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Show n MlTFi (MfifEar pijfmn wvro) est p rer ihn Efii OF -4 UilJURED IN MISHAP More Than 200 Sheep Killed When Engine and Four Cars Are Derailed One Mile North of Spanish Fork. More than 200 sheep were killed and four Sprinville men, members of the train crew, miraculously escaped injury when the engine and four cars of a Denver and Rio Grande Western freight train left the tracks and turned over, about me mile north of Spanish Span-ish Fork at 7:45 o'clock Tuesday night. The accident happu.l on the Tintic branch line. A faultv switch threw the engine en-gine off the tracks and the four double dtrcked car;; filled with sheep werci dragged with It. Line IWing Cleared Moie than 600 ewes and lambs were loaded into the car.-, one third of which were killed outright in the wreck. Many of other sheep i were crippled, it was reported. The sheep had been loaded on tht ! tiuin at Hillside, near Eureka. ! after being d riven in from the winter range vo be sheared at the i sheds. J Railroad officials and wrecking j crew were at the scene of the accl dent. Wednesday mornim; clearing away the wreckage. Four ti am men worn riding in. the engine when it overturned nono of which wore injured in the accident, acci-dent, 'Phase in the engine were, H. J. Smith, engineer; Otis Payant, fireman ; O. W. Friel and James j Stevens, brake men, all of Spring-; Spring-; ville. K. J. St owe, conduct or, wua the only member uf the train's crew j not riding in the engine at the time of the wreck. local railroad officials were tin-able tin-able to determine llv owners of the sheep, Wednesday. |