Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-04 | Page 2 | Survivors Give Vivid Pictures of Holocaust

SURVIVORS GIVE VIVID PICTURES OF HOLOCAUST Burned and Smoke-Blinded Smoke Men Describe Escape From Flaming Can Canyon on ony By y NOR NORMAN N Ir B. B DEUEL United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES Oct 4 Variously 4 Injured some with hands and feet swathed in bandages others partly blinded by smoke and flame fame survivors sur- sur ivors today told their their- stories of the brush fire In Griffith park which burned 50 to 75 men to death Some recounted the heroism of Nick Maslach 51 51 who saved a score Maslach 1 fought his comrades to rescue escue them Seeing more than ban the others he prevented coworkers coworkers co- co workers from stampeding into the fire ire A crazed man picked up an ax You shouted and swung Maslach took the blow in m the arm and when others disarmed the attacker attack attack- er r all u reached safety by seconds TORNADO o OF FIRE FRIE George L L. Banks Banks 64 one of the oldest of the workers told from a hospital cot of a tornado of fireMen fireMen fireMen fire Men went cra crazy Banks said As Asle the le whirling heated wind swept around round the canyon it was like a cyclone cylone cy cy- clone lone of fire and ad smoke Men were trapped rapped before they had a chance I Ivas Iwas Iwas was vas blinded Fire whipped around my face Someone led me to safety Some of the victims fainted before belore they hey died said Fran Some were too weak to struggle back ack up up the canyon walls the heat was so great The men who reached safety Were haunted by the screams of those who collapsed still con con- clous Sylvan Creecy 25 credited his escape es- es cape ape to luck llIe took a diagonal course up the hillside and saw aw men perish above an and below him BURNED LIKE TINDER The greasewood and mesquite took to fire ire like tinder Creecy said Before Before Be fore ore we knew it the flames had neary near near- ly y encircled us Some of my ray companions sought safety in the section burned over by our ur backfire Terror stricken they leaped through the flames continued on n a few feet and went down in a welter of hot ashes and flames Their clothes lothes caught fire as they sought to leap cap into over burned territory The red ed hot ashes burned their feet They screamed creamed It was horrible Others of ot my group ran toward the fie top of the hill They ran Into Dwall awall n D wall of fire Fire came up from below elow Screams mingled with the thery drY ry crackling of ot the burning brush Pitiful scenes were were enacted in receiving receiving re- re elving hospitals In many cases there will be he no iden iden- victims victims were burned beyond beyond beyond be be- yond recognition except by dental work