Show POEM ONLY ONU CLUE lUf TO m IDENTITY OF f VI f TRAIN TRAINMan Man Struck and Killed by D. D R. R G. G W. W Engine South of Provo I am co compelled across your our path to tread For I am a sick and crippled miner And cannot earn by toil toU my dally daily bread blead I hope I do not ask too much I only care to live I thank yOU ery kindly for tor anything any any- thing yoU give Please help me if you can can- Scrawled across a sheet of yellow yellow yel- yel low paper this little poem written apParently In a moment ot of despair may furnish the only clue to the identity ot of a man about 45 struck and killed by a northbound Denver and Rio Grande Western estern passenger train at a crossing in south Provo Thursday morning Four hobos the only witnesses ot of the tra tragedy edy tell conflicting stories regarding the facts of the mans man's death Two say lie he was wag hit when he tailed failed to hear the approach of the train because of his attention on another train which had just passed Others say he walked directly di- di In front of the engine When hen the train was brought to toa toa a stop by Engineer Charles Conners Conners Con Con- ners the mans man's body badly mangled mangled man man- was pulled from beneath the pilot ot of the engine eng On his person yere ere the strange poem and 40 cents Investigation revealed he had carried car car- ned ried two bottles ot of denatured alcohol al- al cohol and had recently purchased a suit of clothes In Salt Lake The body was taken to the Berg mortuary In Provo to await idea Iden- I |