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Show SALT. -Mm NARROWLY ESffiK tSATM If! WRECK ' FROr-J' SEWSNG R1LS ' ' - ' ' v . - Tbe rails spread while the Loe. Angeles An-geles Limited train was passing over the double track section of the Short Line, ten. miles below Milford, Utah, yesterday, and a large number of Salt Lake people are attributing their probable prob-able escape from injury possibly death to the fact that one eouplieg alone held tbe cars upon the road bed until the train 's momentum ceased. -The engineer was making a uvely thirty-mile-aa-hour clip when suddenly the wheels found the ties, and for '300 feet the ears bumped' over the same. As the train came to a standstill the coaches had tipped over to on side, so steeply that it was Impossible to tread the aisles and 'keep one's feet upon the floor. Passengers who looked through the windows on the side of the leaa-to saw terra firm a was twenty feet below. They walked to the rear of the train and realized that the train, was being held in its position by tbe rear (observation) (ob-servation) car, which remained on the track, and the slender coupling by which- it was fastened to tbe forward part of the train had not been broken. It was estimated that bad either this connection been sundered by a few additional ad-ditional wrenches, or if the train had proceeded fifty more feet before stopping, stop-ping, all the day coaches and the sleepers sleep-ers would have' rolled down the embankment. em-bankment. Eseape from injurv is regarded re-garded as. a railroad .miracle. Only one man received a bruise on tbe knee. Tbe passengers were cared for by the company and made - as comfortable as possible until a wrecking train arrived, and after sixteen, hours' delay were brought to Salt Lake. . . |