Show l I Victims I I 1 I J I. I l I j- j w I Ic It c t r. r A- A I. I q- q 3 V 4 Mrs l Gorilla Corilla Miles Mile I I. I Robert Miles BLAST PROVES FATAL TO PAIR Honeymoon Cottage Is Is- Death Trap TOOELE March 22 A 22 A gasoline explosion explosion ex ex- in a honeymoon cottage caused the death of or a bride and groom of five months who were fatally fa- fa tally lally burne burned yesterday it was believed be- be hewed here today Robert 1 Miles iles 23 and Gorilla Corilla Peggy Jacobson Miles Mites 2 21 were married five months ago toda today Their families arc now preparing to conduct funeral services for them Sunda Sunday Gasoline being used med as a cleaning I fluid exploded yesterday afternoon and enveloped the couple in searing flames J investigation of the tragedy revealed Pall Pail on Stove sto Mr Miles had returned to the cottage cottage cot- cot tage age for lor lunch His young wife had been cleaning a dress A mixture of gasoline and soap and water was on the he stove Another bucket believed to have contained g gasoline oline only W was near by J The fluid bur burst burg Into flame me without Mrs iles v ran blindly about the kitch kitchen n. n Her young husband hus bus band his oWn Win own clothing blazing c caught her in his arms I Exit xit from the room that had be be- me a furnace was blocked Mr Miles smashed a window with his fLit fiSt the broken glass severing an artery artery ar nr- ar- ar tery In his arm The co couple couple- managed to fight their way outside the building before they collapsed They fell on hard pave ment Mrs Merle Johnson of Too Tooele v sa saw them the window They were cl clasped ped in each others other's arms she told The Telegram Mrs Johnson Johnon sm smothered th the flames that hat wrapped one body with a blanket blan blan- ket Francis Lowery of Tooele covered coy cov ered Mrs Miles E E. L. L Worrell a member of the Tooele high school p Pate e T Two To o BLAST PROVES FATAL TO PAIR Continued from Pace Page One teaching staff was the third per person on onon on the scene of IheI the 1 tragedy He aided I Mrs Johnson and andI f I Mr Lowery in their rescue at at- tempts Mrs l J Miles les was rushed to a Salt V Lake City hospital 7 L 1 He could not be moved As first aid treatment treat treat- It i Itt t ment somewhat eased cased his sufferings sufferings suffer suffer- i J r ings Mr Miles regained regained re reo re- re conscious consCIOus- i gained t r. r ness tS He He asked for his lus wife y She died in Salt Sail Lake City at p. p m. m He died Mrs Johnson near the cottage where he had begun married life and which became a house of ot death at p. p m m. m The fatal lire fatal fire was extinguished by bythe bythe bythe the Tooele fire tire department Damage Damage Dam Dam- Damage age was estimated at Born in Salt Lake C City tj D December ember 2 1911 a son on of S Samuel muel S. S and Ernie Walk Miles Mr Miles had made his home in Tooele for the last 20 years jears ears Mrs Miles 1 was born in Bi Bingham May 7 7 1913 a daughter of ot Sigurd J. J and Gorilla Corma Jacobson Several Survive Survivors of ot Mr Miles are his parent parents parents par par- ent three brothers Henry and Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence Miles of oC Tooele and Lewis Miles of oC Salt Lake City two sisters Mrs Florence Lund of or Salt Lake C City ty and Mrs Ada Bolinder of or Tooele Survivors of ot Mrs Miles are her parents residents of Magna four tour brothers Donald Sigurd Jack and Richard Jacobson and three sisters Sandra Emma Loa and Joyce Rence Jacobson n all of ot Magna Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p. p m m. at the Tooele North L. L D D. D S. S ward chapel Bishop John C. C Bryan will preside Burial will beIn be bein bem In m the Tooele city cemetery |