Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-16
A TERRIBLE PLUNGE.
HlITbTeadlh Escape Of the WesIbouui
Train Near ogden THIS hOFnill.
rRIGmrUL ROCK FALL AT uNrAn
4 Locomotive Hurled DiWn the Em
bankmtut,-The Fireman Reported
killcdj Engineer Ipjured.

A dreadful catastrophe was avettcd
this morning through this passenger
train due at Ogden from the Eas. ut
1880 am. being few minutes late.
Macy irght'ul accidents have 90
curfni from the same Gauss that pre-
vonted this one 10 appears that an
ta'lbound freight train with a helper
engine was making lts way up Webet
canyon about O'Clock this morning,
and the engineers had received orders
10 run from the nrut switch,
when IL about eight or ten miles
from Ogden, 10 the second, and
there allowing the incoming passenger
train to pass. This D. what saved the
passenger train, loaded down with an
unusually heavy burden Of humanity,
from being dashed down thu steep SIN.
bauEmcut a. tho worst turn Of the
Weber river
Unknown 10 the men, landslide
had blocked tau track IN the nclghb3r.
hood % Dsylrs Gate, and tho freight
train, on It's way 10 the second switch,
dashed into tho dcbfis. The flHt loco
motive Jumped the track, and broke
loose from the second, while the next
instant iI was precipitated down into
the raging stream below. The engi.
nCOr Jumped from the engine aud
broke his leg, besiuoa receiving other
painful Injuries, and Tumofa have II
that hu htH been fatally hurt. 10 IL
also stated that Che fireman was ia
siautly killed, but at the hour the
NEWS went 10 press this could not be
verified, the railroad officials aud
others refusing all information con.
crrning the affair. The names OF the
victims could not be- obtained.
Consideration ruiguud among tho
passengers on the train from tue east
when they learned how near thoy had
been 10 destruction, They were then
In lhe very Jaws VI death, aud many
ladies were thoroughly Frustrated with
the hight. Tue passenger train runs at
very high rate VI speed after passing
tho second switch east u Ogden. And
had II been on time this morning, IL
would have dashed into the land.
slide aud been hurled into the rocks
aud river below. Few would have
lived TO tell the tale.
The passenger ran Into au open
switch ani was delayed seven hours
| by the accident 10 the freight. Tue
train IL known as No, l, is the fast
mail anu ~ due Ia Salt Lake at ga. m.
Ga SATURDAY night the fast mail ran
into a rock car near nilliafd, MyO.,
and the engine and two mail cars were
| ditched. The engineer anu fireman
were both killed anu tho mail clerk
injured. The names OF the deceased
are William Lothbridge, engineer, aud
.. II. George, fireman. No other
damage was done 10 far as can DO
learned.
a News reporter succe eded In find.
lns superintendent, Bancroft Of the
Union Pacific this afternoon anu In.
tervlewed him In regard to the reported
disaster Ia Weber canyon this morn
ing. He stated that huge mass Of
rock foil from the oln four hundred
feet above the railroad track aud de.
mOlished the r0adbuu for "a distance
o, ninety feet. The rock rested
on tho track anu weighed about
twenty tons. A Waterman was cOgni.
zaut Of the obstruction, which was
located about one mile this eide OF
Uintah, anu wont forward - Nag the
passenger train. Tho Waterman, now.
ever, was not aware OF there being
special freight going east, aud
went up the liue ON lookout
TOT tho fast mail. Tue engineer aud
iiremen ON tue leading locomotive OF
the freight Jumped from the engine
lust 40 II was about 10 crash into the
mass OF rock, anu the fireman, whose
name Il J, W.. Beokcrton, broke his
right lex. The engineer escaped with.
! out no fiOus injury, The locomotive IL
badly wrecked Al the foot Of the en-.
Uankment.