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Show : I ITflHSiE : B GBDSSHG iSES . ' ' I SPEEDING TRAIN TAKES DELTA TRUCKER'S LIFE; i PROVO ACCIDENT FATAL I t SiaalSSaiSaSSaasasSiaSBaaeaassja State's Traffic Death Toll for Year Climbs to 18 in Grade Tragedies; Victim's Wife Sees Death Scene Two motor vehicle-railroad eraahei Thursday sent Utah's 1839 traffic fatality toll to 18 deaths as motorists wtra killed in grade crossing tragedies In Provo and Delta. The 18 deaths thus far in 1939 are 28.4 per cent lower than the 28 traffic fatality deaths to February IT, 1938. I Mute Evidence of Terrlfie Impart in Fatal Collision ! Salt Lake City train fatality toU stood at four sine January 1, THE DEAD ".TMl Ilh,rt D. H ID- w o. ee, ivita. SyS."" i Alfred K. WU- titti ton. SS. Frova. 7 . stands at ana, as compared t four deaths to th same date In 1S3S. On other grade crossing crash claimed a life In Utah this year, when Fred C Roberta, 34, Lehl. drove hi automobile Into tha aid of a freight train at Lehl January 30, Streamliner Carries Vehicle Quarter Mile Special to Tri Telegram DELTA, Feb. 1 Delbert D. Wlllden, 40, Delta, met Instant death her Thursday morning when th truck he was driving waa struck and demolished by a Union Pacifie streamliner. Tha truck waa dragged one-quar-ter of a mil and tossed aside. Mr. Willdsn'i body waa carried nearly a block before being hurled Ire of tha speeding' streamliner. Th tragedy occurred while Mr. Wlllden was approaching hi homo and hi wife, Mrs. Mildred Twitch-ell Twitch-ell Wlllden, who wss watching th truck from th eouple's horn near the accident scene, saw hsr husband killed. Track Waa Eaatheuad Th truck 'Was aastboand and topped at th railroad crossing, than started aero and waa struck by th northbound train, which was n rout to Bait Lake City. It 1 thought that Mr. Willden's view of the tracks was obscured by a highway overpass over the track a short distance from th ' f v - ' . . - " 1.... ' ; . 5 ' j "", - l ''-JV . , :. v L. ' ' ' 1 ' . m. - 1 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TRAIN HITS AN AUTOMOBILE BROADSIDE, Wreckage of motor vehicle demolished In Utah county grade crossing crash which claimed one life scene, or tnai in morning sun, playing directly on th truck windshield, wind-shield, blinded him. Th road on which tha accident occurred I used only by near-by residents. A cross-arm sign warns that It la a grade crossing. Mr. Willdsn's body was found near aa automatic bell algnal a block aorta of the scene and where another highway crosses th tracks. Track Smashed Th truck wss sent around th front end of th streamliner, and was lltsrally rolled and pushed n quarter of a mile before th traia stopped. Th train was delayed only about 10 minute her. In Salt Lake City railroad afft-clala afft-clala said tha train stopped at LyndyU and was delayed an hour for an Inspection, which disclosed "11 flat wheela and a dented front." The train was "limping" into Salt Lake City becaus - of th flat wheela, caused by sudden application applica-tion of brakes, railroad officials said, and was scheduled to arriv late In the day. It had beea due from Lo Angeles, CaL, In Salt Lake City at 10:22 a. m. Officials reported George A. Ros-stter, Ros-stter, DOS Center street, and W, T. Mulloy U. P. hotel ISO West South Temple street, were engineer and (CoattatiMl on Peso Peer) I Cluiin ts I Railroad Crossing Crashes I Take Lives of Two in Utah side of tho middle Una and. that the Impact waa unavoidable oa Aasnodt'a part. Two Women Hurt In S.' L Collision Mra. A. B. Patterson, M, of 124 Twelfth East etreet, and Miss Mary Jane Tolinan, ag, earns address, suffered leg brulaea and abraaiona Wednesday about 10:1 p. at, when tho ear la which they were riding, driven by Mr. Patteraon, so, waa struck from tha rear at Fourth East and Second South streets. Although tho driver of tho other car halted hla machine, hla name waa not learned, police reported. I tOsetleaed Praat Pass Om) conductor, reapeatively, of the streamliner. Mr. Wllldsa I survived by his widow and aia children,- Mae. it; Verland, 14: Carol, U; Lamond. T; Beth, 4, and Ferrcl, aa Infant. Poor Visibility Blamed In Provo Tragedy PROVO-Alfred It, Wilson, U. of 14 West Twelfth North street, was killed near here at approximately 10:10 p. m. whea the oar he was driving was struck broadside by a Salt Lake A Utah railroad train at the arses lag about 1800 foot west of the Lincoln high school. Poor visibility oaueed by snow aad high winds waa svldsptly the cause of tho crash, aa Wilson's rat waa struck directly by the front guard of the train, according to Deputy Sheriff George Loveless ef Orem, who Investigated. Motormaa E. L. Robertson of Salt Lake City told the officer he did not see the automobile en the tracks until ha was almost on top of It, and than applied hla brahea, stopping stop-ping approximately 50 feet from the point of Impact. A red light at the crossing burn constantly to warn ef the railroad tracks. Car Damolished Wilson' car waa practically demolished, de-molished, being forced nearly six fsst Into the railroad ear' guard. Deputy Loveless reported. Mr. Wilson was evidently returning return-ing to the main highway on Provo bench after taking hla slstsr, Mr. Earl Peay, to her home In Lake View, he aaid.' ' - Railroad official laid that Mr. Wilson waa alive whan taken from the wreckage, but died a few minutes min-utes after being placed In the train. He waa bora March t, 1905, at Spanish Fork, a son of John W. and Adeline Curtis Wilson. Hs married Elisabeth Anderson December Decem-ber 1, 1933, at Nephl, and bad lived la Provo since that time. Surrlvere Named Surviving are hi widow and mother, three sons, Larry, Paul and Gene, and a 3-week-old daughter, Maria; three sistsra, Mra. Peay of Lake View, Mrs. Clen Davis of Spanish Fork, and Mrs. John Wilson Wil-son of Baksrsfleld, CaL, and four brothers, Byron Wilson of Spanish Fork, Curtis Wilson of Los Angelas, An-gelas, Cel.; Elwood Wilson of Thistle This-tle and Andrew Wilson of Salt Lake City. The body la at the Claudln funeral fu-neral home at Provo pending funeral fu-neral arrangements. Three Persons Injured Badly in Smeshup ; Three persons had been Injured' Thursday and two arrested after a head-on. two-car crash near Woods Cross on the Salt Lake City-1 Ogden highway. Two women were Injured in a local accident fiertottaly injured in the Woods Cross crash was Miss Edna Aamodt, 35, Bountiful, passenger In a oar driven north by her brother, Donald Don-ald U Aamodt. 28, Parmingtoa. Miss Aamodt ia reported in fair condition condi-tion at the St Mark's hospital here with- severe and extensive body cuts and brulaea. Her brother suf- f.H Knrlit hfMilua Held In th Davie county Jail at Farmington Is Lslgh N, Smith, 2S, of 477 Bryan avenue, charged with drunken driving, and a paaaengar In bis southbound car, Gordon C. Donneberg, 27, of 330 South Waat Tempi street, charged with drunkenness. drunk-enness. Smith suffered face and head cuts, Ronneberg received cuts about tha mouth. Patrolmen John Vlaser and Lee B. Browning of tha Utah stats highway patrol aaid tha accident occurred about 6:30 p. m. Wednesday. Wednes-day. Their report stated that Smith was driving on tha wrong |
