Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-11-12 | Page 1 | Depot is Wrecked by Runaway Engine

DEPOT IS WRECKED BY RUNAWAY ENGINE -DETROIT,' Mich, Nov. 12. One were killed, another fatally injured and three of them -badly, , today when a Michigan, Central .railroad freight en- fine ran awav and crashed into the hird street' Jepot, tearing down a larre seatiaa of tJortrwtur.j-Jw. " 'The dead: -. .- " , GEORGE. OoTIf, TJe(roit. , . i jThe severely injured: . ' Ponald Thompson, assistant district superintendent of 3 the Pullman company. com-pany. ..,- Earl S. McEuen, cashier Pullman office., of-fice., .... Bert Haney. Detroit, a Michigan Central conductor. The engine was switching in the vards a mile from the station when, it is said, the crew, soeing . a passenger train, approaching from behind, thought a collision was about to occur and jumped from the engine. It was running run-ning at ' good speed, , and unchecked dashed, into the station, tearing out a section' twentv-five feet wide. The second- and third floors over this section . collapsed. . . Booth was killed in a, parcel room near which the engine struck. Haney was on the third floor and fell with the was hurt.