Ogden Daily Standard | 1908-10-29 | Page 8 | Damage Suit is Settled

DAMAGE SUIT IS SETTLED under stipulation mrs annie E sanders receives salt lake oct 28 judgment by stipulation for was entered in the district court yesterday in the case of annie E panders against the salt lake ogden odon railroad company the amount ii i for the I 1 lull full sum sued for by mrs sanders whose husband was killed on the bamberger toad on the night of july 31 1903 sanders as an engineer on the lagoon line was baul hauling frig a heavy train to salt lake from the resort A work train from the bamberger brick yards rear near bountiful had preceded the passenger trail train to u the city V orill only s a few minutes about one halt haic a mile north of beeks becks hot springs the rear car of the work train broke loose aud and was left standing tan ding on the track 7 the 16 flagman of the work train discovered that the ear car had broken away and was sent lack back to stop the coming passenger trun train but could not teach reach the car in time to give the the d dump ump c cur tr was wag not seen b by sanders I 1 in n time to stop his engine and the locomotive cra crashed sied into the car turned over and rolled into a ten toot oot ditch pinning 1 anders sanders S beneath the engine and crushing out his life sanders had been an engineer for wenty alve years and had been em in the bamberger road for a 1 period of several years soon after the accident his wife entered a suit auit against the railroad company for 1 damages simon bamberger president of ane road lid aid not fight tho the case but agreed to pay mrs sanders the amount asked for