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Show OPEN SWITCH; GARSSMASH Coach and Work Train Are Injured and Motorman Sustains Bruises Salt Lake City, March 25. Some member of the crow of n work train on tho Salt Lnko & Ogden rnilroad, It Is supposed, forgot to closo a switch esterday morning near Bountiful, Boun-tiful, with th0 result that n passenger passen-ger northbound collided with the work train ou a siding. Hesult uvo badly damaged cars, a bruised motor-man motor-man nnd a scoro of shaken and scared scar-ed pasaingpts. An Investigation will bo ho'd today In nn effort to plnco tho blame whero It belongs. The passenger car left Salt Lnko at 8 o clock yesterday morning In charge of I). It. Wright, conductor; 13. L HradcBon motorman. tlio work train was manned by W. Butler, conductor, E. 11. Pnno, motorman; B. Ilulior. brakeman; L. Payne, trol-leyman trol-leyman The crew of this train took a siding, nnd nil wero doctoring a hot box whon tho collision occurred Simon Bamberger, president of the road, said that although only Informal Inform-al reports hnd been received It was apparently a enso of some on forgetting forget-ting to close tho switch when the work train took tho siding. |