The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-16
IN RAILWAY CIRCLES.
An Awful Accident on the
Utah & Northern.
THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED
Eleven Others Have a Narrow e s
cape-The sampson Excursion
Some Good Advice.

1
d ~ of terrible accident on the Utah
q Northern, which occurred on
Wednesday evening last. Just after
the train left Pocatello, it ran into a
herd of cattle on the track, wrecking
several cars and burying a number OF
| passengers and employees under the
ruins Three men were reported kllleo
and eleven others more or less injured.
No further particulars were obtalnable
up till 8 late hour last evening.
SOLID SENSE FROM SOUTHERN SOURCE.
Is Salt Lake City ever going to be an
important commercial centreH 1t will
be when Salt Lake capital controls a
railway to tide-Wa'er. To the Record
| it is incomprehensibl. why town so
we'll situated, a-d b sving among its
population so many millionaire s. should
have so long refused to recognize its own
| immense advantages. With q railroad
under local control to Underwater, the
products of Utah would, through Salt
Lake City, have the world for market.
Without such a road the city by the
mountain lake must ever be the slave of
railway omtinations, COZ trOlled by
people whose interes is are in other
places. But aside fro the great
public good that wCul follow the
building of such a road, its owners
would Immediately reap O rich re-
ward. If the railway that is surely to
be built from Salt Lake to the sea comes
this way, there will be ore enough
shipped over it to pay its expenses
without counting anything else. AS it
ia now. we of Phoebe have to paw from
SLOT SIS per ton (the latter figure ruled
last week. to get our ores to Milford, ITO
miles distant. This with IS railway
freight thence to Salt Lake makes the
price of hauling ore from $I8 to S23 per
ton. OF course, with this heavy charge
none bnt the high grade ores can be
shipped, and, as matter of fact. we
cannot begin to ship half our product
now, with all the available teams in the
country. With certain knowledge
that our ores could be carried in any
quantity, and at even as high price as
81 per ton, for the $50 miles to Salt
Lake, there would be hundreds of tons
taken out where one ton is now ex-
tracted. Further west the lack of
transportation absolutely prohibits ore
production, The writer, who knows
whereof he speaks, has repeatedly been
compelled to inform miners beyond Pah-
ranagat valley that. owing to excessive
cost of TRANSPORTATION from their mines,
1000 dry silver, ore on their
dumps simply has no value. This is
an entirely abnormal state of affairs.
True, it has continued many years, but
the time has come when it must cease.
The surging restless activity of the day
is fast croWding in upon US. What
was desert yesterday is a city to-day.
What is desert to-day will be city to-
morrow. Hereis rich vineyard. The
fruit is ripe and ready. Will you, gen.
tlemen of Salt Lake, come down here
an pluck it, or will you leave it for
your more enterprising neighbors
further east. Don't bother your heads
about the franchise bugaboo with which
the Central Pacific folks have been
fooling you the past year. There is
nothing in that. But there is some
thing in the road that is surely to be
built this way. Will you be the build
ers.-Pioche Record.
RAILWAY MEN AND CELESTIAL GLoRIEs.
Captain Tibb;ts, of the Rio Grande
PASSENGER service, assembled to the top
of Pixies Peak last Sunday, says the
Denver Negs. 81 had a funny expert
ence while on the peak" said the cap
tain. Its been good many years
since have attended church, and the
Sunday school hymns of boyhood days
had almost vanished into the hazy vista
of departed years, but for SONS reason
1 cannot explain, while wandering in
the thin atmosphere of the SUBMITS I
was seized with a singular desire to
sing the old and familiar hymn,
Nearer Ny God to Thee" 1.-The
reason for that" Clipped in George
Crosby of the Burlington, sis because
you were nearer celestial glories at that
time than yourself or any other Rio
Grande man had ever been before. Of
course sach rare experience must
have affected you very strangely" This
who at once challenged the off ending
party to duel.
PERSONAL AND Gen ERAL.
COLONEL DODGE, of the D. G. r. G., is
expected in Salt Lake within few days.
H.H. SHEPPARD, passenger agent of
the Chicago & Alton, is in the city en-
route east.
J. D. KENwoRTH, general agent of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, west east
yesterday.
THE Salt Lake Rowing Club will be at
Lake Park to-day. They anticipate
considerable sport.
AFTER tomorrow the bathing trains
on the Utah & Nevada will run only
twice day, leaving this city at 8 20 a.
M. and so D. m returning at 3.45 and
7.15 p. II.
The Mr.. Sampson of Omaha
Opera Company, goes out to Garfield
Beach to morrow on the $50 train. A
pleasant afternoon is assured, as the
bathing is excellent.
HARRY DEUEL., ticket agent of the |
Union Pacific at Omaha. who has been |
in Salt Lake for the past few days, &C
companied by his wife, left for home |
Yesterday morning. They had an en-
joyable visit. and were highly pleased |
with Salt Lakes rendition of Mr.. Samp-
son of Omaha.
KrNr,s military hand axcursiop n |