Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-20
FIERCE STORM
CAUSES TROUBLE
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Gale Picks Up Car and Hurts i
Down Deep
Cut.
SIX LABoRERs ARE KILLED
Rio Grande Trains Hours Late.
Last Nights Through Regular
May Arrive This Afternoon.
Worst storm in Years Raging Over
Wyoming 'ricing Up Traffic Com
Dletcly in Several Places.

Storms now raging in the district,
pierced By the Rio Grande in Utah
are raising almost as much trouble
as the Wyoming blizznrds which have
worried the Union Pacific during the
past As hours. No wrecks have beer
caused ON the Gould line but train
movement is all but paralyzed Both
passenger and freight trains are run
ming hours behind time. The com.
panS is simply up against it, to use
an expression dropped this morning
by one of its attaches No. s.. al
through train due in Salt Lake mid
night last night WAS this noon chalked
up TO get III this afternoon-some-
Emc. The other westbound trains
due mere this afternoon may get in
during The night sometime but if
they are running as far behind as
No Is, daylight Will be more likely
the time Of their arrival.
CAUTION TAKEN.
Owing to the fall OF heavy, wet
snow safe movement must be SLOW
and cautious. Deep cuts and gullics5
are liable to slip at any moment and
only care can prevent bad accidents
This care is being taken: it explains
why regular time schedules near
nothing.
fhe Salt Lake Route reports trains
moving fairly close to schedule time.
ule Los Angeles limited. due here from
the west at 1906, reached the city afout
noon No authentic news Is ever re-
ceived from the westbound limited UNI
til about 4 o'clocll,but it was announced
III the local offices that ',she" is run
ming as per schedule. The westbound
limited is due here at :55 p. m. The
flf No I E,Ff II,
doNe-tail with Wire reports however.
With the. exception of No. .. the fast
mail from the coast. which was 4G
minutes late this morning trains are
reported by local offices to be on time
on. the Hartman system The chef dis.
| patcher received word about noon to-
day that q fierce wind is sweeping over
l@NEomfng, and there is a foot OF snow
| at Green River CWyo).
The Associated Press says: one of the
| worst storms in years is now raging
over the Laramie plains between Chey-l
enne section and Rawlins. The storm
is accompanied With snow and Il most
terrific wind All trains due at C,hes-
enne are six hours late. and it Is re-
ported that several trains are block.
AIDED between Laramie and Isawliis.
LAST NIGHTS WRECK.
The story Of last nights wreck is
told by thte Associated Press today:
The dispatches say that as the result
Of an unprecedented accident on the
Union Pacific ut Lone Tree creek. 30
miles west of Cheyenne, last night, six
laborers are known to be dead and
several others probably met death
while 25 or 80 others We're injured, nanv
very seriously. A terrific gale picked
up the caboose of a work train. tore
1t away from its coupling and carried
1t over the edge Of a fill. 1t dropped
FL. fI. 4
of whom We're section laborers and
the terror-stricken men We're piled in
helpless confusion among Wreckage
when it landed The work of rescue is
still in progress and only disconnected
details have come to headquarters here
The names of none of the dead can b.
ascertained, and those of only three Of 2
the injured, Conductor James Lowery.
Roadmaster Corliss and Travelling Au-
ditor sumption are known.
WIND HERLS CAR,
The men had been at work below
HermoSa junction and We're returning
10 take n siding at that point for the
night whcnthe accident happened The
wind had been blowing Il gale all day
long and as darkness set in becon,.
stronger.
BY the time the train reached the
long, deep fiji at Lone Tree. the wind
had assumed tornado velocity ana 2,
q tWinkling The light caboose was torn
from the string Of fiat cars to which
1t WAS attached ana hurled down the
steep embankment.
The foreigners in the cai, at once be-
came panic stricken and those who
were thrown to the floor were tra,npleCt
upon. The car was reduced to ilindling
wood and twisted iron rods by the time
1t reached the bottom of the canyon
Those who We're killed Were either
pierced by splinters or trampled upon
or crushed under the debris,
A relief train was sent to Lone Trsa
and the dead and injured brought to
Cheyenne.
WIRES Still. WORKING.
The telegraph wires seem to lave
escaped the fury of the storm 50 far.
The PostnltTelegrap PHI company reports
its wires are still in working conGli-
tion but that the north and east wires
report a severe and increasing storm.
The Western Union is also still doing
business. The oregon Short Line Of
fee was in communication MItA OIna-
ha at an eRrly hour this afternoon
The Rio Grande and Salt Lake Route
wires We're working fairly free AT press
time.