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Show 11 Freight Cars Piled Up in l'. P, Railroad Crash Steel cai3 were contorted into scrap iron, coal cars heaped on top of others and freight cars thrown from the track as a northbound north-bound Union Pacific train rammed ram-med its iron nose into- a line of standing cars gear the roundhouse south of Provo late yesterday afternoon. This afternoon wreckers still labored to clear the tracks and twisted remains of eleven cars. Surprisingly, the engine remained re-mained intact, although its headlight head-light nuzzled forward in the load of a coal car while cars were heaped about it in the rear. Five Salt Lake City trainmen barely escaped serious injury as the impact threw two box cars completely out of the train lineup line-up and away from the track. Engineer I. K. Gould told investigators in-vestigators he and Fireman M. Richardson saw the cars and tried to stop the local, hauling 23 cars loaded with ore. The damage dam-age was surprising in view of the trainmen's statement the train was going but three miles per hour when it hit the parked string. The engine gouged one-fourth of the way into the body of the first parked car, filled with coal. The first and second cars parked were buckled. Box cars following the engine were sheered from their' wheels. Other cars piled up behind. The parked cars were shifted onto the main line while a local make-up crew assembled a train. Damage was not yet estimated by officials today. |