Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-07-09 | Page 3 | Gas Trailer Runs Wild, Rams Cab, Kills 4, Hurts 20

Gas Trailer Runs Wild r Rams Cab Kills 4 Hurts 20 WURTSBORO N. N Y July 9 INS INS INS-A A ton 30 truck trailer-truck Its brakes gone one and its trailer aflame rocketed four miles down Wurtsboro mountain road Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day and killed four persons and injured 20 in smashing into 15 autos Gasoline tanks on several cars carrying to New York from a Catskill mountain week end blew up as the cars were crumbled b by the huge truck loaded with household household house house- hold tanks of bottled gas as Trapped in Cab Seven persons were trapped in ina a taxicab that was engulfed by flames fJames and three of oC the passenger passengers passengers gers ger were burned to death The driver of oC the truck Marsdon Marsdon Marsdon Mars- Mars don H Reese Jr of Bayonne N. N J. J who was unhurt was held heldon on a charge of criminal negligence negligence gence genre pending further tion He will be arraigned before Magistrate 1 J J. Eugene OGorman O'Gorman Reese said his truck was just starting down the mountain span when his failed He pulled the emergency brake but this failed Horn Blares Warning Yarning Down the center of the three- three lane highway the truck sped in ingathering ingathering ingathering gathering momentum the horn I blaring a warning to the heavy line of tourist cars At the foot of the hill some 20 cars were halted at a red light Reese said he tried to ram his truck through a guard rail rai but was unable to cut through a line of cars on the outside lane The truck sideswiped six cars then plunged into the taxi It rolled into a two-lane two intersection intersection intersection tion zone hitting cars right and left before it stopped The trailer trail trail- er of the truck caught fire but the propane gas did not ignite