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Show The Eaourelon to Ogden, About ltO people, moetly Sunday tcbonl worken, took In the excureioo to Ogden Saturday to attend the diatrict (Sunday ecbool convention. The U. P. agreed to run a tpecial train from Park City to Echo In time ;o connect with No. KM, bul they bitched en tbe pattenger coach to tbe coal train and managed to gel to Echo it 1 :30. On arriving there it wat learned that the reular traio wit off tbe track near Caitle Rock, and it wat bard to tell what time It would leave Echo. An effort waa then made to have the coal train engine run the tperitl through to Ogden. Orden were received to thla effect, liter lying In Echo nearly twobourt. and everything went well nntilCroyden wat reached. Here orden were received to wait lor train 101 which waa on the way. Alter long wait tbe train came in, the cart were attached, and tbe run to Ogden made, arriving at tVM. A rnah waa made lor convention held- qtiartera and all were provide! with placea to atop. The Crtt meetlof t held Saturday night, and tbreiothor tettlona on Sunday. They wire largely attended and 1 great deal ot goad wit accompllihed. Many ol our finniilt county people took parti oo the pngrani and did exceedingly well, bringiag forth much praiae from the niemben ol the general board. Moit ol the people returned Uouday morning, but on reaching Kcbo they learned that tbe Park Cltytngine had ran off the track and It woeld be tome time lie lore they could Irate Echo. Some walked to Coalville, but tbe majority ma-jority tlopped there until nearly to'clock. The engine nted on the coal train ttood jutl behind tbe regular train on tbe bridge at the mouth ol Echo canyon, where the wreck occurred, and it effort waa niado to get the crew to ran the train up to the Park with the extortion-lilt, extortion-lilt, but they claimed there aaa no water is the engine and It could lot get over to get any. The long wait In Echo cauwd the people to almoet lote the ipirit of the convention, con-vention, and had t lie y not been a (Sunday achool crowd perliapa ronaideribli cutting cutt-ing would have been done. The railroad company came in (or their (hare ol "loaning" hecautethey could have run the coal train to the Purk II tbey had wanted to but the V. P. doet juit about at it wauti to. |