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Show State Investigators Meet Here To Probe Cause Of Rail Wreck YOUTH KILLED, SEVEN INJURED IN CRASH OF LOADED FREIGHT CAR AND ORE TRAIN ON B. & G. ROAD TUESDAY ' 1 1 Three state commissioners and officials of the Bingham and Garfield Gar-field railroad were in Bingham Thursday morning to complete an investigation to fix responsibility for the rail wreck which took one life and injured seven others when a runaway freight car crashed into in-to an ore train here Tuesday afternoon. after-noon. B. D. Nebeker, state industrial commissioner; A. N. Slaughter, inspector in-spector for the public service commission; com-mission; and E. A. Hodges, state metal mines inspector, had previously previ-ously finished an investigation of the physical aspects of the collision I D n rl uroA Im n I - L tm. i ...... aii iiifituu inursuay. Other members of the group were F. O. Hammond, general manager of the B. & G. line, and Harvey Garrity, superintendent, and CM. Brown, B, Si G. welfare official. No information of the conclusions conclus-ions reached by the investigators was available late Thursday afternoon. after-noon. Findings will be filed soon. Freight Car Breaks Loose According to an eye witness, a loaded metal Union Pacific freight car filled with 60 tons of metal brake shoes which workmen were unloading at intervals broke loose. The car stood on a slight grade, and gathered momentum as. It aped , 2 miles down the caiyon across a bridge and through lour tunnels to crash into the rear of a 50 car ore train headed for Magna. The wreck took place near the No. 1 tunnel two miles from Bingham. Accident Fatality The caboose at the rear of the ore train was demolished. Young Wayne "Bud" Cavanee, of Magna, , reported seated on the caboose ! steps was killed. The injured were: John Hayes, about 65, brakemait, bruises on shoulders and chest. J. A. "Tex" Marshall, 50, con- '. ductor of the ore train, brain con- ( cusslon and severe scalp lacerations. lacera-tions. Mrs. Virginia Lawler, 28, of Garfield, bruises and shock. Jerry Lawler, 10, son of Mrs. Lawler, fractured shoulder and shock. W. B. Haymond, the engineer; J.. E. Sherer. the fireman, and W. B. "Bill" Haymond Jr., a Bingham worker, suffered minor injuriej ' and shock. All those injured except the engineer en-gineer and fireman were riding In the caboose. The freight car jammed jam-med into the caboose with such force that acetylene torches were . needed to separate them. The outside out-side . of the freight car was only (Continued on Page 5) c YOUTH KILLED, SEVEN INJURED IN CRASH (Continued from Page 1) slightly bulged, but the interior was said to be splintered. After the victims were taken from the scene of the crash the caboose .was removed from the track and rolled down Dry Fork canyon. Injured Improving All of the injured were reported Thursday to be Improving. The two most seriously hurt, John Hayes, brakeman, and J. A. Marshall, Mar-shall, conductor were said by attaches at-taches at St. Mark's hospital to be in "good" condition. Pending reports of the investigators investiga-tors the wreck was unexplained. |