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Show Former Local Boy i ! Killed By Engine, i - 1 Rodney Edwards, about 19, now of Cedar City but a former resident , of Milford, is reported to have been among the eight Union Pacific Paci-fic maintenance of way men who . were instantly killed Tuesday when a freight engine backed into aj motor car. The accident occurred outside Brant, a small place on the main line about 75 miles west of : Las Vegas, according to report. The crew had been called out at j 3 a.m. to clear snow from the tracks at Sima, top of the Cajon , pass hill. W. H. Galli is said to ' have been the engineer of the loco-motive, loco-motive, which had been backing up from Nipton, the accident oc-; curring about a thousand feet j from the Brant station. I Young Edwards was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Nichols. |