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Show CARBON COUNTY MAN KILLED ON CROSSING. Price, Utah, Aug. 4. About 2 o'clock this morning E. T. Jones and his horse were killed at tho railroad crossing just above Spring Glen. Mi Jonrcs left liomo early yesterday morning to go to Kenllworth on business busi-ness and did not start back until aft-or aft-or midnight He was driving a one-horse one-horse rig at the time. The horse war. carried on the pilot a distance of aix miles to Price before anyone know" that an accident had occurred. The engineer stated that he thought he had struck something at Spring Glen. J. U. Bryner, citv marshal, and D. J. Thomas went to the scene of tho accident and found the demolished buggy and the body of Mr. Jones No one will ever know how It occurred. The body was, not disfigured, but had been thrown up against the fence near the track with enough force to cause death Immediately. Jones had been a resident of Carbon Car-bon county for twenty years, was a well respected citizen and had reared a family of nine children He wan about 60 years old. He owned a small farm Just above Helper and had been employed In putting up ice for the railroad company for many years. Just provlous to this accident John Westly Dodd, a young man 15 years old, attempted to catch a freight train going out of Price and was ordered oft the engine by tho brakeman. Ho ran around the engine and into a special spe-cial freight that was just passing on a sidetrack and had his right leg cut off just below the knee. His left food) was also bruised and it was necossarv to amputate the right log and tho big toe on his left foot. The young man statoB that his father, Richard Dodd, 1b at the soldiers' homo In Leavenworth, Kan., and that he has a sister living in Boulder, Colo,, nnrned Ida Montgomery. He is being cared for in the county poorhouse. |
