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Show GEORGE HALES KILLED WHILE SWITCHING George Hales, a brakenmn in ihe employe ol the Denver & Rio Grande I was knocked undei the cars bv a switch -laud yesterday afternoon and instantly killed. The body was terribly terri-bly iiiaugieii when removed from un- I der the wheels. dales was aiding In switching a' car in the local yards near the cross- ling on Lincoln avenue, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets ,,p 11 1 te switch and jumped on to the steps of 0 box car and was rid-Ing rid-Ing there when, in passing the switch stand he h SS Bt 1 U( !. ami hurled be neath the wheels of the train. Tho accident uas observed bv members mem-bers of the crew and the train was 'sloped as soon a possible. The mangled body w as taken to the freight house and later to the Kirkendall parlors to be prepared for burial Engineer H. A Sharp and Conduc-tor Conduc-tor W. B. Srahrs were in charge of the tiain George Hales was 52 years of age Before removing to Salt Lake, he was I a resident of Ogden for a number of ! ears where hp. was an emplove of the Oregon Short Liue out of Ogden lie was a member nf the local lodges of Trainmen and Eagles. A wire and a number of children ur-viv ur-viv him. |