Show WRECK WAS AS CAUSED BY GREASING RAILS D. D R. R G. G Officials Say That Hat Threats Were Mere Made Hade Before Be Be- B Bete te fore Bingham Copper Belt Bell Tragedy and Evi Evidence vi dence Is Found to Prove That Four Men Lost host Lives tics to Satisfy a Craving for forIt Revenge It II was ivas premeditated wholesale murder not murder not an accident when accident an ore train on the Copper Be Belt t branch of o the Denver Rio Grande railroad at ran away last Thursday morning causing the dea death th of four men and injury to nine others Such is s the declaration of D D. R. R G. G officials They TIle say that men who disagreed with the company and left it itu service ser threatened to punish t-h t those se taking their places place even if the they had to grease the track for half a mile And the officials sa say investigation proved cd that the rails were greased and for that reason only the pre re train got out from und under r control rushed down the st steep ep grade at terrific speed jumped d from the track and plunged through build buildings below The county attorney will be asked to take charge of the ca case cae e and issue complaints against men wh who m made macic de threats The Tho railroad men assert that the they have e secured of 0 the grease crease with which the they ti-ity allege the tracks were smeared for tor fora tora a distance of seventy ent e feet teet The JT grease se is being an analyzed by a chemist to determine the exact nature of the sub sub- stance tance The officials declare that when hen I the train reached that part of or the track I which they s 's say was wan greased creased eased It was traveling trav tray ling ding at a rate rato of or speed not in excess ol or six miles an hour Within a distance of or feet the they say eay the train attained a speed of ot twenty miles mites an hour and when it struck the fatal curve Its added speed hurled It from tho track trade and upon tho the b buildings s below In which sleeping Bleeping men were killed and maimed d. d It i II i understood that complaints will wilt I I bo bc requested on chat charges s of or malicious mischief mis chief the Utah statute providing pro a a. punIshment pun pun- of or from two to years e ars to ten years yearn imprisonment for tor such cases when human life UtI Is loRt loat Tire The Utah revised T statutes define malice In murder Ca cases N as either expressed lcd or Implied It Is 15 expressed MW malice when manifested a A. deliberate Intention to take tako nay away the lIC life of oC a fellow crea erM- ture turc It i Is Implied when no rio considerably considerable provocation prO appears or when tho the cIrcumstances circumstances circumstances circum circum- stances stances' attending the killing sho show air a. ai abandoned d and malignant heart Engine Was Vas Inspected Tho The officials of ot the Copper Belt dc declare that the they havo hav o evidence that the th engine which left lert the track was Inspector thoroughly before It l left heft tt the bins of f th Utah Copper company compon last Thursday morning and that It was In perfect workIng working work work- Ing order The Thc They declare that t tl they ey ll have A proof that th the track was tam lam tampered with and that one of tho the men Who left the of or the road at th the tini time 1 or of f tl ll 11 hat laJtI I I wilt will get any man that thal tri tries i to run runa a Shay engine on that road If I I 1 have to grease the track for tor- hn naff f a mile A A m s of or- official ori e o 1 11 company and others is Is' b bIng belil at theoffice the office ot of Superintendent tnt J. J W. W thi afternoon at which It is expected sonic sonin action will he be taken look Jook- li to th thu sw swearing out of or a number of or complaints I To Meet Citizens Wednesday A m mass mans M m the citizens of or Bingham Bing- Bing ham W was held last week to protest the ihn further running of or on th the Copper Belt road marl Superintendent nt rn asked that any n definite action b bo b. referred deferred until the th had bad company an alt op opportunity op- op to make mak a a- full Jull atlon This Thi was d to b by the citizens oC ot and slid Mr r win will Ill jo go 0 to the mining town ton r Wednesday to ni 11 th the citizens citi soils zens And discuss th the tho matter It la Is believed d th that t that time R a number of or wr arrests will Ill b b be made It t. t wa 1 e ld this afternoon h na while tie the fe feeling of or the people of or Is lest stitt r Continued on page 10 0 WRECK WAS CAUSED Continued from pl page e 1 1 high Jt IL I Is not nearly so much muck directed against two tO days dayl the te company as t on the following SEVENTEEN MEN MN LEFT D. D B R. R G G. FEBRUARY 6 G Seventeen Sc men niemi seven of them engineers en en- four f firemen and ami si six switch switch- h meD muon n n who had bad been in the ser i service o of the Rio Grande at Bingham left lef that cn lee ice ce February G a last after General Su Su- had refused to tor r replace George c as The Time railroad officials that sa say who had heM hell tho the position only about a month had objected to the tue men lorin loafing and nd in some somo instances drinking whereupon where where- upon pon th tb tho men inca told toll Mr Ir that he 10 must 1 lid hO 3 rC removed o d or 01 they would walk Talk lout out They kept their promise and aDd the thc railroad say tny tho places were d within two t days None Sono of the themen themen I men who left tho the service of tho company com coin company pany pony returned a previous report had been to thol effect that about ono one ono half ball their ther number had Jon gone back |