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Show THREE DEAD IN WRECK ON U. P. Arthur E. Woods, Ogden and Evanston Men Slain as Engine Explodes. Ogden. Thomas Carroll, engineer ; Charles It. Hohbs, brakeman, both of Evanston, Wyo., and Arthur E. Woods, fireman of Ogden, were instantly killed kill-ed at 4 :15 o'clock Monday morning at Curvo, sixty miles east of Ogden, when the boiler of locomo'tive No. 5008 exploded. ex-ploded. Details of the accident are lacking. The superintendent of the Union Pacific system at Green River has started an investigation of the explosion. ex-plosion. According to information received here, the locomotive was one of the powerful mogul type of the Union Pacific Pa-cific railroad, and was attached to a fast fruit train, eastbound, that left Ogden about two hours before the accident. acci-dent. Only the wheels were left on the track, the boiler and upper portions por-tions of the engine being scattered on each side of the right of way for many feet, it is stated. As all the men on the engine when the boiler exploded were killed, the exact cause of the accident may never be known. |