Show IL 7 COLLISION I 1 AT LAI LAYTON ION SIDING I 1 t I 1 FREIGHT TRAINS CRASH WITH FEARFUL RESULTS L engine and cars demolished wife and babe of engineer frandson instantly killed d the oregon short line freight train 28 pulled out gut of the ogden yards yesterday a little before 12 for salt lake and only a few n moments after that time another freight train no 56 followed over the sane same road and headed for the same destination twenty was a heavy train containing something like forty cars of mixed freight at ogden the cars used by engineers william young and peter frandson as living cars were coupled on to the train young and frandson Pr andson had bad charge of steam shovels that recently had been i doing work near lakeside but had been commissioned to go to salt lake I 1 to attend to the work of excavating for the now new depot there the families of both men occupied their respective living cars the train was under the management of conductor ductor quinn train no 56 was controlled by conductor maloney aloney INI when 28 reached layton 14 I 1 miles milea out from ogden a hot box developed and the train was delayed the train crew commenced work on the hot box quite unmindful of the near approach of no 56 suddenly according to statements of people who were at the layton station at the time conductor quinn remarked that they had haa better flag 56 but as the flagman started down the track to do so a shriek from the whistle of 56 signaled that thal she was entering the layton yard only an instant elapsed when the engine of 56 crashed into the rear end of train 28 the engine on train 56 reeled and fell in a massive heap beside the track of the main line cars were smashed into splinters the track was torn up tor for a long distance and the head train was soon on fire caused from the turning over of the stoves in the cars occupied coupled by the families of engineers young and frandson frandsom mrs frandson evidently saw the im pending danger and with her six months old babe in her arms rushed to the car door to escape the he awful catastrophe just as she approached ap the ear car door the train from behind struck the train she was riding in like a flash she and her infant babe were thrown from the train a distance of fifty feet the child flying through and air like a sky rocket mr frandson who had stepped from the car and was standing off to ong one side when the collision occurred hastened to the sade bide of his wife and child but when lie he arrived there the jast spark I 1 of life had left their bodies they both had been instantly killed and yet there was not a mark upon tho the bodies of either to indicate that they had received injuries of any sort evidently the necks of both of them had been broken the car occupied by the family of mr young was derailed and badly wrecked in the upturning of tho the car I 1 the stove was upset and the car caught fire arx was standing on the platform of the station with mr frandson when the accident hap bened mrs mra young her six year old daughter and her infant child were quite badly burned and bruised about the body mrs youn young succeeded in passing the body of her oldest girl out of a window of the car to those on the outside and after a time she ahe herself was rescued the fire in the car was wag soon extinguished thus saving mrs young and her chil drien from incineration after mrs young had been rescued it was discovered that the baby only a few weeks old was still in the wrecked car the rapid work of rescuing the child wis was immediately instituted but it was fully ten minutes before the infant was wag extricated from the mass of broken cars it was finally found snugly covered up with the bedding and it Is stated that the childs life was likely I 1 saved by this means I 1 mrs young and the two children were quite badly burned but it is thought that there will be no serious results 1 there here I was waa a carload of cattle in the I 1 foremost train some of which were i killed and the others turned loose on the farms to ito be gathered up again and penned the remains of mrs frandson and child were taken to the undertaking parlors of mr evans of salt lake and mrs young and her children were taken to the L D S hospital there for treatment it is expected that mrs young will recover from her ber injuries as will her two children the body of mrs frandson andson Pr and hor bar infant child will in all likelihood be brought to ogden or brigham city for burial mr frandson andson Er has a mother and a brother living in ogden and mrs frandson was a brigham city girl only about 23 years old they were married something over a year ago the child that was as killed in the wreck being their first mr frandson haa been a resident of weber county for a number of years his home town being hooper none of the train c rewa crews was injured e except engineer oscar borg berg of tho the engine hauling train no 56 it is thought he has suffered a broken arm after 12 yesterday all oregon short line trains came in on the rio grande western track |