Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-24 | Page 8 | State News Section

STATE NEWS RUNAWAY FREIGHT CARS castlo gate utah may 24 about 9 last night a skiing of eighteen empty freight cars standing in the upper end of the yards in some manner started and running down onto the main line crashed with great force into a westbound frei glit train just made up at the coke ovens six of the empkie arc piled up and badly demolished alie engine ia stripped and head end caved in alie engineer and fireman saw the cars coining as they entered the main line barely in time to jump As they collided one of alio cars was thrown toward the fireman who in order to escape jumped into price river and had to swim across no one was injured except the fireman and he was only slightly bruised PROTEST DUE RESPECT manti may 23 thi i morning the contempt proceedings against the people of mayfield who signed a petition in behalf of andrew jensan defendant in a case of assault and battery which was tried here last week and who were cited to appear today to show cause was disposed of the parties concerned had been made defendants and answered in the regular way setting forth that while they had signed the petition asking for the acquittal of the defendant if it could possibly be done under the lai it was done with the that it was not to le presented until at the conclusion of the trial and that no ino tives of disrespect had actuated them in attaching their signatures to the document the answer finished by expressing unbounded respect for courts in general and for this court in particular judge johnson seemed convinced by the sincerity and good desires of the defendants fend ants that their motives had been proper and dismissed the proceedings