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Show KEADOS COLLISION OF EREIGHT TRAK1S 0:i D.&HLR0AD Fireman Loies Foot-i-Ten of the Cars Are 7. .. . ictaucu. I Runnlaa ta a heavy fog at about twenty-five Bailee an hour, westbound freight train No. at oa the Denver V Rio O rands ootllded headoa with east bound freight train No. II a half mil weal of Americas Brk thia morning at :. P. A. Ostler. Bremen on engine MM. pulling- tba east-bound east-bound trata. was serkmslr Injured. In attempting te get oS the engine his left foot waa caught betweea th boiler bead aad tender and crushed. Amputation was aeceeeant Ostler received medical attention at the cane of th wreck and later was brought to Salt Lake and taken ta BL Mark's hospital, where be I resting with svsrp; thing Is bis favor for recovery. His boms Is st Bprlngvtlle. where he hss a f amity of his wife with a two-weeks-old Infant. ; The damage to the engines was slight, considering tha nature of th oolllaion. Treln No. tt practicelly wee standing still at tha time of tbe eolltelon. whlih probably accounts for the smell damage. Both engines received damage that will take them to the ahop for repair. Ten cars were derailed, five emptlea en train 1 snd five cars loaded with coal on train St. According to advices issued from the general superintendent's office thle mom-, ing, the wreck was caueed by the crew of train 3 falling te properly eurrruind lie movementa from Ihi to Amerfeaa Pork with proper flea: protection. Weet-bound Weet-bound train had been delayed on account of pulling a draw bar. It was given the right of wsy snd the anatbeund tmla had orders to proceed to American Fork under flag protection. On account of a denes fog the engine crew of neither train waa able to see far sheed. I Train as was In charge of J. R. Reese, conductor, and E- Rhlnehart. engineer, and train was In chares of & T. My lor, conductor, aad J. H. Ilevla, engineer, all of Belt Ike. Th other mem sere of th engine crews except Oetler were able to clear themselves of tha engines ta time to eecape Injury. Wrecking trains were dispatched to th seen of the wreck end at 1 o'clock the main track was cleared for traffic The srens of the wreck Is on a tangent and with a clear atmosphere glvee the engineer full view of the track ahead. Ilia asserted by officers of th road that th wreck could not have occurred If the weather had not been foggy. According to the atatement ot Conductor My lor of the eaatbound train, hia train waa etand-tng etand-tng atlll. Inasmuch aa It waa under nag order It could not have been running at any great rate of speed, prom the statement state-ment Issued by the general euperlnten-dent euperlnten-dent It eeeme that the crew of train. It was not proceeding under flag, aa trala U waa aot nagged dowa. |