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Show a "i : tjS LEAPS TO DEATH b r UNDER LOCOMOTIVE m ' Park ICty, Sept. S.Hnrling himself in front of tho Park City Denver & 1 Rio Grande train, four miles north of Park City, Carl Carlson, a miner, sustained sus-tained injuries at 3:12 o'clock this afternoon aft-ernoon from which-hc died four hours later. Investigations held thus far fall to reveal the motive for the suicide. sui-cide. Traveling at the rate of Co miles an hour, Engineer J. G. Bywater first discovered the man walking beside the Crack about two rail lengths ahead of the approaching train. He sounded a warning by tooting the engine whistle. whis-tle. Instead of stepping to 'one side, Carlson turned and sprang directly in the path of the train. He was terribly mangled, sustaining a fractured skull and a crushed chest, while his cheek bones were torn out. He was placed on board the train and taken to Park City and removed to the Miners' hospital, where he died at 7:10 o'clock tonight Carlson had his shoes, coat and hat off when he made the fatal leap. He was about 35 years old and had been working In the mines of Big Cottonwood canyon. Prior to that he had been employed by Ne!s Peterson of the Iowa Copper' company'. nn |