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Show LTJCIN QUAGMIRE IS HUNGRY. OLD OATS THE BEST. Lucin quagmire has swallowed a locomotive. lo-comotive. The process of deglutition is not quite complete, but it is gulping down the lunch as, fast as it can. The iron bonbon which the quagmire is forcing down is the engine which tipped over on its side several days ago when the "quag" suddenly had such a sinking spell. The quagmire has banqueted on everything from jvoouen piles to rocks aftd steel scantlings, but the locomotive is the daintiest morsel on which it has been fed. It is believed that by tossing it a few-more few-more locomotives and a train of ears or two that the appetite of the quagmire quag-mire can be satisfied. It is not because the engineers have faith in iron as a tonic that they are prescribing locomotives locomo-tives for the "quag." Efforts were made to recover the engine after the accident but the locomotive sank so rapidly that this could not be done. Everything that falls into the hungry maw seems to be lost and the fact that the "quag" does net appear able to keep its mouth j closed has given rise to the suspicion. I some have been rude enough to say, i that i is of the feminine gender. I The work on the Lucin cut-off in the J vicinity of the quagmire is proceeding with the utmost -secrecy. No one but the workmen are allowed in the vicinity i of the place where the filling is going Ion. The place has aroused the utmost curiosity and many people have expressed ex-pressed a wish to see the place, but. they have all been refused permission to visit the treacherous spot. A mountain of rock and dirt has already al-ready been dumped into the place, and it may require as much material igain before the place is eventually filled. The engineers believe that they are gaining, on the "quag," but. they expect that they will see a good many roadbeds disappear dis-appear at the spot before it finally remains re-mains firm. The short stretch where j the disasters have occurred has been oneof the costliest pieces of work on the cut-off, but the Southern Pacific will get the place filled if it has to employ em-ploy a dentist. I Ogden. April. 2. A gravel train on I the Lucin cut-off was let down into the lake by the spreading and giving way j of some piles about one mile and a half west of Promontory point. Four cars ' went into the lake. A Greek laborer named Demarest suffered severe inju- i ries and eight others. were slightly hurt. I The cars were recovered. . About 500 feet of trestle gave way. |