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Show j GETTING THE NEWS BALLED AND BEING BALLED OUT It is not always the easiest matter to find all the news, learn the various' details and then write it up in a plain, comprehensive Mnanner. There are incidents which happen now and then when it is difficult, to arrive at the , facts in the case when eye witnesses and others in a position to know are willing to talk, but when an accident occurs where only a few people know the details and the particulars incident inci-dent to the affair, and they become as silent as a clam on the matter, writing up the news about it is like taking a leap in the dark. Something has to be said about it and the newspaper, if unable to get the facts, has to give its readers some general idea about, what has happened. But aside from this, when the newspaper news-paper man gets the facts balled up the man who has the facts is ready to ball : him out Our attention is called to this over a story of a railroad accident which appeared in this paper last week. We were unable to get the details, de-tails, the topography or lay of the land where it occurred, the technical terms or the characteristics of the engines. Therefore, we could not use all those little niceties so handy In dressing up a story so as to be presentable to those versed in the sciences and at the same time be plain and explicit to the ordinary citizens. After our story appeared we had a communication we know not from whom who. could have given us the farts well and good at the time, but would he have done so? We hardlv think so. We have phoned time and ngaln for Information about such matters mat-ters to the proper person and when we would ask in the most courteous manner for information 6ome marble-1 marble-1 hearted monster would coldly, if not ; indignantly, say that he did not know nr could not give out anything for publicity. pub-licity. If we persisted further he ! might suggest that we call 23013xxJ7 and then wlien we ask that he repeat :the number he hangs up the receiver. But th? story from our critic Is a good one. Aside from explaining how the accident occurred hp gives intprestinf Information about the operation of trains, the grades, etc., but he did nol sign his name, fearing, perhaps, that we might call on him later for data. His communication, reproducing our ragged story, and following it with his authentic and trenchant version, is as follows: Somebody Must Have Slipped. January 19th. 1918. F. H. Barlow, engineer of a compressed com-pressed air dinkey operating on the Utah-Aoex grade of the Bingham & Garfield Railroad, suffered a fractured skull last Saturday evening as a result of a head-on collision and is now undergoing un-dergoing treatment as St (Mark's hospital hos-pital In Salt Laks. Some parts of this line the grad- l to steep that compressed air has to be j used to drive the engine to the summit. sum-mit. Barlow had applied all the air his engine contained and was skyrocketing sky-rocketing up the hill when another dinkey came down the grade. There was a collision with a terrific crash in which the engineer was knocked I unconscirus. While his Injury Is of a serious nature, na-ture, It is thought he will recover un- lem complications set in. i Harry F. Barlow, fireman on dinkey locomotive No. 22, in the employ of the Utah Copper Company, suffered a (fractured skull, Saturday, 2:15 p. m., , as a result of a head-on collision on the A-C Line in Main Canyon, opposite oppo-site the Auxiliary Yard, and is now undergoing treatment at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake. Engine 22 had left the Auxiliary Yard with one flat car loaded with j pipe and was going up the C-A line, , which Is a four per cent grade, when . it collided with engine No. 77 coming down the grade with a train of loads, i Engine 22 was traveling at a slow rate of speed at the time of the accident, , on account of the mist, and the crew I were not able to see the other locomotive loco-motive coming down the hill, i illls injury is of a serious nature and It Is very doubtful if he will recover. Note: Compressed air is used for breaking purposes only on these locomotives. loco-motives. A lour n-r Ttit grade Is not consul ercd very steep. All of the transportation transpor-tation tracks arc -four per cent. 1 The accident happened 1 1-2 miles from where you say It happened, j (Send a copy of this to the Salt Lake jp-u.ers, as tney slipped as far as you did. |
