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Show TRAIN KILLS S. L CONDUCTOR IN YARDS HERE Edward F. Brown, 62. of 458 South Eighth West street, Salt Lake City, conductor for the Denver Den-ver and Rio Grande Western il-road, il-road, was fatally injured when he slipped and fell in front of an east-bound east-bound D. , and R. G. W. train, switching at Springville, at 8:40 a. m. Saturday. He died In a Salt Lake hospital at 2:10 p. m. Mr. Brown's left leg was severe! just below the knee when it was ground under the wheels of the locomotive. loc-omotive. According to informatibn received here, he had beon standing on the footboard at tho f:-ont of tho engine and fell. He was r"Rried to a local hospital, where efforts to save His life failed. F. H. Welch of the Midrrley apartments apart-ments was engineer on to train. Mr. Brown was born nt Mineral Ridge, Ohio, May 17. 1867, and came to Salt Lake 28 years ago. He had been employed as a conductor by the railroad since coming to this city. He was a member of tho Order Or-der of Railroad Conductors, loral No. 395; member of Progress lodgo No. 22, F. and A. M., a member of the Scottish Rite Masons and a Shriner. Surviving are his widow, Mra. Florence Lewis Brown; children, Mrs. L. R. Hendrickson of . San Fracisco, Mrs. R. J. Hendrickson of Los Angeles, and Betty Jeanne and Lewis Brown of Salt Lake, and a brother, George Brown of Mineral Ridge. |