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Show COMMISSIONS WILL KSIIGITE WRECK Cause of Collision Which Cost Three Lives Soon to Be Determined. I SpeciHl to The Trlhune. OUDEX, Nov. 23. Pendiiin intorma-ion intorma-ion from the public utilities commissions commis-sions of Utah and Idaho, W. A. Whitney, Whit-ney, general manager of the Oden, Lo-jan Lo-jan & Idaho liaihvay com)any, and other officials of the company have designated no definite time for the official of-ficial investigation into the accident which cost the lives of three trainmen at i'airview, Idaho, Thursday morning. Representatives of the ;comtnissions r" have been invited to be present, and it is possible that the investigation will be started next Monday. While officials of the company will not discuss that phase of the accident, it seems probable that the train dispatching dis-patching department will be brought prominently into the investigation when it is' held. Failure in the preparation prepa-ration or transmission of train orders is intimated as one of the principal causes of the accident. It has also been brought to the attention of officials a heavy fog prevailed at the time of the accident",' which made it impossible for motormen to sec ahead more than a lew hundred feet. It has developed that the casualties in deaths and men injured probably was due to a great extent to the fact that Albeit S. Warner, Dwight V. Reynolds and George A. Anders, all members of the northbound freight crew who were killed, were riding in a wooden car which served the double purpose of motor mo-tor and container for small freight shipments. It was originally reported that they were riding on an electric locomotive. This car. which was a long structure with powerful motors but light superstructure, super-structure, was built in the local shops of the company. When the two trams collided head-on, the motor used as a line car telescoped the wooden express car, grinding all members of the freight crew into the mass of splintered wreckage. wreck-age. Knos Rowland.-vanother member or the freight crew who was riding in the car, suffered serious injuries but will recover. Kdgar Cathcart, conductor conduc-tor on the southbound work train; Clarence Clar-ence Hawkes and Cleve Hauck, members mem-bers of the same 'crew, are out of danger. dan-ger. All are being treated at the Budge hospital in Logan. The bodies of the three men who lost their lives in the accident have been brought to this city, hut definite arrangements ar-rangements for the' funerals have not been announced. It is probable that the bodv of George A. Anders, wdio died at the Logan hospital yesterday afternoon, after-noon, will' be taken to his old home in Iowa for burial. He was born at Jelwein. Iowa, in 18SS). He is survived liv a wife and two small children living in this city. The younger child is three weeks old. The bodv of Albeit S. Warner is at the Lindquist undertaking rooms pending pend-ing arrangements for the funeral. Mr. Warner was a widely known railroad man of this city. He. was born in Og-dcu Og-dcu twentv-eight years ago. and had spent his entire life here with the exception ex-ception of two years spent in Canada. Besides his wife he is survived by the mother, Sirs. Jane L. Warner: four brothers, Hoy, Joseph, Clyde and Lawrence Law-rence Warner, and two sisters, Adella and Lcona Warner. Pending the receipt of information from relatives in California, arrangements arrange-ments for the funeral of Dwight, V. Reynolds Rey-nolds will not he made. He was born in Ogden, l-'ebiiinry 7, 1S7S, and had been employed in railroad work here since boyhood. For several years he was in tiie employ of the Ogden Cnion Railway & Depot company. Besides the wife he is survived by one son, 1 I years of age, and a sister residing in California. |