Show severe wound at alie hands ol 01 a hobo thomas SIc Gourty miner who was beating his way from salt lake to ogden was the victim of a particularly brutal assault near farmington davis county at about 1 this morning according to the victims story he lives when at home at victor col and left that city sometime ago to seek work in utah lie went to scofield and sunnyside Sunny side utah but being unable to obtain work he continued to salt lake where he remained until last night his money giving out the boarded a freight train with expectation of coming to ogden to beek work he claims that when the train reached farmington about entered the boxcar box car of which he was an occupant he entered into conversation with them and admits that soon after the train started he made a vulgar remark to one of them who immediately struck him with some weapon and he lost consciousness ness when he recovered he crawled to the opposite end of the car and remained there until was reached when he went to captain brown and told bia story he was taken to dr corbea who attended to the wound which consisted of a gash extending from me of tho nose to a point on ahe left temple llis eye was blackened and swollen nearly shut it required four stitches to close the wound mcgourty was unable to give any description of his assailant |