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Show U A. I, OFFICIALS IDENTIFY MOST OF CRASH VICTIMS The mangled and dismembered remains of "a lot" of the 52 persons per-sons killed in the crash of the United Air Lines mainliner Friday near Bryce canyon have been positively posi-tively identified, it was reported. As UAL medical officers and doctors worked amidst rows of shrouded mounds on the floor of Richfield national guard armory to identify "most" of the corpses after the grisly task of piecing together the fragments of bodies was completed. Bud Evans, UAL publicity manager, said relatives of the crash victims have been contacted and the bodies prepared for placing plac-ing in sealed caskets to be taken to next of kin. Sparing no detail to assure accuracy ac-curacy of identification, four doctors doc-tors and three dentists of U A L and two local morticians assembled assem-bled and entered on charts systematic sys-tematic checks of identifying characteristics. char-acteristics. Bits of information anything that may be of an identifying identi-fying nature were listed on forms by stenographers who recorded the data. Officials also established an office of-fice for identification of personal effects on the victims' bodies and in the vicinity of the fatal crash. |