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Show TRAIN WRECK AT SALT LAKE. 1 Rio Grundo russtojer Strikes An Open Switch linglneer Killed. Rio Grande Western passenger train No. 1 was wrecked in the railroad yards Monday afternoon by striking an open switch. Engineer William Konold was killed and every oar left the track except the Tullman. The cars were badly wrecked. No passengers passen-gers were hurt. A freight crew switching in the yards left the switch open at the cement works at Ninth South, expecting ex-pecting to get back before a train could arrive. They were surprised by the appearance of the passenger, which was two hours late, and whistled the signal to reverse, which was heard and answered by the passenger engine, but the speed was too great to stop. When the switch wasstruck the engine and five coaches left the track and started for the cement works where a number of men were working, crashing into the building and doiug damages estimated at 51,000, and slightly injuring in-juring a workman named John Raw-kins. Raw-kins. It is a miracle that a number of factory hands were not killed. When the train left the rails Kngineer Konold seeing what he supposed certain death ahead, climed down from his cab to the deck of his engine and made a leap for his life. He struck against a pile of cement rocks, was thrown back under the wheels of the mail car and was literally ground to pieces. The unfortunate man was dragged for some distance, and when the horribly mutilated muti-lated body was found, it was under the rear trucks of the mail car just opposite oppo-site the point where the train had torn the corner out of the cement factory. The body was cut in two at the abdomen, ab-domen, the limbs were scattered for some distance and the body was so torn and mangled that it was necessary to gather up the remains in a saek. . His fireman remained on the engine and was not hurt. |
