Engine no. 84, pictured above, was identical to no. 83, the engine involved in the fatal crash. UP records show that no. 83 was sold but give no date. Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection, Omaha.
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Melancholy News": Utah's First Fatal Passenger Train Collision BY A L A N P. M A C F A R L A N E
had enjoyed superb autumn weather that October of 1869. Salt Lake City and other population centers along the Wasatch Range were burgeoning with the arrival of trainload after trainload of immigrants from EuroU T A H TERRITORY AND THE MOUNTAIN WEST 1
Dr. Macfarlane is a physician practicing internal medicine in Salt Lake City. T h e Deseret Evening News, November 3, 1869, p. 2, in one of its rare references to weather in those days, unashamedly extolled: "We have had another splendid Fall season, the weather thus far having been remarkably fine and mild and admitting of out-door work being prosecuted to the best possible advantage. There is probably no other country in the world, in this latitude, that enjoys a finer climate during the autumn than we have in Utah." 1
