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Show TWO DIE IN U. P. TRIPLE WRECK Fireman Suffocated and Engineer Succumbs Suc-cumbs to Scalds. Cheyenne, Wyo. Two men are dead following a triple wreck which blocked the main line of the Union Pacific near Granite canyon, seventeen miles west of Cheyenne Sunday morning. One is Fireman J. E. McCarthy of Denver. He was caught beneath an overturned locomotive and suffocated. Peter Jessen, of Cheyenne, engineer of a wrecking crane that overturned while working on the wreck, was so badly scalded that he died later. The wreck resulted from a broken rail which ditched six cars of east-bound east-bound extra freight No. 30. Ten of the cars toppled over upon the westbound west-bound track in front of westbound extra ex-tra freight No. 232, which crashed into them. The locomotive of No. 232 overturned over-turned and McCarthy was caught beneath be-neath it. Engineer D. D. Farr of this locomotive was hurled forty feet, but escaped virtually without injury. While a wrecking crane from Cheyenne Chey-enne was clearing the wreckage it overturned and slid down an embank- j nient. .lessen was the only member of the crew of the wrecker injured. |