Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-04 | Page 2 | Tragedy Walks Mid Pleasure's Usual Haunts

TRAGEDY WALKS MID MID PLEASURES PLEASURE'S USUAL HAUNTS I Civic ivic Recreational Center Becomes Becomes Be Be- I comes Playground for fori i T Death in Fire t J B By VINCENT MAHONEY l United Press Staff stall Correspondent Correspondents s LOS ANGELES Oct 4 More 4 More than Ulan two vo score men burning to death in a n forest fire while within earshot others oth oth- ers were driving chipping and put- put ting It It was a civic playground this Gr Griffith park a n recreational center T that be became ame a playground for death in the shambles of fire and smoke 4 a that trapped them Men Ien caught in a a. a fl flaming coUin coffin cantered by byon byon laughing couples on on the bridle path below while white t whirred along the smooth w asphalt hatt road within a few hundred yards ards of the very spot the occupants about their dinners dinner an Cicadas Cicada chirping on the hillside as Z four our men move slowly down the foot- foot i their own figures and the dark burden between them a solemn black frieze iee against the moonlit Indian sum sum- iner mer sky A pair pall of sweethearts under the 9 eucalyptus trees further down the ope From the girls girl's soft laughter one ne assumes they came picnicking early early and dont don't know yet what has bas ii Soft cursing up In the canyon as the stretcher crews edge gingerly down the smoldering defile and one man gets an ember in n his trousers elnan cuff iJ Flashlights blinking like fireflies Inthe inthe In the the canyon bottom the hoarse shout We We Ve need four fout men here here and and the nIgh hIgh pitched sardonic echo from thear the tar ar canyon wall The Th stretcher bearer who had a pal back in there somewhere and who might have helped take him out any one of half hail a dozen times There was was no way of ci knowing riH Horny handed smoke grimed la- la sitting down to ham and eggs I in In the grill of the got golf club probably or the first and last times In their lives The clubhouse is not half hat a alle amile i mile lle from the crematorium up over the MIL hilt A bewildered woman woman woman-a a foreigner trying trying to th understand the policeman w who ho is saying Go down to the morgue and tell teU them what kind of dental work your husband had hade They cant can't cant tell ull see The air beacon on a neighboring hill hillI winging swinging to light the valley of death I f or a moment then sweep past