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Show ICIRCUS TRAIN IS IN A BAD SMASH UP Stricken with epilepsy as he was backing road engiue No 1066 to the Sells-Kioto circus train on track No. S in the yards of the O. S L. between First North and Second North. Salt Lake, at 12 15 o'clock this morning Wilbur S Noyea, 43, engineer, permitted per-mitted the locomotive to crash full force into the train. Jammed between the locomotive and tender he wan so seriously injured that he died at H a m George L Bowers, a clrcuB watchman, was knocked from a stock car, receMng a fracture of tho right leg Just below the knee, while Frank Walker, a driver for tho circus, fall ing similarly, received bruises about the head. When the engine struck the first car. loaded with camels, tho animals sat down in unison, hut scrambled up again uninjured A car of ponies in the rear of the camel car was chaotic with its scrambling live freight for several mlnutrs after the collision None of the animals was seriously hurt Horses Frightened. A stampede of the band of heavj draft horses used in loading was narrowly nar-rowly averted because of the noiac of the collision, the snorting of the ponieB and the cries of the frightened camolfl In the cars. Only the prompt action of the teamster at the bits of the horses prevented them from bolt ing Tho two cara that suffered most were found fit for travel with slight repairing, and loading was resumed shortly after the injured men had been removed from the scene of the accident. H. J. Jensen, the fireman on the engine with Noyos. escaped without injury and was able to leave with the circus train for Logau H. H. Tammeu, owner of the Sella-Floto Sella-Floto shows, was in his private car In the yards at the time of the accident. The car was with the passenger train of the circus and not near the accident. acci-dent. Mr. Tammen Joined tho elrcua estcrday afternoon coming from San Francisco. He arrived in California from Hongkong, China, on Ma 19 Word of the accident was taken to Mrs Noyes, wife of the injured man. at the Oxford apartments early this morning. |