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Show fOUR KILLED ih RAILROAD WRECK , ; , . ' i ' i Cars Derailed on Ogden-Lucin Cut-Off Are Thrown Into the Lake From the Trestle Two Men Are Drowned and Two Are Killed By Being Bnried Under a Mass of Rocks Six Injured A Southern Taclflo train, loaded with massive blocks of stone, proceeding proceed-ing from the quarries at Lakeside, ou tho west shoro of Great Salt Lake, to Bagley, wbero the embankment of tbe All- In the lake are being strengthened, was wrecked on the edge of a trestlo at 9 o'clock lb Is morning by a largo rock falling between be-tween the care. Many of tho laborers on tho train wore thrown Into the lake and several sev-eral of thorn were killed and Injured The wreck swept the cablo from the trestle and destroyed telegraph com- : munlcatlon with the scene of th ac j cidenL A epeclal train with doctors and nurses left Ogden at 9.30 this morning. morn-ing. Four men were killed and fix injured in-jured when the train In charge of Conductor Johnson was derailed between be-tween Lakeside and Rarabo. about fifty miles west of Ogden. Tbe accident ac-cident was caused by a large rock which had fallen upon the track and which derailed throo cars. The dead and Injured are all employes em-ployes of the Southern Pacific and mostly laborers Th Dead Aro: William Bromston. William Thorn. T. A. Ustream. Two AuBtrians. unknown. The Injured Are: J. J. Johnson. J. Anderson. William Westheffer. F. Martinez. J. Graham. Daniel Keenan. At tho time of the accident, the train was moving about ten mJles an hour, going from one scene of j work to another. The wrock occurred occur-red on tho trestle at the west side of the lake When the cars left the track they plunged off tho trestle, tearing down the telegraph wires which caused some delay In tho more detailed reports of the accident reaching reach-ing Ogden. The first report of the wreck was received by Superintendent T. F. Rowland at 8:40 o'clock this morning morn-ing and about thirty minutes later a wreck train, carrying physicians and nurses left the Union depot for the 1 scene. This train was In charge of Superintendent Rowland, General Superintendent E. C. Man-son Man-son left Salt Lake City for Ogden aj soon as word was received by him Ho arrived here at 11' o'clock and loft for Lakeside at 11:15. At 11:30 reports were received in Ogden that the wreckage had been cleared from the track so that trafflc could be resumed, ana that the relief re-lief train was on the way to Ogden. The train was moving east and. when about threo car lengths from the trestle nar Rambo, a rock which In some manner had worked loose from the embankment of the second track, which has been raised, rolled upon tbe track between the cars. The train was made up of an engine and tender, water car, spreader and following fol-lowing this an empty flat car and box car; next tr the box car was tho caloose and following the caboose wero 45 flat cars loaded with stone. In all. the train was made up of 49 cars. The rock threw the caboose, tho empty box car and the flat car from the track, and, as the momentum momen-tum of the train carried thorn on to the trestle, all three cars toppled ovor and fell ten feet from the bridge Into the lake. Some of the other cars were derailed, but did not drop Into the lake. In the box car wero flvo Austrian laborers and all were Imprisoned In the car which was nearly filled with the heavy lake water. When a hole was cut through the top of this car by the. rescuers, three of the men were rescued, but two of the Imprisoned wore found to have succumbed. These men wero no doubt strangled by the salt water. The three men rescued alive from tho car were but slightly hurt. The, other two men who were killed were on one of the flat cars which when thrown from the rails, sent thom down the embankment and heavy rocks flying from the cars halt burled them. Each of them was badly bad-ly crushed about the hend and shoulders and death must have been almost Instantaneous. I The six Injured men were on on j of the flat carsand, while thrown , down tjie embankment, ortunately I escaped the heavier downpour rf rock ! Which nroveil fatal In hlr vimnan- |