Show FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT A two year old child cut to pieces by the D R G W on wednesday the ath of the present month a shocking and fatal accident occurred at west jordan ten miles south of this city by which a two year old girl was cut i in n two and almost ina in A 1 scantly killed by a D R G W rail kail vay v train carl andreason And and his family aay in ly have a small home at west jordan about 50 rods west vest of the D R G W station at bingham junction on the afternoon of the day named mrs andriksons Andria sons little daughter hilda maria was out in the yard with her mother and started for the house as was supposed instead of going inside she went out oat on the street and towards the schoolhouse on the opposite side the street is a narrow one and in the centre is the D E R G W track to bingham the grade toward the river being quite heavy i the unfortunate child had bad not been away from her mother more than two or three minutes when a train of three loaded ore cars and a locomotive came down at miles per hour As it approached the schoolhouse two boys on the front car saw the child on the track a short distance ahead and apparently too frightened to get from between the rails they signaled the engineer who applied the arla brakes ikes but almost at the same instant the first car caught the little one and threw her on the rails the entire train passed over her body at the hips mangling it horribly the accident was observed by a number of school children school being in session at the time and they came trooping out oat and beheld a terrible scene mrs lAnd capie came to i look for her babe as soon as she discovered that it was not inthe in the house and go tonto the street just as the train passed over it she rushed frantically forward and grasped the child carrying the bleeding form into the house then she discovered that she had picked nicked up only the trunk of the body one leg and the entrails were left on the track from which other pati parties e gathered th ered them into to a pan and colace conveyed y T e th them em to t the h e house the f father ther had bad left S seme me time before for his work at a swelter smelter A messenger was dispatched after him to con vey the sad tiding sand it was a couple of hours before he got back to his bis home in the meantime an inquest had been held and the testimony of a number of eyewitnesses taken the coroners verdict is as follows TERRITORY OP OF UTAH salt lake county i west jordan precinct an inquisition holden at west jordan in west jordan precinct salt lake county on the ath day of february 1888 before isaac harrson H justice of said precinct preci act upon the body of hilda andreason And there lying dead by the jurors whose names are hereto a subscribed the said jurors upon their oaths do say that the said hilda andreason And was killed by cars owned by the denver rio eio grande western railway and that it was purely accidental no blame be jag attached to tte the railway employed emp loyes in n testimony whereof the said jurors have hereto set their hands the day find and year af aforesaid oi ebaid ALLAN HALL JOSEPH MILLS W M BATEMAN jurors the funeral took plage place on friday february alth the family are plunged into grief over the terrible af affair fairand and mrs andreason And is especially seriously affected every time a train passes the strain on her seems so great as to be beyond her powers of endurance and the bad effects do not appear to get less as time elapses the bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire settlement where they live |