Show I Sad Tra Tragedy ed- ed Takes Takes 23 Persons In Bus Train Collision 1 In a blinding fog and snow snO snowstorm storm early Thursday morning one of Utah greatest tragedies tragedies' took place when a Jordan school district bus loaded with SO 50 stu stu- students students students dents and its driver was hit by a I. I speeding freight train of of 51 Si cars about four miles south of Midvale The accident took place at J a d a. a m. m as the bus crossed the rail railroad railroad railroad road tracks of the D R G W V lines between lOOth and South streets 7 The northbound bus hus turned tur ed east cast east j i. i halted for the tracks track's and in i the path of the OfT orr coming train apparently neither neith r the driver Far- Far Farrold Farrold Farrold rold H H. Silcox of Riverton nor northe the th engineer E. E L L. of Salt Lake City was was aware of the im im- impending impending impending pending danger d nger until the moment of impact I Fragments Fra ments of bodies crushed band instruments bits of clothing 1 and the twisted pieces of O the thc de de- demolished f vehicle were hurled hurl d over f the snow Covered Cred landscape as the speeding train plunged into the buses side f Twenty-one Twenty children were kill kill- killed ed outright and nd seventeen se were in injured in- in injured injured three gravely in the nations school train bus bus bus- rain greatest tragedy The bus was vas was split into and por por- portions portions portions of it carried 2000 feet fe t down the track and acetylene torches were were we're used to free the bus and ex ex- extricate extricate the bodies Parents of the students were r. r prostrated with grief as they walk walk- walked walked ed the hospital corridors and met mor morgue mor morgue where they iden ideo- identify gue attempted to thy their children Poor foor visibility was blamed for forthe forthe the accident according to officials 7 T who are investigating the affair The train whistle was as blown on o approaching the crossing crossin but Mr fr Silcox could not see the train as asit asit it approached as he was as sitting on the left side of the vehicle ve away way a from irom the thc train The fog was the heaviest he in 15 years according to Emery G. G Ep Ep- Epperson Ep- Ep person lerson teacher in the Jordan school district Owing g to the close clo e proximity of the river bed tIns thus F s is the mar sh h og sp r in Salt Lake 3 county Residents of the wards where the children lived are arc planning pl to I hold mass funeral services Sunday and Monday Monda The death toll was brought to 4 23 Thursday by the tIle death of Ole x Peterson who vho was injured ed in the crash |