Show IF Former ormer Resident Dies In Blizzard on Saturday A Union Pacific train killed a switch watcher Tyler H. H Thompson Thomp Thomp- apparently as he was son 54 thrown into its path by a gale gaIt luring during a blizzard Saturday att- att at Warner Varner Junction station station station sta sta- tion near Tooele Thompson had been cleaning cleaning cleaning clean clean- Mr Ir ing snOW snow from switches s when he hemet hemet hemet met met his death under the train Salt Lake officials of the railroad company said that he could have been tossed onto the track by the wind or blinded by the blizzard and failed to see the approaching train No 4 After his bod body was discovered on the track by the crew of a second second second sec sec- ond train following eastbound No 4 two snowplows had to clear the way from the Tooele- Tooele Grantsville highway to the station station station sta sta- tion to permit an ambulance of Tooele mortuary to reach the spot and bring his bod body out Investigating officers were Tooele County Sheriff C. C A. A Hyenas Hymas Hymas Hy- Hy mas enas aid and Coroner Frank Frail Fralley Frailey e Mr Ir Thompson was born at Panguitch Garfield count county June 24 1895 He is survived by his widow Mrs Juanita M Myers ers Thompson a son Ralph Thompson Thomp Thomp- son and a daughter Mrs Edna EdnaMae EdnaMae Mae T T. all of Warner Junction a brother in Panguitch John Thompson and a half haIr brother Drother Nolan McGuire of Panguitch Panguitch Pan pan- gultch and two brothers George and Oscar at Lovell Wyoming |