Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-02-08 | Page 5 | Big Wreck on Gould Road

BIG WRECK ON GOULD ROAD BOULDER ON TRACK CAUSES A BAD SMASH-UP. Main Line of Rio Grande Will Be Blocked For Two Days Passengers Passen-gers Being Transferred. ' A heavy freight engine and thirteen cars were piled up in the ditch on the Rio Grande road last night In the Westwater canyon, twenty-nine miles west of Grand Junction, on the Utah division. Tho accident was caused by a rock slide In the canyon, and the heavy freight rushed Info the huge mass, of debris before the engineer could apply air brakes and stop tho train after seeing the condition of the track. Brakcman Oron Spencer was instantly in-stantly killed and Fireman McLead seriously 6calded and bruised. The others of the train crew escaped uninjured. unin-jured. Thirteen freight cars were demolished. de-molished. It was stated this morning that the main line will probably be blocked for two days as a result of the wreck. Eastbound and westbound passenger trains are meeting at the wreck, where passengers, mail and baggage aro transferred. Tho boulder which dropped on the track weighed several tons and had it dropped an hour earlier, eastbound passenger train No. 6 would probably have been wrecked. Railroad men been expecting this particular boulder to fall for years.