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Show SIGNAL MAINTAIN BROMLEY KILLED BY A TRAIN J. C. Bromley, a signal maintainor employed on tho Ninth district of the Wyoming division of the Union Pa' ciflc, died at the Dee hospital at 11:40 o'clock this morning, from injuries received re-ceived about two hours earlier, a short distance west of Gateway, Uintah Uin-tah county. He was traveling westward west-ward on a hand-propelled speeder, which was struck by Union Pacific eastbound train No. 6. The impact hurled tho outfit and its occupant oft the track and when Bromley was picked up by the crew of No 6, he-was he-was unconscious from a fractured skull. The station agent at Morgan ias notified of the accident and Instructed Instruct-ed to arrange for a physician to board the Overland Limited, train No. 1, then about due. This Instruction was carried out and when No. 1 reached the point where Bromley had been taken after the accident, it was stopped stop-ped again and he was placed on board and brought to Ogden, under care of the Morgan physician. On the arrival of No. 1 at the local union depot, de-pot, the injured man was removed to the Dee hospital where, despite every ev-ery effort to save his life, he died before noon. According to an investigation of the accident, which happened on a sharp curve near Gateway, it is thought that Bromley failed to observe the position of the block signal and ran his speed-or speed-or into the block, the west end of which had been entered by train No. 6. Owing to the curve In the track, the pnglno crew of No. 6, did not see the "speeder," until it was too late to avert tho disaster, 'it was reported that No. 6 was running at a rate of about 20 miles per hour, at the time. Bromley was 21 years of age and is survived by his parents, who live at Echo, Utah. oo |