Show Fast Freight Train T Takes Lives r of f Two vo Small SmaIl Layton Girls Tragedy entered two Layton I homes on Tuesday afternoon when two play-mates play Arnelda Arne Ida Higgs 10 and Dena Hodgson 9 were struck and instantly killed by bya a Union Pac Wc freight train at the Gentile street crossing in Layton at p. p pm p.m. m. m i iThe The children home from school seem seemed d to be playing near the crossing according to witness witness- witnesses witnesses' es' es and ran onto the tracks directly i in n front of the engine It was reported the children made madean an 10 attempt to turn around but was struck by the cowcatcher and t west vest of the way right way badly adly mangling the bodies odies I I I I I The train with Hh 66 freight cars was traveling about 40 miles per hour with Engineer Harry I HarryT T. T Sulli Sulli- Sullivan Sullivan Sullivan van of Salt Lake City Cit at con con- controls controls controls kind was unable to stop for sev ral hundred yards ards 11 1 Mr Sullivan an stated that he saw the he girls running toward the engine and immediately whistled and ap- ap applied applied plied lied the emergency brakes Mont 1 R. R Thomas of Salt Lake City brake nan man on the train said the girls seemed paralyzed with fright at sight of the engine I Officers of the Davis county slier iffs iff's department investigated the the-ac the ac ident c A coroners jury composed of 3 Davis county men headed by J. J B. B Cooley C Cs of Layton after hearing stories s witnesses of-witnesses of gave a a. verdict tb hat that t the girls came to their death deathy by b y being struck by a locomotive and a nd that death was vas accidental Double funeral services service will sill be held eld h this Friday at 1 I p. p m. m in the East Layton ward with Bishop William Villiam A. A Dawson officiating In- In Interment t will be in Layton Kaysville-Layton Memorial park Arnelda Higgs was born in Lay- Lay Layton Layton Layon ton t on January 12 1930 a daughter of o f Levi and Helen Higgs I who survive survive sur stir vive ive her Dena Hodgson was born in Lay Lay- Layton Layon ton t on on March Marcis 13 1931 a daughter Lay Lay-I of o f Isaac and Dorsey orsey Roberts Hodg son on s She is survived by b her parents and a nd one brother Carl Hodgson r |