Show RAN INTO OPEN SWITCH fireman killed and engineer and several passengers injured park city Utah Fireman george edgar was lulled engineer joseph 0 bywaters thigh broken and several logan ball players were badly bruised in train wreck wednesday afternoon the rio granda passenger gei train on its way to salt lake ran through an open switch in the yards the engine overturned thanks to the engineer s presence of mind the rest ot the train was saved the accident occurred 1000 feet north of the local station the train was just speeding up bywater saw the open switch and applied the air at the same time reversing his engine he called to edgar to leap and jumped as be did so edgar caught in his run to the safe side was pinned against the firebox door from a broken gauge clouds of eleam en him and slowly scalded him to death |