Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-02-03 | Page 8 | An Engineer Killed a Passenger Train Collides with Freight

AN N ENGINEER KILLED t. t A PASSE PASSENGER GER TRAIN i COLLIDES WITH FREIGHT Two miles west of Buena Vista this morning the Colorado d Midland passenger train bound for Salt Sait Lake had a a. narrow l escape from being hurled over a trestle sixt sixty five five feet high The train dashed in into in- in iI to a standing freight throwing the Caboose caboose caboose ca ca- r boose and one me car over the trestle into I the creek bottom below and Instantly I killing the brakeman Owen McCarthy t who should have flagged the approaching t d passenger train but neglected to leave I the caboose until the trains were only feet apart The engineer and brakeman on the passenger were strange to say unha unharmed med T Th engine was thrown from the track J b remain remained on the trestle Had it been wn another foot the whole train have crashed down into the creek l nd the loss of life lire would have been ter- ter Ible ibie