Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-02 | Page 2 | William a Slade Killed by a Train

uu WILLIAM A SLADE KILLED BY A TRAIN Salt Lake, Nov 2. Unmindful of! peril because of extreme deafness. William A. Slade of Taylorville. 51 1 oars of age. was killed by a north bound train of the Salt Lake & Utah railway, Just north of Seventeenth South street, at 12 o'clock yesterday. Mt Slade was walking from hi6 new home, which he was building on the east side of the right of way, to the residence of a neighbor, D. J Barker, on the west side, and a fourth of a mile north He was walking on the east side of the track, ju8t outside out-side of the ends of the ties, where a' foot path has been worn. Had he been walking on the ties, it is believed that he would have felt the jar of the approaching train. His position at the side of the track gave him such chance of escape that the motorman deemed the blowing cf the whistle sufficient precaution With the approach ap-proach of the train, however, the man tailed to step aside and the car struck him, fracturing his skull and killing him almost lnstantl