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Show LLSillLSON OPFflRMIUGTOIl DIES INSTANTLY Only Witnewct of Tragedy Trag-edy on Bamberger EUec-tric EUec-tric Were Two Little Girls Among Passengers DEATH THOUGHT! DUE TO SHOCK OF FALL JlalluthoritieaBela : Woman Expected Train . to Stop When Passing Fannington Flag Station i 1 ' Mr. Sara Hellion of rurmlnrton, tTtah(M irflMm of as, wm Instantly Instant-ly hilled last ntht at o'clock wbsa. It is slaimsd, h leaped from ' southbound B&mberser Else trie ti"aln at Farmlngtott crossing. T. M. Abbott, safety scent for ths Bsmberger lines aald thai Mra. j dVsllson had ions to Ocden earlier i In ths day to visit her daughter and ' vii retuminff on train No. It, which j left Ocden at :S0 o'clook. When ths train did not stop at Frmlniton'crosslnir. It Is said that , ths woman ran to the exit on the i west slda and jumped off. Two : Utile (Iris who witnessed ths accl- I dnt said, according to Abbott, that ths woman fell forward, striking her head on the around. Pine was Immediately attended by Dr. C. H. Oardner of Farming-ton. who said that ths woman died Instantly from roncuesion of ths brain. Whn found aha waa lying: about sis feot from the track. , Mr. Abbott said that ths lnvfetl- gat I on reVsaled that ths woman jrst:maby did not have a ticket Fannington, and tha station Is only a flag stop where trains do nat stop without notice. According Accord-ing to Mr. Abbott, th train -was tiavellng between eight and twetvs miles per hour when passing over ths rroMlng at Fannington when hr accident oneurred. . .. .. The train crew, eonalitlng of Carl TstTifHedy. metort..an; Teonard llan- r, conduetnr, and Dewey Ander texm, brskemsn, did not know of ths crldent until they arrived In Salt . Lak and were- informed of tt. |