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Show IH1IH CRUSHED AID BURNED DUDE! BUZIK WRECKAGE Accident Occurs Near Salt Lake Folowing Rear End Collision of Trains DENSE FOG BLAMED j FOR FEARFUL CRASH' ! Trapped Trainman Pleads for; Gun to End Life as Flames Approach Him ' i Denver & Rio Grande officials today; wec making an investigation of the ; railway accident at MIdvalo, near Salt I Lake, last night in which three train-, men were crushed ana burned to death and several others were hurt. ' Tbe-dead: j H. C. Spencer, Salt -Lake, .head-brakemau, .head-brakemau, crushed and scalded toj death beneath . lospjpc4i.Ye, . . . j "Clifford t'.W. ".Hoagland, brakeman. i Salt Lake, burned to death beneath , splintered caboose. C. P Johnson, of Salt Lake, engl-l neer, missing, but believed crushed to' dea'h beneath load of rails. AV. H. Kirkham, three other train-1 men, and a woman are in a Salt Lake) hospital. Kirkham is thought to be fatally hurt. Rear End Collision. The wreck followed a rear end collision col-lision between two Denver & Rioi Grande trains- Both trains were head-j ed for Midvale and the smash came, while both trains were wrapped in fog.! The engine fell over the embank-1 ment, dragging with it ten freight cars. Sparks from the engine ignited! the cars. Hoagland was caught in the splintered splin-tered caboose, and was burned to death before the eyes of his would-be rescuers. It was not until the caboose had been entirely burned that the charred remains coud be recovered. Spencer was riding in the engine as head brakeman. He was caught beneath be-neath the block of the engine boiler and screamed in agony for a gun that he might escape the agony of the live steam which scalded his body. When the smash occurred a carload of iron rods was precipitated over the embankment and it is thought that. Engineer En-gineer Johnson was caught beneath this mass of Iron. It is .surmised that the fog hid the rear lights of the forward train until it was too late to avert a crash. j oo |