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Show COAL CARS SMASHED; THREE PEOPLE HURT A wreck, in which three people were slightly hurt and five cars and a caboose ca-boose were smashed to kiddling woid in Miller Creek occurred at i e'clock Tuesday morning on the Southern Utah & Castle Valley railroad. The train. Conductor Hayes in charge, left Price with a string f tmpty coal cars bound for lliawatha. At Franklin a stop was made to set out sonde cars and the caboose and five cars were left standing on the main line when the train was cut in two. There is a 5 per cent grade at that point and the brakes failed t hold the rear part of the train and it ran back for more than a mile, finally going into the ditch at Miller creek. Arthur Heavener, one of the piseen-gers piseen-gers in the caboone, and Mrs. George Miller jumped off the train after it had attained a velocity of twenty miles an hour, escaping with a few scratches. Conductor Hays elected to stay with his ! train and try to brinj it und r control, I but was unable to check it and was j buried under the wreck in Miller creek, ' where he was found by searchers pearly two hours later. Miraculous to relate, ; Hayes escaped with a broken nose and j a cut over the eye, and, unless inter-j inter-j nally injured, will soon be about. |