The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-07-06
TWO ARE INJURED
ON LAGOON ROAD
Engineer and Fireman Bravely
Stay at Posts and Avert
Injury to Passengers.
BOTH MEN BADLY HURT
ONE HUNDRED FEET OF TRACK
TORN UP.
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kaysville July BIN wreck on the
Salt Lake & Ogden railroad one mile
north OF Lagoon. at o'clock this after
noon. Engineer Henry Armstrong. who re-
sides with his wife and family at 1872 North
Third West. Salt Lake. and Fireman
Thomas +. Stewart OF 40 North Third
West, Salt Lake. were seriously injured.
A train of four cars, with the engine and
tender, was derailed. section of the
track 100 feet long was torn up and the
rails displaced
The wreck occurred when the train that
left Kaysville at $50 reached a point near
the Leonard residence in North Farming
ton. The train was made up of engine NO
H. one OF The two large engines of the
Bamberger line, drawing a baggage car,
two regular passenger coaches and one
open excursion car.
Como ictor Charles Fletcher was in
charge. Only eight passengers were
aboard two of these being children. All
of them escaped injury, as did also the
conductor, who was in the baggage coach,
which was badly damaged. The engine
was being run backward, as 1t usual on
the return trip from Kaysville, the ten
der being the foremost part of the train,
and the officials Of the road believe the
accident to have been caused by some
part OF the tender becoming loose and
falling under the wheels, thus lifting the
trucks from the rails. There is a high
fill where the wheels first left the track.
but fortunately the engine kept the rails
until II reached point Wnere cut ndd
been made through q bank
Trainmen Stay at Posts.
The tender was thrown bottomside up
one side of the track and the engine
pitched off the opposite side. The engi-
neer and fireman. stayed at their posts,
and it was due to the reversing of the
engine and its speed being slackened that
the whole train was saved from pitching
down a thirty-fo0t embankment that is
-. IL fI1
accident occurred The conductor and
Two passengers, w. II. Copp of Salt Lake
and Benjamin Barrett of Kaysville, has
tened to the assistance of the engineer
and fireman. The latter was pinned down
by broken portion of the cab. He sus-
tanned a serious injury to the shoulder,
and ii is feared was internally injured.
The engineer was lying on the opposite
side of the engine, anG is perhaps the
more seriously injured of the two. Be
sides some scalp wounds that were bleed
ing profusely, his spinal column received
injuries that partially paralyZed his lower
limbs. DR.. Sumner Gleason, the county
surgeon at Kaysville, arrived at the scene
fifteen minutes after the wreck on a spe-
Cial engine, and gave the injured men all
assistance possible. He was Joined later
10y DIR. Dixon or Kaysville, Drs. Van Colt
md kessler of BCuntiful and DR.. Hol-
brook Of Lawton. all of whom arrived
within an hour after the accident.
Senator Bamberger was attending a
reached him, and Immediately started for
the scene on an engine, and was there
10 direct the work of caring for the in
jured He expressed sincere sorrow at
the injury of Engineer Armstrong. of
whom he spoke as one of his most faith
full and trusted employees. He immediate
ly ordered special train from Salt Lake
10 convey the men to the L: d. II. hospi-
tai. where they were taken for treatment
The work of removing the wreckage is
now under way, the Oregon Short Line
having placed its train and wrecking crew
at the disposal of the Lagoon. road.
The place where the accident occurred
is on a section of new foad connecting
the Lagoon with Keysville but the acct
dent seems to have been one that might
Fave occurred as easily on any other
part of the line.
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