Show TRAINS COME ON S SPI P TRAINMEN ARE CONFUSED BY THEIR ORDERS Extra Freight Train Carrying Dc toured Freight for portland Caused the k Cut Up TWo Ti veteran railroad men being confused over ocr their orders caused a wreck between two extra freight trains on the Southern Pacific at Mote a small town west or of Nevada Thursday evening shortly after 7 In which no ono was Injured but ut considerable damage was done to toI the rolling roiling stock and the traffic c was I tied up for about aboul twelve hours Superintendent E B C Manson Ianson was near Mote on a tour of Inspection when the wreck occurred and aud he rush ed cd to the scene where ho directed the clearing oft ocr the wreck Ho was sum summon mon lion a board of inquiry and an investigation gation allon of the wreck will be 10 made The Timo wreck o occurred during a blinding snow and with witha a high wind blowing Extra traIn eastbound engine No 2811 with Engineer J R fl Watson and Conductor tor J collided with extra 2823 2323 westbound In charge of Engl Engi Simpson and Conductor Ic man Both engines and a about out a doz dozen dozen en cars were derailed The eastbound freight from Port Portland Portland land was detoured over oer time tho Pacific on account of Ume Ule of a tunnel on time the Shasta division of tile the therond road rond and had the right of track over oer trains of same class Engineer Val Valson son and Conductor were con confused mined fused over oer tile thc train orders and pass passed passed ed time the meeting point The former fornier has been in the employ of the Southern PacIfic fot fOI fifteen years and the tho lat latter leI ter for twenty years Both have borne excellent reputations with the tho Time Tho night a stormy one with a wind and a wet wOl blind blindIn blinding In ing snow was agaInst time the men menThe menThe The wreckers were sent to Monte from Crom Carlin and worked the clearing the track At 7 this morning It was announced that the track had been cleared and traffic fic resumed Passenger trains due Crom the west last nIght and this wore wee do de delayed and will not arrive until this afternoon Westbound trains have hae been heen leaving Ogden on time but were held east easl of the wreck |