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Show msmm us to CAUSE OF KGCIDENT Officials of the Bamberger Electric railway are holding an inquiry at the office of Boyd, Kccles. DeVine and Sline regarding the areideut in which 'Mr. and Mrs. Loran Briggs of Bountiful Bounti-ful were killed Saturday night and their little boy seriously injured, examined ex-amined a number of witnesses yesterday. yester-day. In making the inquiry, maps that showed the place of the aecidi at and the surrounding country were used At the conclusion of the inquiry, the Bamberger officials stated that by the evidence brought out, Motorola n E L Bradson, who was in charge ot the car, had done all in his power to stop the train before it crashed into the Briggs machine, that the train was not running at an excessive rate, and that the occupants of the automobile did not appear to h-ar or heed t)ie warn-. warn-. inirs siqn.i!". "The evidence (hat was given shows that all of the side curtains of the i IiricRs automobile were up," said Attorney David Stine. who was present i throughout the inquiry, "and that the lauiomobile was going at a speed of i about 20 uiiles per hour w hen it 'siruck the railroad tracks. It also irhows that Motorman Bradson was coasting his car from the curve into Bountiful and was not travelling at jinore than 20 to 22 miles per hour, ! that as soon as he saw the automobile he started warning signals, looting ihe whistle continuously, that he threw on the emergency brakes and reversed his motors and that the car wheels were sliding because of this action in effort; ,r' 8,P th car. Th statement of Hi1 attorney was confirmed by N. S. WllBtle, general superintendent of the Bamberger line, who came from Salt Lake to attend at-tend the Inquiry. "Motorman Bradson did everything he could, even to calling from his window while he applied the biakes, the air, the reverse, sounding his gong and whistle," said Superintendent Wil slie. "He was coming at an entirely; normal speed and using overy necessary neces-sary precaution." The officials also called attention to ihe verdict of the coroner's jury In Bountiful, which they said declared that the death of Mr and Mrs. Briggs was "purely accidental." although stat- I Ing that the car was travelling at a rate of 35 miles per hour. "The evidence that was given hero! disproves the statement that the car was travelling at that speed." said Superintendent Su-perintendent Wilstie and. instead, shows that the car was going nt slightly more than half that spec, This evidence was submitted by people peo-ple on the train and by others who saw the accident." |