were injured, and these very slightly. Mrs. D. L.. White, formerly of Murray, but now a resident of Huntsville, and another woman from Huntsville. whose name was not learned, suffered slight bruises when pitched fi om their seats bv ihe accident-Hurts accident-Hurts of both women were so slight that they were able to go to their homes in automobiles. The twenty-seven passengers pas-sengers and Conductor John W. Rohln-son Rohln-son and Motorman Willard Jessop were unscathed. Spreading of the rails is supposed to have caused the accident. Traffic was maintained on the blockaded line by transferring passengers around the wreck. |