Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-25 | Page 6 | Intoxicated Men Killed by Trains

INTOXICATED MEN KILLED BY TRAINS t Information received by railroad officials of-ficials in Ogdon shows that two men lost their livos Saturday night by accident acci-dent in Wyoming becauso of intoxication. intoxica-tion. The first report to come to the headquarters concerned the death of a white man named Pat Shanahan, an employe of tho shops at Rawlins. He was killed by a passenger train near the depot at, that city while trying to pass in front of the moving train. The report stated that ho was under the influence of liquor. His death occurred about 9:30 p, m. At Rook Springs, Wyo., a negro miner min-er named Shannon was killed about 11:30 the same night in almost the samo manner. The negro was also under un-der the influence of liquor, according to the report of his death. In neither caso would tho accident have happened hap-pened had the men not been under the influence of liquor, say the officials of the Union Pacific company. oo