Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-08-29 | Page 3 | No Indication of Neglect on Saltair Road

riQ INDICATION OFIIEGLECTOII . SALTAIR ROAD Manager Richard Ex-plain Ex-plain , Derailment " of . Tuetday- Night Wnen Shakeup Occurrea" ' Apparently there was-no nagU-i genca on tha part of tha maintenance mainte-nance or operating departments that caused derailment of a car on th Saltalr Beach lma Taesday . night, in wnclh several person, were Jarred. Joel Richards, general manager ef tha Saltair Oarfleld Kallroad company, amid today following fol-lowing an investigation of the ao-. ao-. , CidenL J Mr. Rleharda explained that tha M motor .waa pulling tha trsln alowly ' when it approached tha aw Itch thaL leads to- tha equipment spur, on which ara stationed motors, for tha return trip to the resort, "evidently,", "evi-dently,", he aald, "tha awltoh point waa not tight t the rail, nor waa )t tar removed, because tha wheels climbed th point and etarted down . the main track, while the -trailer V kept en the main Una." ' . According to Mr. Richards, the , awlteb waa bskd-4a " of the accident; but he explained that the switch Is In such constant nse that there ia no order which requires that It be locked. He atated that switchman la stationed anly a few hundred yards from th switch, who to supposed to turn the swKch. Asked If th track waa In good condition, h replied that th point which waa climbed was put Into I tha track two months ago. "The rail upon which the point fits was wall worn, probably due to sue constant con-stant pre Mil re of haavy traina on the curve." ha aald. "It might nave ceased the point to fit unevenly s .Jbee the derailment, ixi am unable to say. I am Having tha rail removed and a new one placed in the track today, to protect pro-tect against further trouble." Mr. Richards explained that the trackage la maintained Jointly vr the Oregon Short Line and the Balt-alr Balt-alr Oarfleld company, with the maintenance of th track nnder the jurisdiction of tha, Oregon Short Line force. "Would you aay that ther was negligence on ths part of ths maintenance main-tenance of tha awltch," h was "No." ba replied. "A split awltch la Uksty to cause a derailment on any railroad. In tact, moat of the railroad accidents are caused by apllt switches" I Mr. Rleharda axptatned that the damag don -th '" wwatd' amount to , while the damage to the equipment would amount to 1100 Ha aald tho track waa cleared today aad traffla would continue without with-out Interruption. Mr. Rleharda aald that efforts to locate any persona who were reported re-ported Injured had been unavailing unavail-ing today. Ha aald that reporta atate that Wave Peterson, aged 11. and Mra Maud Peterson of sPark City ware slightly bruiaed. and he would attempt to ascertain tha extent ex-tent of their Injurlea.