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Show : " ' : : ' ; I '-" i ' 1 . J m ) . . " "" """""" ' -i I . 1 i I - i "" ' ' ' I ' M I : v . . 'L J. JjL. p . ... J. i -.-jX . . p M ' 7 i i: ' ' I! 14! ' M A j::5LcerCaystiieJ)anie;Gns CI:r.racter of Work iIay Cause Soiiiiiern Pacific to AMntiOn Present Plans. oo TWELVE FATALITIES IH THE WORE. J .o- - ; : '-j ( ,. ' j . ' ; The danger to life attending the construction of the Xucin cut-oft has been suppressed. "Where an accident with fatal results on the Ogden side has become public property by reason of the victim being known, it is different further to the west, where unknown Greeks are employed. At least twelve men have lost their lives and four of them only last week, and tip to the present time two bodies are still In the water. As to the number , of cars that have been lost I do not care to be, quoted. SOUTHERN PA- " CIFIC. ENGINEER'S, STATEMENT. ' J' - V j i . v A Southern 'Pacific engineer familiar with conditions on the Lucln cut-off - was in the city yesterday. He expressed his' opinions with more freedom than tie perhaps would at home and gave some facts that have not been exploited by the railroad company. ,- t . V - I . ' Y: ' - HE BELIEVES THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY MAYTET BE FORCED TO ENTER SALT LAKE CITY. AND CROSS THE GREAT SALT LAKE AT THE SOUTH END. He admits that the large amount of earth and. .rock dumped into.the lake east of the Promontory and nearer the Ogden shore has had a perceptible effect in driving the quicksands tothe'surface,.where they appear above the track, but in his opinion the problem lies on the Promontory side of the body of water sought to be spanned, I . . " ' j . " . It seems that at this point an overflow of lava in some remote age has spread Into the lake. Near the shore it is impenetrable and a pile, makes no lmpres-. lmpres-. 'sion. The 'mass becomes thinner, however, as it is followed from the i shore and " the massive timbers are driven through it with comparative ease.-- ; Then ' the ' trouble begins.1 As fast as 'one sixty-foot pile .is sunk 'below the .fface.anpther Is.spJJced to it until four have failed to reach bedrock. . In fact conditions at the bottom of the lake at this point are unfathomable- There was another, sink In the cut-off Saturday- night, A long section of the '' track dropped into the'water . ' -- -' . : j.rr.Jc.uV |