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Show LUCI. CUMFF . SMS il ' QVEWFtS A LO COfflOIWE; : HffiMAN MASHED TO DEATH Qua?mirc Seems Without a Bottom, and for the Second Time the Track Sinks; Drops Without Slightest Warning, After swallowing up tens of thousands of tons of rock and piles without number, num-ber, the great quagmire on the Ogden-Lucin Ogden-Lucin cut-off today claimed it first hu- ' man victim. . This "sink. whers after a year of constant effort the engineers have been unable to find a permanent foundation for their trestle work, brought death this' morning , to Fireman Robert W. Watson. , Six Idles Under Water. During the night the trestle on which the track was laid sank six inches. It had not. given trouble for several days and the hope was expressed by the engineers engi-neers in charge that the seemingly insatiable in-satiable maw of the mud had at last been filled.. - No one noticed the sinking of the track and engineer Jenkins and Fire- ' man Watson took their engine out on the fatal spot without a thought of danger. dan-ger. . Locomotive Overturned. The huge machine no sooner reaohed the track that had gone down below the required level than its weight added to ' the depression and the engine was overturned. over-turned. " . . Watson was caught beneath the huge mass and crushed to death. Engineer Jenkins was fortunate enough to escape with severe bruises. . Watson was an unmarried man whose home was in Idaho. His family is being be-ing communicated with and the disposition dispo-sition of the .remains will not.be made until they have been heard from. Puzzles the Engineers. . . 'This sink quagmire or quicksand, , whatever it may be, has been the tor- 1 ment and the bane of the engineers having In charge- the cut-oft ever since the first attempt to fill It. For three months tralnloads of earth and rocks were dumped In every day. At last It seemed to be filled, and a track was built across the bad place, which Is less than 600 feet long. Next morning' the foundation had disappeared and it required re-quired hard work to save the rails and ties. Seems to Be Bottomless. Every attempt made to drive a pile to the bottom has been equally futile. The great forty-foot plies are driven out of sight by a few blows of the hammer. Placing a second on the first and a third on the second meets with the same result, re-sult, they go down and down, there seems to be nothing solid below. v The condition is one that persistently baffles the most strenuous efforts of the skilled engineers and they are unable to explain the cause of the sinking in view of the fact that they have had no difficulty in filling every other place on the line. |