Show anu ocar M so cue sustains an injury J BUD boea HUILE THE IS labor day excursion 8 M fernanda hie cools of hie justices office A haher tam lie t 3 0 THE 1 R ano and Anulli cr tomally chilled Khill ed A w ret k occurred on the D S it 0 yesterday afternoon at noir no ir the bridge crossing weber river one engine ditched at that place and an oilier ran away down the track and then in the yards ran into the switch engine and smashed it as well aa several cars the first collision occurred between a train coining from lake park with twenty five with conductor berry and a work train which was distributing steel rails adoniz the track iba passenger train was due here at 5 p m but was late in getting in when nearing the bridge engineer barrett noticed the train ahead of him but bad been no flar on the track warning him that there was an obstruction st on the track he reversed the engine as quickly as possible and then be sa well as su ih the fireman jumped from the train a few sf ore the collision it was a narrow escape for as the train struck the deteel rails in the rear car of the work train the engine raised up on the hind w heels and then fell don u the after having run about ft rod from where the collision took place the tender piled up on the ear of lie locomotive and stopped on the track leaning toward the cm on the other f lle of that where the engine had fallen the front of the first car burgled in the abble end being throw n several feet into the car tearing up a number of which were thrown forward into the car it repaired rem aired on the track however and the ether care were not injured in uie least consternation reigned among ilia rat sen geif falio bawled out of the earn at the earliest possible moment fc to bay no one was hurt in the least none made any complaint but all their having come out alive and uninjured engine no H on hie work rain with linker bad been load ing rail in the yard and had hiitt pulled out on the track to distribute them As they were jeanng the place the engineer faw the passenger coming it was right on to them and there was little if any time to do to avert the danger eliat threatened the engine aaa reversed however but when the bebock tamp lie end the fireman were knocked off the engine though without receiving any in jury the engine on being reversed and on receiving the shak tore loose from alie train and at once eliut iloan the track toward the ard which had just been left this resulted in another smash up further down the track nearly a mile away the U A it G brillh elgine no aaa on the track near I 1 he inn borle where it hid just been dt to take donn borne cars to be need in making up a train which was to go out at 6 p m the engineer w as Jesee BroHn the arst notice he and his fireman had of the danger that threatened them was the dinger whistle of the 0 1 aliey looked around aid ai d there naw the engine connior tearing along the track the very track they ere blinding on they at cret thought that some reck lesa man was on the locomotive locc motive but when chec I 1 crossing was reached and oo 00 top wes made they full well knew that it a runaway and they made quick time to get cut of the way the engineer ran to one side and the fireman to the other and watched lie oncoming monster anere was oo 00 earthly way of getting the train out of reach of the elgine as they were on a track ended only a block aay and they had quite a number rf cars ahead of glieco all that could be done was to remain they were and watch the it came in a few moment and as the work engine w aich was coming with the rear towards atie switch engine crashed into tho batters lat rear two care flew he rack one of them fell down the embankment on its eide while the other waa down the bank half its leneth the tender completely Ema glied the cab and crowded ilono vp to the boiler it was raised up on the buot and there was not fora man the tender and the boiler the root waa thrown up on the top of the boiler and d there until the work crew took it down the cars were broken up and the wheels torn from m der them some of the wheels of the elgine remained anthe jails while the others nere BO twisted nd bent that they were several inches from the rails the boik engine though badly clayed on the rails and was taken out to the repair ebors when tee collision occurred a piece of iron truck the water tank ut the nitch angino utting a bi hole and the water down the in a while iby escaping steam created A noise that lent fearfulness to the acene A work crew ot about fifty men was eoon organized and they went out on the road to alear the track of alie ob et ruction BO as to let the regular aaa the tender was thrown over into the ditch and dragged from the tails to allow the train to go by and it in at 1110 it could biava passed sooner bad it not beet otherwise delayed it ie not known who is to blame fur he accident A man 0 connor had charge of the work crew aad ordered them to go out with the load v hichi had been taken on at abe yard it is understood that lie acted bogli as foreman ol 01 abe work and as conductor of the train while ou the road aad if to the company really appears an the party on whom blame IA laid as they debould not have a man artand beuch important positions at the tame time when work Is carried on over a line which is used by regular and excursion trains several limes during alio llio day the states that he understood that there was a flax man oot to signal lie train or he never have ran out with bis train as he knew tint an excursion train was doe that the was adne about an hour and a hall later there were rumors to the fleet that after the accident sir oconnor disappeared but railroad men did cot credit abe rumor and were outspoken in belief that he would appear and abat he waa to be found at i any time aliey thought that the company should have a anui to conduct the tram who would ahti responsible and atho had no other duties to attend to those n ho visited the wreck agree that it is a mirac e that no one waa killpa in alio llio aa the klock niu t haie tha passengers passe around considerably at ahe t in a STAND bt the place feuers bad di sported and it was not learned ft bat their experience really was |