Show AN AWFUL TRAGEDY the killing and mangling of a little girl by a switch engine of the oregon short line railway rail way in this city this morning was a horrible thing the most so of any event that has happened here for a long time the worst of it is that it was apparently not altogether accidental ci such engines are presumably always under control and ana the watch i man employed by the company its clearly incompetent by reason of at de e with its attendant weakened faculties even with the ty fixed the tragedy is so awful a thing that its contemplation belittles all consideration of any kind except that the horrors attending some additional dit ional safeguards against such destroyers st must be provided especially f a densely populated districts but in the absence of competent careful and humane employed emp loyes any precautions 1 ien would be more or less unavailing the afflicted relatives of the little vict vic tim and the immediate friends must he be possessed noss essed of an anguish of soul saul thim that nothing mortal can heal |