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Show Dan Ludlow and Jack Clark of Benjamin -Meet Death In Auto and Train Collision Dan Ludlow, 22 years of age, Benjamin,, was instantly , killed at 9:45 o'clock Thursday morning when southbound local passenger train No. 71 on the Union Pacific drove into a large school truck in which he was riding at a crossing in Palmyra, a couple of miles north of the Spanish Fork 'sugar factory. Jack Clark, 25 years of age, also of Benjamin, who was driving the truck, was seriously injured, sustaining a fractured frac-tured skull. He died three blocks from the Holy Cross hospital, hos-pital, where he was being rushed Thursday noon. The truck was completely demolished. The body was knocked off the chassis, Clark remaining in the body of the truck while the chassis and Ludlow were thrown onto the pilot of the engine and carried almost half a mile from the place of accident. Ludlow was dead when help came to his assistance, while Clark, although unconscious, showed signs of life. Both men were placed on the train which immediately rushed them to Provo, where they were placed in the baggage bag-gage room of the Union depot. Dr. Fred R. "Taylor gave - first, aid to Clark who was later rushed to the Holy Cross hospital in Salt Lake City. The body of Ludlow was ordered taken to the Berg Mortuary in Provo by a brother to the killed man, Charles ' E. Ludlow, secretary of the Utah County Farm Bureau federation, and his uncle, Charles E. Hawkins, county assessor of Utah county. Acording to the story told by C. E. Ludlow, Clark has been operating three trucks carrying students to the Spanish Fork high school from ' Benjamin, Lake Shore and Palmyra. I Ludlow has been driving the Benjamin Benja-min truck for him, while he himself him-self operated th Lake Shore truek. Arriving at the high Thursday morning Clark and Ludlow learned lhat something was wrong with the Palmyra truck and lhat the driver had been unable to get it started. Together they left for. Palmyra in Clark's truck. Just 'how the accident acci-dent occurcd no one seems to know. Immediately on being notified of the accident, C. E. Ludlow rushed to Provo where he was almost overcome over-come when he saw the dead body of his brother stretched out on a baggage bag-gage truck at the union' depot. Both men were married and were tho fathers of small children. Mrs. Clark's youngest child is only one week old. Dan Ludlow was the son of Mr. nnd Mrs. Walter Ludlow of Benjamin, Benja-min, where he wns born 22 years ago. lie was a farmer. He is survived sur-vived by his wife, Mrs. Wilma Hansen Han-sen Ludlow and n four-year-old daughter. Mrs. Ludlow is a daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Heber J. Hansen Han-sen of Spanish Fork. Judge Elias Hansen of the Fourth Judicial district dis-trict is her uncle. Mr. Ludlow is . also survived by his pnrents, three brothers and six sisters, Charles E. Ludlow, Floyd Ludlow, Mrs. T. L. Richardson. Mrs. James R. Hand, f Mrs. Orlan Tippetts, Winnie Ludlow ; Rettn Ludlow, and Alta Ludlow, all of Benjamin nnd Francis Ludlow of Spanish Fork. Jack Clark was the son of Mrs. Susie Johnsoti of Benjamin. He is survived by his mother, two brothers broth-ers and one sister, Henry Clark nnd Ed Clark of Benjamin nnd Mrs. Heber Clayson of Lake Shore. His wife, Mrs. Joyce Isgreere Clark and two children, one yenr old nnd a week old, nlso survive him. Mrs. Clark Is the daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Sol Isgreen of Tooele. She Is n cousin of Stuart Morrison, 387 East Third North street, Provo. The nccldent train, southbound vlocal passenger train No. 71, Union racifie. was in charge of 'Conductor 'Con-ductor Lew Moore of Salt Lake City "ud Engineer Rossiter of Salt Lake City. |