Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-06-19
Part Of Runaway Train Plunecs
Over a Steep Embankmcnt
AT Bingham.
BRAKEMAN BOYER BADLY HURT
Fortunately the Cars Kept the Track
TIL Vacant Loo Was Reached,
Reducing Damage.

bingham, Utah, June brakeman
W A, Boyer who WAS hurled hundred
feet over steep ombankmont with two
cars of the Copper Belt railroad IN "A
runaway train accident sunday aflcl.
noon IN recovering from his njurIoh
They are no longer regarded as fala',
and unlcss complications set In Mr.
Boyer VIII soon be- well on the way TO
recovery IN addition 10 severe mus.
Gle bruises the brakeman IN suncrins
from fracture Of the skul
Residents Of bingham who saw the
runaway train slroaklne through the
town NJ a 30'mllo clip until II struck
We ore cars at the OHIO Copper com.
panNF mine, and then reverse backing
up the llll again M almost the same
speed, today oNpross great wonder thnl
the lamuRo was not many times great
en- ~ the point whore the two cars
loft the track with Brakeman Boyer
lhoro happened 10 ho Il vacant 10, be.
low on the ears ana their ore Wouln
have crashed into the heart OF the resi-,
donce district sharper curves Mnl
would have thrown the cars into resi-
doncos can be found all along the track
but N chnncod tina, this one lucky
place was selected by the runoways for
their leap,
SIMILAR OCCURRENCE
Two years ago, IN similar runaway
the town escaped damage IN the samp
way the cars leaving NJ another point
where a vacant lot happened 60 De bc'
low II appears from examination o.
the ears that they left the track bocauso
the forward liangos Of the first ear were
ground of IN pounding around sharp
curves Had II not been for this oc.
curloncc the train would probably have
remained intact 10 the end OF rs via
run The ears into which the engine
crashed and was brought 10 stand
still wolo splmlorod into klndling wood
while the two cars Of the runaway train
which went over the ombankmont wole
no, injured after leaving the track,
They are the iron clad 'gondola' ore
cars lull, 10 maui heavy loads Of mln'
oral -
CAUSE NOT KNOWN
Just how the runaway was caused ia
not AnoWn, Engineer J, Mccnbo was
at the throttle and Fireman - A
Engla was In the cab, when the Train
Nlhllpu uuNO klhut from l0' NU'tl
tank near the Utah Copper comrnnNs
minp, Engineer MoC0bo Immediately
reversed hs engine, but this reversal
aid not take effect until after the col
llslon a mile below, AT the Onto copper.
,omponys ore bins, when a high .in,u
of speed had been accumulated about
| 500 feet from the end of the run, th1
two rear cars, loaded with Boston Con,
ore, left the track. rolling down the
i0.foot bank, ana carrying win them
Brakeman Boyer when the collision
occurred Engineer McCabc was hurHt
from the cab into an ore bin, sustaining
severely painful but not dangerous
bruises The nr, man hud Jumped whoa
the FIRST ears left the track, and the
collision lol, the engine Wlthou, u
crew, lis reversed lever immcdiatoR
took effect and the train started back
up th bin without guidance General
Foreman NJ w. Malone npprcclnilnR
,hc situation, took after the runaway
and ru,ouedod IN boarding the cnglno =
plot, he then climbed through he can
window into the cab and brought TIN
runway 20 n slnndNill
Conductor Ivan Wolfe saved hmHoll
by jumping before the cars were
ditchod