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Show nFNVER AND RIO GRANDE u CAR IS DERAILED p &. R. G. train No. 2 U'f t the track frosting a switch Friday and shook the assentrers up considerably. Jesse Con-over Con-over of Ferron was seriously injured, beirp thrown through the window of the day coach. A score of passengers, including R. D Staley of Salt Lake, traveling passenger pas-senger agent of the Rock Island railroad, rail-road, were caught in the overturned ,ur and severely shaken up, though none of them were seriously injured. The train was running fifteen miles an hour when it struck the switch, which was properly thrown but not locked. The locomotive and the baggage bag-gage car took the main line, but the day coach, four pullmans and a diner crashed into the sidetrack, leaving the rails and plowing along the roadbed for 250 feet. The force of the cars behind it pulled the baggage cai from the track, leaving only the engine on the rails. Whoever threw the switch on the train preceding the wrecked train into the yards is thought to be responsible for the wreck. An official investigation was begun Saturday. |