Show Recover tah Slide Victims 1 A 4 J a LOGAN 1 LL 4 BRIGHAM L A T HORTH fRAT t SALT ro LAKE SALT LAKE map iap snows snow slid into canon burying rail workers Three Bodies Found Under Snow By fly Don MacKinnon Telegram Staff Correspondent BEAR RIVER CANYON Feb 5 Rescue 5 Rescue crews Saturday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- I noon had recovered the bodies of three Union Pacific Railroad Co 1 worl workmen men who lost their lives Friday Friday Fri Fri- day ni night ht when a tremendous s roared off the steep walls of or this canyon nyon 15 miles northwest of Logan blocking the canyon for more than eight hours Victims of the slide were James A. A Moran oran 35 W W. 2nd North Salt Lake City brakeman on the snowplow train working in inthe inthe inthe the area alter Walter C. C Rodgers Codgers ers 3 37 E E. South Midvale also a brakeman brakeman brake brake- man II H. J J. Jack Rush 48 Lima I Mont general g track foreman I U. U P P. Utah division i Burled Buried Under Snow The body of Mr Moran was re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered first buried under tons of snow on the surface ice of Cutler dam reservoir about aboul 1 15 ft IL from the shoreline His body was recovered recovered re recovered re- re covered about 11 a aim am m. m The bodies of Mr Rush and Mr Rodgers were cre recovered on the edge of the reservoir Mr Rushs Rush's at 12 1230 30 pm p.m. and Mr Rodgers Rodgers' body a hour half-hour later All three bodies were taken toCache to toCache toCache Cache Junction and were to besent be besent besent sent to Logan for forwarding to places of funeral services Mr Morans Moran's body was aS to be sent to Ida and those of theS the theother theother other two men were to be forwarded forwarded for for- forwarded S warded to their homes Clearing Tracks Mr Moran and Mr rr Rodgers were brakemen on a work train that was clearing the track in Bear River canyon when the slide engulfed them Railroad offic officials als said the work of trying to locate the other two men was continuing at top speed but a spokesman said all presumably presumably ably had been killed The work train crew was sta- sta See Sec Page 2 Column 3 Rescue Crews Find Victim Continued from Page Pago One in the C can canyon a a yon y o n to clear tracks and watch for slides The Themen Themen Themen men were buried burled in the second of four slides In that area but the train was untouched Escaping the slides were W. W W. W Halliday engineer R. R D. D Russell fireman Roy Coffman conductor all of Salt Lake City and George GeorgeL L L. Cache Junction road- road master Walk Salk Past Slides Slide Railroad officials said ald a heavy slide lido occurred at pm p.m. Friday and the three men moved ahead of the work train and walked over the early slides to inspect the situ situ- Another heavier slide roared down the mountain at 1015 pm p.m. while the men were in the area sending tons of ot snow over the track and burying buring the men Co Co- Coworkers workers said the three were apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap pushed off the track and buried either on a ledge below oron or oron oron on the ice of the Bear River reser- reser voir Work train officials said they did not think any others were trapped in the slide but said they wouldn't be certain until the area had lad been cleared Between Between 60 and railroad workers peace officers and Cir firemen firemen fire fire- men probed the slide area to reach the he victims A railroad crew augmented by crews from the Logan fire department depart depart- department men ment was at the scene equipped with ropes and ladders and were concentrating their search on a ledge edge below the railroad tracks and on the surface of the reser- reser voir Falls FalI to Break Ico Ice The crews reported the Ice on the he reservoir was so thick that the slide failed tailed to break it Aiding In the search were vere men under the direction of ot Sheriff Wes Wes- icy ley ey G. G Malmberg Deputy Sheriffs Thomas Rowley and Owen Litz Logan Police Officer Austin Frank and Logan Fire Chief E. E S. S Lau Lau- rence The Logan crews joined the search at am a.m. Saturday and were vere continuing late Saturday morning Four slides which occurred between between between be be- tween and 11 1145 45 p IT F F day covered a wide area and halted waited rail traffic for v vu The line through the canyon was cleared at am a.m. by crews laboriously digging through the drifts w with th shovels Hea Heavy equipment equipment equipment equip equip- ment was sas withheld from the operations operations operations op op- op- op because of the belief the three thre trapped men might be on the tracks Trains which were held at Ogden Ogden Ogden Og- Og den and Cache Junction pen pending pening ing removal of the snow were moving again Saturday Three northbound passenger trains and one southbound south south- bound jound train were vere delayed from sixto six sixto sixto to 12 hours by the slides Held at Ogden during the slides slides' were vere two sections of the Butte special northbound from Salt Lake City to Butte Eutte Mont and No 33 Northwest Special northbound from Tom Salt Lake City The southbound southbound south south- bound Northwest Special from Pocatello Pocatello Po Po- catello to Salt Lake was held at Cache Junction Rescuers were forced to enter enter the he slide area by railroad line because because be be- cause the only automobile road Into nto the vicinity was blocked by drifting snow U U. S S. highway 89 between Collinston Box Elder county and Logan was closed by I drifts and the road to the Utah Power and Light Co Cutler power station was reported impassable Steep Section The slides occurred in a steep rocky section of ot the canyon where the U. U P. P track bed is dug out of a rock wall The tracks at the point are about 40 feet above the reservoir surface The slides according to rail of ot ranged from 30 to feet long and from 4 to 12 feet deep They were in the same area as a hea heavy slide that blocked the canyon canyon canyon can can- yon last month but the January slide while it halted rail travel foxa for fox fora a time did not injure anyone Rescue operations Friday night were hampered by high winds that thai swept through the canyon drifting snow and threatening additional slides Mr Moran entered the employ p of ot the UniOn Pacific Railroad Co March 1 1 1934 as a motor car operator He later was promoted to brakeman and was assigned to the work train in the Bear River canyon area He is survived by his his' wife Mr Rodgers had been a brakeman brakeman brakeman brake- brake man for Union Pacific since Oct 12 1942 His wife and five live children chil chil- dren reside in Midvale Mr Rush was born March 6 1900 in Minatare Neb He entered en en- tereci U. U P. P service Feb 1 1926 as a a section laborer at Humphrey Idaho and rose through ranks to general track foreman |