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Show SMELTER EMPLOYEE AT TOOELE KILLED TOOELE, Dec. 24 Joshua Brown, 40 years of age, an employee of the International Interna-tional smelter, was run down aJid instantly in-stantly killed about 6 o'clock tonight by a dummy train of the Tooele Valley railroad rail-road here, Neil Dodge, a fellow workman, was struck and hurled into a snowbank at the side of the right of way, but escaped with bad bruises. Although he was stunned for a quarter of an hour after the acci- . dent, he managed to walk to town, a distance dis-tance of more than a mile, and gave news of the mishap. The train runs between Tooele and the smelter. The workmen usually ride on Hie train to and from their work. Tonight Brown and Dodge started to wnlk to town. They met the train, arid got off thtf track. They returned to the track, and the train, for some unknown reason, was backed into them. Brown was mangled man-gled beneath the wheels. He was married and I he father of sev- : eral children. Jiis father, Robert Brown. I is a county commissioner of Tooele j county. |