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Show KILLED BY CARS-STRUCK BY A TRAIN-COLLISION. Last Saturday evening, near ??, on the C. P. R. R., a freight train coming eastward broke in two, and brakesman Ed. Solomon, endeavoring to couple the disconnected sections jumped from one car to another, when the section that had first broken loose parted once more, and the shock hurled the unfortunate man on the track, the wheels passing diagonally over his body, cutting the left thigh from the front inflicting a fearful wound, which proved fatal in a couple of hours, when the suffering man was relieved from his agonizing pains by the cold touch of death. The remains were taken to Ogden city, Sunday morning, and embalmed by Mr. Preshaw. The same evening on which the former fatality took place another though fortunately, less serious accident occurred on the Utah & Northern track at the crossing with the lane at Marriotte settlement. Two men-Albert Ammoden and W. Wallace, the latter of Plum City-were driving towards Mariotte, where the former party wished to visit a brother. Just as they were crossing the track the U. & N. passenger train No. 3, northbound, came along and struck the vehicle giving it such an impetus that the whole outfit, horses, wagon, and inmates were hurled 18 feet. It was a most marvelous escape, for of the two men, Ammoden received only a scalp wound, which was afterward sewed up by Dr. Mitchell of this city, and Wallace was bruised on the arms, not materially. One of the horses broke a leg and had to be shot, while the other animal escaped unhurt. Yesterday morning another railroad collision caused some temporary excitement at the U. P. depot. Engineer Jeffs was following up the regular passenger train from Salt Lake city on a special engine. When approaching the main crossing of the C. P. and U. P. tracks he observed the U. P. switch engine on the C. P. track and came to a dead stop until the latter had passed the crossing and signaled him to proceed eastward. No sooner had he reached the crossing when U. P. engine No. 61 came along from the south, backing up, and dashed with a heavy thud into the U. P. engine. Neither engineer is to blame as neither had seen the other approaching owing to the U. P. train causing an obstruction to their view. The foregoing items are gleaned from the Ogden Herald. |