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Show TWENTY CARS PILED UP IN U. P. FREIGHT WRECK Twenty cars of a westbound Union Pacific freight train derailed about 10:30 a. m. Wednesday at Neels, 23 miles south of Delta, causing a delay of about ten hours in movement of two crack passenger trains. No one was injured, but rain, snow and thick heavy mud raised havoc with U. P. wreck crews and equipment. equip-ment. One "Cat" en route to the wreck scene was mired in deep mud three miles north of Deseret when the truck-trailer truck-trailer transporting it struck a soft shoulder and sank in the mud. Other Cats were dispatched from Milford and Cedar City to assist in grading a roadbed for a temporary tem-porary "shoo fly" track around the derailed train. The derailment occurred when the 60th car of an 89-car 89-car train en route to Los Angeles An-geles jumped the tracks and was followed by the next 21 cars. They were loaded with general freight, but in the 59 cars ahead of the derailment were several cars of livestock. The engine and 59 cars proceeded pro-ceeded to Milford and Los Angeles. An-geles. Members of the train crew were Milo Richardson,, engineer, engi-neer, Ray Christensen, fireman; fire-man; W. H. Price, conductor, and D. B. Mitchell and .R. C. Hedrick, brakemen. |