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Show FRED PENNY IS I KILLED IN I YARDS I Fred Penny, a Union Paclfio brake-. pS man, was caught betweon tho cars B of a train ho was uncoupling in tho IM local yards this morning at 3:30, and 1ft was so severely injured about tho W! loker part of his bodv that he dlod Pnl two hours after being removed to the PS( Dfc hospital. ISiaj Penny had just come in with an ir oxtra freight train In charge of Con- j ductor Ruppoll and Engineer Rupp. i SW Freight trains of any longth must be ' pile cut in two as soon as thoy reach the d yards in order that the main lino bo - ' cleared. This train was so long that Wg It was necessary to divide It to Wi allow one part to occupy one track ; && and tho other part the next track. It J? W i was Penny's duty to muko this cut ' Spr and, while doing this, it is thought BSto that tho slack from the first section KWi caught him while he was making tho W& cut. He was hurried to the Deehos- I'ft pltal and everything was dopo to ' VJ save his life, but so soverely was he frtlj Injured that death resulted two hours i SB'i later. , jFitj Penny was 35 years old and had . i'Po been living at Evanslon, Wvo. He l11 has a sister In Salt Lnko, Mrs. Jennie i Krat Price, who has been notified of tho : ft?rillU sad ovont Tho body Is being held pnt at the Larkin undertaking parlors. k W ea oo ' K' - |