| Show RAILROAD SMASHUP SMASH MASH UP A locomotive and four cars go 90 down an embankment MARK URPHY MURPHY X KILLED on saturday night alghi a severe accident occurred at the ane almy switch one and a hall miles west of evanston on jhb union pacific fic bartway Bai Tway the westbound passenger train due at on saturday afternoon was several hours late having been detained by snow east of by evanston ston wyoming there were on boarna board a party ott oti 76 75 ex er route to california and a number of other passengers a among 0 n g whom was hon E F S richards ri who hn was returning from washington the train consisted consist edof of a mail and two baggage cars smoking car two passenger coaches and a sleeper there were two locomotives the one in trout aront acting as helper up the steep grade I 1 at the almy switch the tracks form a Y and as each is on a high embankment ban kment the centre of the triangle is I 1 a deep adeep hollow about 7 k the express train pulled out of evanston and was running at a moderate rate when the switch was reached the f front rout locomotive passed on all right but the second struck a broken i rail and i it PLUNGED DOWN THE embankment rolling over and abid over before it reached the tf ti ottom one of the passengers pas seagers was standing on the platform of the sleeper at the time and a shock I 1 thou thought lit the train had run into a snow anew bane bank as several had bad bien ben met on the road bata bat a second and heavier shock followed and he realized that something more serious had occurred he caught the handrail and peered out into the darkness being scarcely able to retain his bis grasp because of the repeated jerks caused by the cars cara striking sinking upon each other he saw the engine had left the track and the front car was just going goin over it turned oyer over and fell WITH A CRASH the second and third cars going down in about the same manner the smoking car which came next and amid contained coptain contained ed quite a number of 04 passengers was torn gj off the trucks and af after ter being dragged drug e a al ong on the track went over the bank the wheels were torn from under the i first passenger coach which dropped r down to the track and was saved saed by the breaking of a 46 coupling the excitement cit ement was terrible for a short time those iu in the rear coaches had not experienced such a shaking up as the oter and hurried harried forward in the dark to give assistance the first man reached in the wreck was the express maoson messenger er who had man aged to crowd cro the door loor open the car lay on its side de and get pa part rt 6 his body out gut lip he shouted that tha he CAR WAS ON FIRE and called for water mater this WAS quickly supplied and the naf fia fies joes rapidly extinguished thereby preventing the horrible holocaust which must have followed if U the names flames had bad gained cant control cantral rol work oo on the wreck was then commenced immediately the express man had his foot injured y and was cared for one of the passengers geral was picked up and given attention to his back having been injured but not seriously the was extricated without much difficulty difficulty and it was found that his been hurt the train men and quite a number of passengers were working heroically TO rescue those curled in the wreck far down own under the mass lay the lire i maut man joseph seph bowman who shouted to those above to hasten their je efforts gorta he said he was not hurt much but bu t was FREEZING B TO DEATH he was wedged in so that he could not move and the cold water was ael pouring over him f from rom the tank As he lay there bleedings his sufferings from his in injuries luries and the cold were simply adf awful al finally be was was reached and tile the weight above him being raised he was drawn out from the terrible position he was found to be severely injured his body having been badly bruised and a deep gash fash inflicted an on the side of his head ead he was full of pluck how however dver and stood on his bis feet making the hest best of his situation and urging the ir men ien to work t alter about four hours delay during I 1 which the passengers suffered considerable sid merable erable inconvenience as the ni night hi was BITTERLY COLD the road was opened and the passengers continued toward their destination arriving in ogden on sunday mid arid in this city lacot evening the railroad menvil men with th all the assistance si that could be ob continued their labors labora at the scene of the accident the enOl neer t ey knew must ae somewhere beneath the mass but whether he was alive or not could not be determined that he had been crushed to death seemed most probable as not a sound could be heard to indicate his whereabouts finally at a 2 sunday morning they discovered that the I 1 ENGINEER WAS his body having caught beneath his en anrine ine he was carefully lifted out and the body examined there was a av dee deep P cut cat across the chin and the head was swollen there were a number of minor bruises but no bones were brokew broken and it was evident that the poor fellow had died from suffocation his body was taken to ogden the unfortunate mans n name e is mark murphy he is the son am of f D dr r jesseej Jesse sJ 4 and jerusha murphy the former of sult salt lake city and was one of the most trusty men employed by the U union nion pacific ile he had been engaged on the road jor for about 18 years he was born march 29 1847 and was a married man his family being residents dentson of ogden he leaves a wife and six children the eldest 12 years of age and the youngest an infant of four months |
