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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moab Man" data-source="post: 187654" data-attributes="member: 11881">[ATTACH]48439[/ATTACH]The answer has been found! It is the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. We went back out to the grave and retrieved the name. Examining the backside of the cylinder you can see the old adhesive telling as we suspected the stone had been rotated and placed incorrectly in the cradle. I am not sure what the B and L stand for and maybe it was just some personalizing by the family but the ID of the insignia is correct.Here is what I found on the person and this was fun reading everyone's inputs. OBITUARY FOR JAMES TAYLOR MCARTHUROgden Standard-Examiner, Wednesday, November 28, 1917TAYLOR M’ARTHUR WELL KNOWN HERE KILLED BY TRAINIn a train accident that occurred yesterday morning at 4:15 o’clock at the Utah Copper Mine at Bingham, Taylor McArthur, a locomotive fireman and until recently a resident of Ogden, was instantly killed.The engine on which he was firing was attached to a string of empty ore cars and was standing near the south end of level G.McArthur was under the engine adjusting a brake shoe when another train of loaded cars came down the H-G switchback and collided with the string of empties, forcing the engine forward, one of the wheels passing entirely over his body and mangling it in a frightful condition. Death was almost instantaneous.McArthur is survived by his wife who was at Evanston, Wyo., where they moved from Ogden some few weeks ago, at the time of the accident.Besides his wife he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Jennie Furgeson, who is now in Los Angeles, and the following sisters: Mrs. Jennie Shipp of Salt Lake, Mrs. Edison Putman of Omaha, and Mrs. R. E. Moore of Ogden. Mrs. Moore received a telegram from the wife at Evanston yesterday morning. She lives at 465 Twenty-ninth Street.The deceased was born in Ogden September 20th, 1891, and was only 26 years old at the time of his death. He had been at Bingham but about two weeks, having been transferred there from Evanston.Mrs. McArthur will arrive in Ogden this morning on the 7:00 o’clock train. The body was brought here yesterday following the accident, and will be buried here.The family has suffered two deaths from accident by members engaged in railroad work, his brother, William James McArthur, a railroad engineer, having been killed in a similar manner at Green River, Wyo., just two years, one month and a day before the fatal accident took the life of Taylor McArthur.</blockquote>

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