Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 4 | When Gnats Stop Trains

I WHEN GNATS STOP TRAINS. Those who hare heard that Great Salt Lake is a dead sea must not understand un-derstand that the lake is lifeless. On that great body of salty water there are breeding places for gnats which are unequaled in productivity. The I tiny insects mulUply by the millions and then fly up in clouds. As to their purpose in the economy of nature, no one offers an explanation, unless it be to annoy humanity. On Sanday night the gnats on the Ogden-Lucin cutoff were so numerous they stalled a Southern Pacific train on the trestle and caused a delay to passenger train No. 19, One would laugh at the thought that a gnat could place its shoulder against a modern ten-wheeler and bring the powerful machine to a standstill Charley Char-ley Chaplin does something similar in " one of his funny sketches, but Charley stopB a picture engine as he proceeds to rescue two children from an awful death But many gnats on the tracks of the Southern Pacific prove the old story of strength in numbers. Though gnats are weak insects, in great clouds they are to be dreaded Unity of action is a mighty force-even force-even though the individual units are insignificant. rr.