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Show RAILROAD ACCIDENTS Railroad accidents ar multiplyinR throughout, the country, with Utah recording re-cording its share. No disaster of late presents more of tho elements of horror than that on the I'lali railway in which Roy J Ranson of Ogden, a brakeman, was I pinned in a caboose and burned to death. mi Tho v. r ( k occurred in No. 2 tun-nfe) tun-nfe) of Spring Canyon on the lino of the Utah Railway company and resulted re-sulted in one death and the' injury of four, with property loss placed at 5300,000 The wreck i. reported to have been due to a faulty or misun derstood order It is fair to presume the line of the I tah railway is not protected by the automatic safety signal system. No railroad, long or short, should be operated op-erated without the safeguard of the block signal. In the old days when the road9 in Utah were without the block signal, disastrous wrecks were of frequent occurrence. -oo |