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Show GRASS FIRE PERILS STOCK. ICE DOCKS A grass fire of undetermined origin, last Monday afternoon, threatened for a time to burn the PFE ice docks in the north end of the Union Pacific freight yards, and to spread to a neighboring neigh-boring field in which were pastured pas-tured several head of cattle. Quick action by the Volunteer Fire Department, beating out the flames along the edges of the blaze and backfiring ahead of it, kept the fire under control and extinguished it before major damage was done. aid to the injured, and they were removed to the Milford Hospital. The dead were taken to the mortuary in Milford, and later removed to Salt Lake City by ambulance. A National Guard hospital plane removed the injured persons, per-sons, accompanied by Dr. Felt, to Salt Lake City. Mr. Garn died a few hours after arrival, and Mrs. Nisonger died Monday Mon-day morning. ; Cause of the crash has not been definitely determined, pending final report of the CAB safety inspector, who made a thorough inspection of the crash Saturday, and interviewed inter-viewed various persons in Mil-tn-rA Reroin and Mr. E. E. Hughes of the CAA conducted con-ducted an investigation on Friday. Fri-day. Unconfirmed rep oris reaching Milford Friday and Saturday would indicate that Gibbs, piloting the ship, was not sufficiently qualified to be flying a two-motor ship, and that he had no instrument rating, rat-ing, was not checked out for night flying. Also, the question ques-tion of whether the passengers were being carried "for hire." was raised. Mr. Gibbs. it is reported, did not have a license li-cense permitting live carrying of pay passengers. It was tentatively tent-atively establshed that the pilot, after taking off, made a right-hand turn. Traffic at the Milford port is required to conform to the standard "pattern," "pat-tern," making a left-hand turn when taking off. ' A few papers and other articles ar-ticles apparently "disappeared" from the wreck before the CAA inspectors began their investigation. investi-gation. Any persons who may have taken any articles or plane pieces are requested to leave them at The News office, for forwarding for-warding to CAA officials. It was pointed out that these items, seemingly unimportant, may play a major role in de termining the exact cause of the crash. No Milford planes took part in the search, since all ships based here were in use in other parts of the state, and Ben Hill-man, Hill-man, airport manager, had been "snowbound" by bad weather in Wyoming. |