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Show IE DEAD; 1 1 HURT IN UNION PACIFIC CRASH I INJURED MENACED BY I FIRE AFTER FREIGHT I STRIKES WORK TRAIN I One man was cruslied Hi death and eleven wore injured, somfc ijl I Seriously, when an extra Union pacific freight train, easlbound, crashed into the rear of a work train between Knight and Altamont, iWyo.. at noon yesterday, telescoping the work train cars and cans 'M ing one to catch on fire. . mnv i- it in, i ... i r . Morris Ferguson, single second i i i H pile drtvi r, ( takli nd City, In- ! diana. 1111 INJURED. Mike Burke, pile driver, aged 10, married, Slotu Emails, Vortli Dakota, right Icy fractured, back u n nched. William tool,, aped :'.t. single. laborer, Wicks, Arkansas, ricbi l g 1 frn lured and left arm fractured. Vcls Jensen, aged SO, pile driver, married. BlackfOOt, Ida.. fa a bunicdi nose i rushed, hip lLilo i en ted. .n- Indcrson, pile driver, aged ! 2',',. married, Denver, "h., lacerations lacer-ations of the face and Itcod, right arm hractured, shoulder wrenched, Vndrew linker, pile driver, in-gle, in-gle, aged :'.4. Portland, ore., lacerations lacer-ations pf the face and head, back wrenched. William F.. Sylvester, brakeman, Ogden, married, aged i!.", fractured frac-tured onse, lacerations of the focv anil le ad kndj Williams, foreman, ani : 13, single, Omaha, lacerations ( tlie face, sprained back, wrenched ' George Onu frock, auetl 28. pile driver, iiiic, Colorado Springs, one rib broken. 1-iiui Blackfnan, aged 24, carpenter car-penter helper, Lucerne, Mo., left leg fr;u tuml, chest bruised, I 1 . i d Taylor, single, aged :t-. pile driver, Dickey, Worth Dakota. Icrt side Injured. Jeff stills, aged 84, -lujle, car-peutcr's car-peutcr's helper. R porta, Mo., laceration lac-eration oi the head fractured left j Failure to carry out orders Is given jH by railroad officials as the reason for il the rear-end collision j jH Fxtra freight train S013 eastbound il collided with work extra lSS'J, which H i was halted on the main line, nine miles iH I east of Bvanston. iif iHiH Til UN in MOLISHED. The work train, which was working H i between Knight and Altamont. Wyo.. ( lH i - almost completely demolished ilu lH th wreck, the three errs attached to IH the engine being shattered by tho clll I crash. MiaH The freight train was In charge of Qngineer Ritchie and Conductor il j Young. Engineer Gates, Conductor igsl iFelgh and Brakeman Sylvester were il I In charge i" the work train i JH According to railroad officials the lyir iIH men in charge of the work train sen: ' r IsLsn Flagman Baker back to Knight to 'H notify all approaching trains that the ' I K 'isl work train was operating between 'i'l Knight and Altamont. Baker carried : i.' these orders out, it Is said. 5, igl i i Sfl G u i i;ii RED. Whether Engineer Bltchic received .. jH the orders from Flagman Baker ami if rflH whether he failed to carry them out ll or not will be brought out In an III 'Vlssfl veStlgatlon which will bo held, it is i reported. lilwfjllsLBn The work truin was stationed in a UlxHUiBH cut about four miles from Knight. At rflolilll the time the crash came the freigh" iilinfLsfl train was moving at a rate of ten HhrflniSBLl milOH per hour Tho engine crashed I j '.V;lH into the caboose, into the flat car and ' Niiih telescoped the bunk car. in which the , '' men were preparing for the luncii , iH ' hodr I KrssLsl A small stove in the bunk car im- I issfl mediately caught fire and 'he major- I vHtllSLs! ity of the men injured received Sever i 'hLsH burns about the hi I i d bod; riic v. ere rescued from 'he burning car b I the crews of the two trains. " H Six Of the injured were rushed to Uii'lBLsl the Ogden hospital. They aro: Mik- Jjj jjH Burke, William Cook, Kola Jensen 1 i Jisl Gun Anderson. Andrew Baker, and 1'wasi William B. Sylvester. flH ,1 The remaining five Injured men and jfl s 'the body of Morns Ferguson were re- 7) jH 'moved to KvanstOU. h IjRUH A coroner's Inquest will be held Sj over the body of Morris Ferguson at S :j('liBH 1 Fvanston"today by Coroner Bryan. fSHftHBLlBl ! Wreckers were sent out from Green u, ; j 'River yesterday to clear the track. u Ih |