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Show Ogden Man Dies In Garfield Trailer Fire ANTIMONY A 21-year-old Forest Service employee died late Friday when the travel trailer he was sleeping in, was engulfed in flames some 10 miles south of Antimony. Garfield County Sheriff Keith Fackrell, said the victim was identified as Howard Ephraim I I 1 was listed as Utah's first 1975 deer hunting fatality. I The accident occurred when an overheated propane gas heater started the Are in the I remote encampment. Exact I cause of death will be deter- 1 mined by the state medical 1 ' examiner. Twitchell was camping with a i group of deer hunters, Fackrell I said. Dense smoke prevented I his companions from pulling him from the trailer. The group used a citizens band radio to call for help, the sheriff stated. An unidentified communicator on Marysvale Mountain relayed the call to the Richfield City Police who called the Utah Highway Patrol and I Fackrell was notified. William Senn, Ogden, Twitchell's brother-in-law, was sleeping in the trailer when he awoke and found the vehicle filled with smoke. He was unable to carry Twitchell from the trailer. Fackrell said. Senn called for help from other hunters in a nearby cabin and they chopped a hole in the trailer, but smoke halted the rescue, Frackrell stated. |
