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Show BIG AUTO IS SMASHES) TO PIFXES WRECKED BY PASSENGER TRAIN NEAR THE SPRINGS. Young Man From Salt Lake, Stranded Strand-ed During the Rain Storm, Writes Home For Another Machine. A six thousand dollar automobile went up in the air last night not in smoke though and came down a wreck. Train No. 9 on the Oregon Short Line, leaving here at 12:20 a. m., struck the machine at the tlrst crossing this side of the Utah Hot Springs and distributed tho parts or tho auto over the farm lands or that township. Harold Lamb, step-son of Mrs. Holmes of Salt Lake City, in a 60 horsepower Stearns, started from the Springs for Ogden at midnight and, in the rain storm, ran his machine off a culvert at the crossing. The hind wheels were across the Oregon Short Line track and the front of the machine was in the ditch. Lamb went back to tho Springs for help and secured Dennis Smyth's 6U horsepower Packard, chauffered by J. M. Pierce. A .cable was attached to tho "Stearns when the headlight told of the approach of the passenger train. A man was sent ahead to flag the train and the cable was disconnected discon-nected after a futile effort at pulling tho car clear of the tracks. The passenger pas-senger train acknowledged the signal to stop but failed to come to a standstill stand-still until afler It had plowed its way through tho $6,000 of machinery. Young Mr. Lamb surveyed tho wreckage and, without so much as a sigh, went back to the Springs to write home to the folks, saying: "Dear Mother: Send me another auto and expense money. My Stearns Is wrecked and I am stranded. Yours In haste and greatly In distress. (Signed) "HAROLD." |