Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-31
Five Farmers and Railroad 0per-
ator Under Arrest at Pc
terson, Utah.
NAMES OF SUSPECTED MEN.
Alleged Contradictory Accounts
by Accused and How They
Told Their Stories.
Railroad Onicials Have All Night ses'
sion With Them and Cause Wide
Local Excitement.

Five farmers and an oregon snort
Line operator were arrested last hisnt
at Peterson on the suspicion that they
had caused the fatal wreck at that
point yesterday morning when hrst
Sc. eastbound freight went into the
Weber river killing Engineer j. A.
McFeeley and injuring Fireman A. H.
Trask and NJ. II. Tice, the head brake
man.
The names of the men are
Horace Garder, married.
Henry Garder, aged 90
Louis Cobabe, aged L.
william Anderson, married
Irye Corrigan, married
Tho name OF the operator is with
held owing to the fact that he was not
directly implicated He is young
man of about u.s. just starting OUT
one and all are residents of Peterson
Utah, where the alleged crime was
committed,
NEWS RECEIVED HERE.
The men were arrested by Speclai
Agent Joseph Jones and claim Agent
McNiu and the news of the anair was
brought to salt Lake this morning by
Division supt w Z. Costello, who was
ON his way through from Evanston
where he had been on an Inspection
trip when he was arrested by mo
wreck,
Mr. Costello brought in with him this
morning the rail that had been placed
in the switch. 1t is piece of reguia-
ton steel rail 3 feet inches IN iehgth
and bears mute testimony to the par,
Il played in the derailment OF inc
freight train. 1t is broken IN two ana
nieces of steel are Clipped on where
the trucks OF the engine climbed the
track.
ALL NIGHT SESSION
the officials had an all-night session
u.tth the suspected men, who one ana
an told different stories. The only one
to tell straight story was the opera
tor From him It was learned that
these fellows were in the habit OF steal
ING coal from the cars and they gem
orally spent most Of their time loSfing
around the depot.
| AFTER the wreck a sack of coal was
found in the vicinity and It is known
| that Corrigan had an empty wagon
standing with team hitched not far dis
| tant.
ADVANCE EXPERi ENTs.
According to the story told by the
operator the men spent Saturday after
noon In the vicinity of Peterson. Henry
Garder demonstrated to the rest or
| them how easy Il was to manipulate
the block signal system so as to stop q
train. To show them he placed rail-,
| so il is alleged, across the track ana
stood on the end and Immediately the
arm of the signal was set at danger.
He is sid to have left the rail there but
was induced by his brother Horace to
remove II. Then Henry climbed up the
signal post and tempered with the
signal
RUN MEN DOWN.
with this information to work on
Messrs. Jones and McNitt lost no time
in hunting up the accused men and tell
ing them that they are wanted for the
crime OF train wreckng. one and all
strenuously denied any connection with
the affair.
SUSPECTS swEATED.
The old practise of separating the
men and sweating them was resorted
to and by the time Superintendent Co
stelo lett Peterson. all hands We're ac-
cusing the other fellow OF being Inn
pllcated
The story told by the men that they
wanted coal and had been hanging
around the depot IN anticipation of get
ting some from the cars Is their sole
defense.
Just why an eastbouud train should
be deraIled when all the coal comes
from the opposite direction is not clear
WHERE WRECK OCCURRED.
The spot selected for the wreckin
{ ls one OF the worst on the line. for afte
train has left the rails nothing cal
+ save It from plunging into the river
II Is situated about IS miles east o
: ogden.
] ONLY ONE LIFE LOST,
J That but one life was sacrificed
: cause for corgratulation, for just at III
time the freight train struck the OF
stmction. No. 3, the California express
was but a few miles from the spot an
would most assuredly have gone in,
e the river with It's cargo Of passenger
,. This train pulled into Peterson aft,
5 having been tagged just in time.
3 At first 1t was thought that an a
e tempt had been made to wreck tn
A train and secure the money and val,
ables In the express car during the e,
: element following what would ha'
J. been horrible wreck
y Further details OF the wreck are
IS be found I'm the Ogden department
y this issue.