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Show RESULT DP BLUNDER ! PASSENGER TRAIN CRASHES IN-j TO MOTOR CAR A8 RESULT OF HASTE OF CONDUCTOR. Three Passengers Dangerously Injured, In-jured, While Many Others Have Terrifying Experience In a Veritable Death Trap. Ogden, Utah. In a head-on collision collis-ion between a motor car used on the Malad branch of tho Oregon Short Lino and a passenger train, in the railroad yards in this city, tho motor car waB wrecked and tho thirty or more passengers had a severe shaking shak-ing up, at least' three being dangerously danger-ously Injured. The passenger train from tho north was n few minutes late, and Impatient to get a start for the north, tho motor car In charge of Motorman Case and Conductor H. W. Logan Is said o have disregarded orders to moot tho southbound south-bound train In the local yards, and attempted at-tempted to make tho "town track" by way of tho Twenty-second street crossing, tho result being a head-on collision. None of the passengers on the southbound south-bound train were injured in tho least. Had either train been traveling at a high rate of speed, the loss of life in tho motor car would undoubtedly have been appalling. Passengers who were on tho car and escaped without In-Jury In-Jury say that tho motor cars would provo veritable death traps In a case of a serious wreck, as there Is no way to get out except through a narrow doorway, the round windows being too small to admit a human body. |