Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-30
LOSES both LEGS |:
BENEATH THE CARS 4 |.
H. p. Ransom Found Beside the
Salt Lake Route Track
On Third South.
ACCIDENT CAUSE UNKNOWN
Picked Up, Still Conscious, by Officer
Rhodes ut $50 This Morning
Chance May Recover.

H. p. Ransom, 2S years of age UP
till day before YESTERDAY engaged as s
locomotive fireman on the Denver
Il Rio Grande railroad, was run over.
by a train on the Salt Lake Route
between and $3.50 this morning and
both llegs cut off between the ankle NIX!
ana knee one of his legs was badly
Smangled between the knee an g
thigh, but both feet We're cut OH
clean, the feet being picked III e en-
closed in the shoes the man "ort
before the accident happened on u l,le
other. side Of the track rail- rail- me me
man was picked up at 6;3o 9 eioGF
this morning. still conscious. py o.,
Eiicer5 Rhodes, of the police force, ana
was taken to the police station, from
whence he was removed to the 81.
Marks hospital, where an operat,ioll
was performed in the hope of SAVING
4 the mans life.
ACCIDENT. A NJ STEIl1.
How the accident happened is at
present shrouded in nlystery.. y Q on, o,iS
is known to have been iii the gllelsti,,
borhood a the time it occurred, ana
\ n il nosslble that the unfortunate
victim lay at the side of the track
for more han an hour before pel Ell,
rescued by the police officer ~. Ing
information was first telephoned "
the police station by some one passlln, y
who saw him lying alongside IN .ne
track and heard his groans. , lile
accident happened &on Third ~, en-
street, between Second and ll ll!ls
South street and was caused, accolra-.
ing to the theory of those who knew
the man, probably while hewas making
his way on a freight train to Garfield,
perhaps In search of employtnen
Train No. 80, an outgoing local freight
trainson the Salt Lake Route. TO Lynn mn
Junction and 1t left this station at
o'clock this morning, on the track on
which the accident happened; train n Q.
"a, a local freight from Lynn Junction,
arrived over the same track at go.
while the through Los angeles express r
came in at $3.50 a. m. The yard engine
was also busy during the time between
a o'clock ana $50, the time of the find
ing of the man by the police officer,
and 1T Is not known which OF these
trains or engines ran over him. After
he was taken to the hospital the opera
ton performed. the man lay In an un-
conscious condition, and It. is not pos
sIble to state whether he VII live
through the ordeal or not.
z3s.8 GAME FROM INDIANA.
Ransom came to Salt Lake from Pa Pa
oil ,SIndiaua ION Nov. 20 He had clear
sance papers from the Southern railroad
in Indiana. dated Oct. 20. He was given
employment by the Rio Grande road IN
this city as soon as he arrived. ne
worked up to Dec. IS. when he handed
in his time of his own accord, and a Z
WASH Understood by the railroad people
that he intended to go back to MS
home. at Paoli, where his wife and his
mother reside. The name, of his moth
er he gave as Isabella A. Ransom, but
he did not report the name of MS
WIFE. So far as known, Ransom was
Of steady habits and a good workman.
He left the railroad of his own ac-
cord and his presence on a salt
Lake Route train can only be
explained by the theory that he
had changed his mind about returning
home and was on his way to Garfield,
or some other local point. in search Of
employment. as the only train he could
have boarded out of Salt Lake, NO. 81,
was a. local freight and only ran as Tar
south as Lynn Junction. some miles
south from Provo.