REE VT UTAH AU TROOPERS DIE IN WRECK f ove to c Put Orem Line O on Labors Labor's air List r I J AIN HEAVILY LADEN C CRASH A H Ot ON ONe Oti i 01 e HI a CI a Musicians of Regiment Killed 2 Missing and 16 Arc Injured in in Collision I Near Cotopaxi Colo Utah soldier ier musicians musician musicians THREE J- J Jare are arc dead two other soldiers missing and sixteen injured as a 11 lc result rosult sult of a rea rear end rend collision shortly before 6 G o'clock this morning at Cotopaxi Colo of D Denver r n Rio Grando Grande troop trains carrying units of the second Forty-second infantry from Ft lt Douglas to Camp Lodge Ia la The Tho dead Guy B. B Alexander of Heber bandmaster bandmaster bandmaster band band- master of the second Forty-second regimental band and formerly instructor or in music at the Utah Agricultural college at Logan Clayton Preston of Logan first sergeant sergeant sergeant ser ser- geant and drum major of the regimental regimen regimen- tal band a son of Mrs W. W D D. D Preston of Logan and nephew of George D D. D of Salt Lake Fred T. T Whitehouse a musician of the regimental band whose address had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been learned up to a late hour Bandmaster Alexander was married marrIE 1 only a few weeks ago to Miss Viola Allen a Canadian girl who had met the musician when she was a n. student at the Utah Agricultural college Sergeant Preston's marriage to Miss Marion Marlon Smith of Logan took place the same time Mrs Preston left for Logan Logan Logan Lo Lo- gan yesterday when her soldier husband husband husband hus hus- band entrained hero here REAR-END REAR COLLISION Dispatches s from Denver declare the accident was a rear end collision between between between be be- tween section 2 and 3 of a train carryIng carrying carrying carry carry- ing troops Both sections were loaded with soldiers The conductor of the second section reports his Ills train was traveling about five miles mUes an hour when the third section moving ty five miles an all hour crashed into his section The locomotive of the third section crashed rashed into the caboose and ana hospital 1 car of section 2 and crushed the tho tourist sleeper Both sections were rounding a curvo curve at the time Cotopaxi is' is two seventy-two miles west of Pueblo and about thirty miles east of ot Salida Physicians and nurses were rushed to the scene of ot the accident from both Pueblo and Salida While the list of ot the Injured and missing has not been sent out railway railway rail raU- way officials said all are privates and noncommissioned officers Because the tho dead are all aU members of the regimental regimental regimental regi regi- mental band the presumption is that the bandsmen were largely represented among tho the injured The trains in the wreck reck represented part of the third battalion of or the For For- ty-second ty infantry which left Salt Lake yesterday morning This battalion was to have departed Satur Saturday ay with the first two battalions but at nt the last ast moment moment mo mo- ment the railway company compan was unable to furnish cars MADE UP OF UTAH MEN Hundreds of friends of ot the officers officer and enlisted men of the third battalion were on hand to say farewell to the soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers as they th entrained yesterday ester ay Tho The second Forty-second is composed In great great part of Utah men and was as organized organized or- or here Many of the regimental Continued on pa page e 3 8 TRAINS DIER R TRAINS I d from JaI page pago l J 1 6 ii not are widely by reason of ot otI r I 1 proa pro- pro a citizens for tor them musicians of ot the regi- regi M 0 Q Utah men e pad glad directed the Utah lid for tr three years fe fl Id n from Europe where of oC the Church r st st. of Latter-day Latter Saints ollege lIeg-e to become r second i-second second at the time that Many of the theat 1 flayed ayed at the college un unto un- un nl ted to play with him was vas Sergeant Preston g nga a member of the Utah college ollege band Ills Ilia death ent drowning of his rag tal ra- ra 3 g l of oC the dead soldiers soldier's ho he will collapse upon ems ej tr son sons son's death