Show TWO KILLED OF IN CRASH TRAIN AUTO l I dies odies Unidentified for Ho Hours rs i. i t j After Accident Near 4 Cudahy Plant 1 1 MACHINE IS DEMOLISHED i 4 Eyewitness sS' sS Says Crossing Warnings Worked I. A search for or work Thursday brought brought- death to two of ot Salt Lake of or unemployed fj J City's army array I Crossing the Union Pacific tracks track I Jn in an automobile at North Salt Lake I while on their their- way to the Cudahy Packing company plant to seek seck employment employment em em- two broth brothers rs met death f. f s their car was demolished by a 7 speeding Jp cd passenger train T t The dead are Robert are Robert Peterson 23 and md nd Elvin Peterson 35 35 both of w st South street streett t t Killed Instantly Th The accident oc occurred at a a. a m. m t h Elvin his skull crushed when he was thrown froth from the llie c cr car r r. r was k killed in instantly in in- tanU Robert h hi hL bod body resting on the engine pilot when the train was wasL L halted died two hours later at St. St Marks Mark's hospital I. I The crash occurred according to o Jo Joe Tho Thomas as a Cudahy Packing Cudahy-Packing Packing cOmpany company com corn pany and eye ec witness to toi i the trag tragedy dy when the coupe in which I th the two were were riding drove onto the tr tracks track as southbound Union Pacific tram train No 1 7 tr from t the e east t ap- ap p. p fI I g preached pt ched The car he said sat J. J was was tray tray- cling eling at a wod moderate rate According c t to Mr Thomas the engineer engineer engineer en en en- F Fv F. B. B Pitt sounded a warning warn warn- I ing ingis ingas as the train approached the cr cross crossing crass crass- Sing ing and Warning arning wigwag and bell signals on Ort both sides of the three- three J tra track k crossing were operating The driver driver believed b eved to have been Robert 7 Peterson evidently evidently- did not nol hear or ortee tee see ee the w warnings he said as the ther I r car rolled onto the crossing apparently apparently apparently without slowing down 25 S Feet The automobile was rolled and dragged for 25 feet in front of ot the locomotive before it was tossed aside demol demolished The body of oC Elvin lay layn nearby earby n rb Thrown from the car he Apparently landed head first on a steel rail H His skull kull was crushed Robert Rober a also thrown from the car was caught on the front of the en- en line and carried yards down the Continued on Page Pue Two T-rC SL SI S. LII L. TRAIN HITS AUTO TWO DIE Brothers Killed in Crossing Crash While Hunting for Work f. f Continued from Put Pare One track before Engineer Pitt could halt the tie train of ot the Cudahy plant pant took Robert to the hospital in Salt Lake City in a private automobile while the police ambulance from Salt Lake Like City was cas used wed to convey the body of or Elvin to a mortuary at Bountiful Patrolmen Pa C. C H. H and E. E C. C Hale summoned Sheriff Joseph Joceph Hoi Hol brook Sheriff Sherill Holbrook following an in investigation in said he hc did not believe an inquest would be held Member Members of or the train crew on No due in Salt Lake Cit City at ft a. m. m were H. H G. G Machart fireman M. M f. f Darms Darm conductor T. T W Palmer and nd F. F M. M r. r Rogers brak brakemen en Whisper WhIspers WIle Wife's Name Identity of t the two to was riot not fully established until afternoon Neither body boro bore any personal iden and the car bore boro only an Jd 1933 license icene and lInd a temporary permit permit per per- mit issued to Robert Peterson of or Provo June 20 and which expired Jul July 6 Robert barely regained consciousness conscious conscious- ness at the hospital whispered his wife's wiCe's name Rebecca then lapsed Into unconsciousness and finally death before be he could give Ills his name or address addres However through h Robert Peterson's Petersons Peter Peter- sons son's having b been en on 00 F FER E R A rolls in J Provo before belore coming to Salt Lake City last Tuesday he was was traced traced to the home of or a sister Mrs Mu Annie West First South street Salt Lake City Her husband George identified both bodI bodies s in inthe inthe inthe the Union mortuary at t Bountiful shortly after noon The brothers according to a a sister Mrs Marn Mar Smith Lake hotel had Jone one to the Cudahy pl plant nt at it North Salt alt Lake seeking empl employment Un Unable ble to Obtain to-Obtain Obtain Work Robert Mrs Smith said laid came cameto to Salt Lake City from Provo only last Jast Tuesday He had been in Provo for for about about three months but had been en unable to obtain work I Elvin came here from Neola Utah our old home three d days dys s 's ago They were staying with my sister Mrs and went went- out to the Cudahy Cudahy Cud Cud- plant this morning hoping to get Lome kind o of 01 work Elvin Elvirt was vaa born bani in Vernal in 1899 and Robert in Neola in 1911 Their par lar parents Joseph and Mary Peterson Are dead Elvin is survived sur by his widow Mrs L Lillian Reed Peterson and four children Glade Dwayne Cleo and Dale Peterson Robert Peterson is by his hL widow Mrs Rebecca S also are arc the following brothers and sisters Mrs Marn Smith Mrs rs Alice Peter Peter- eon fon Mrs and Jim Jun Peterson Salt Lake CIty Melvin Mel Peter Peterson n. n Provo Ole Peterson My MyUm Myton ton and et r Neo Neola |