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Show 10 Sunday, December 19, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Navy Electrician Relates Vivid Story of Bus Disaster " (Editor note Here U one of the moat vivid storlea to be told by survivors of the Delle, Utah, bus disaster. It was told from a hospital bed In nearby Tooele, by an electronics technician, USN, Earl L. Talktntton. 18, Wichita, Kana.) By EARL TALKINGTON Aa Told to Roy Paul Nelson United Press Staff Correspondent " TOOELE. Utah, Dec. 18 (U.) I was riding the bus on my way home for Christmas leave. I had iust doied off when I heard the tus driver apply the brakes. I looked up and saw a bus sheading for us sliding sideways, f The next' thing I knew there fwas a horrible crash. The bus ahead of us Wrapped around us (and both buses burst into flames. The regular entrance and the regular exit were block by the bus which wrapped around our bus. I I remember laying in the aisle inui a lew ine-.i hhiuuhh ;eors D. Stephenson, 18, Fhil- lipsburg, Kans. In the rear start- mil r .if ors cms "psacs We are proud of ouY ability to do an expert job 'of replacing re-placing broken glass in your ear. The quality of our materials ma-terials and precision workmanship workman-ship will assure you safer, more comfortable driving. After all, glass replacement is our business. A call in person per-son or on the telephone will place this service at your disposal. dis-posal. AHLANDER'S 480 South University Avenue Phone 3700 ed busting out by thrusting their fists through tye glass. Then they started crawling out those who could. I was one of the lucky ones. All I got was a bump on the head and a bruised knee, and my lungs were full of smoke from burning oil. Most of the men on the bus were navy men, but there was one marine, two soldiers and a soldier's wife. We were heading from San Francisco to Kansas City. Us fel lows chartered this bus. An elec trician's technician on Treasure Isla-id had the idea and we all pitched in to buy round trip tickets from Burjington. The bus was loaded. People were very nice once we got out. They picked us up and took us here to the hospital in their cars. Here's what happened as far as I see it. The bus from Salt Lake City tried to pass a car. When he saw that our bus was coming, he hoariori for the ditch to the left. He started sliding sideways. Our driver applied the brakes ana our bus started to suae, rnai was u. When I went out the window, I lust dove. Luckily. someone caught me aid broke the fall. I hone 1 can ao on to' Kansas City and then to Wichita in the morning. 26 Pass Utah Bar Examinations Utah state bar examinations ' ; 11-- I T.' : J n . . i were successiuuy passeu nmoj bv 26 budding attorneys. 25 men and one woman out of 37 who took the examinations. The new barristers who will take their oath of admission in the near future are'Peter N. Lowe and Dean E. Conder, Provo; Omer J. Call and Lester E. Richardson, Brigham City; Deatf Newell Clayton, Clay-ton, J. Francis Fowles, Jr., and George Handy, Ogden; Don G Christensen, Fayette; Richard Hnrfrfv Howe. Murrav and the fol lowing from Salt Lake City: Leo H. Barlow, Lyle J. Bates, Cullen Y. Chrlstenson, Fred H. Evans, Sumner J. Hatch, William R. Ingebretsen, Frankland James Kennard, Max B. Lewis, Leland S. McCullough. Frank V. Nelson, George F. Reall, Miss Lucy Redd, Verl Carver Ritchie, Earl John Stephenson, O. Joseph Strickland, Earl D. Tanner, and Masami Yano. Names of Injured In Crash SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 18 (U.R) The list of injured from the Delle, Utah, bus tragedy included: in-cluded: At St. Marks hospital, Salt Lake City-Mrs. City-Mrs. Nancy F. Marschkl, 34, Lancaster, O. William B. Thompson, 19, sailor; sail-or; Pueblo, Colo. Richard Lesser, 18, Hayward, Cal. Kenneth A. Lee, 19, sailor, Denver, Den-ver, Colo. Jack R. Talbot, 19, sailor, Denver. Den-ver. Melving K. Irving, 19, "sailor, Thomaston, Ga. Carl L. Herrold, 18, sailor, Denver. Den-ver. Phillip A. Criss, 20, sailor, Bessemer, Ala. Lloyd Hodson, 18, sailor, White, Kans. Jerald Mitchel, 19, sailor, Great Bend. Kans. Hazel Bittman, 20, Wabuska, Nev. Winifred Bittman, 17, Wabuska, Nev. Henry Beaty, 20, Galena, Kans. (Talbot, Irving and Criss were released after first aid treatment. treat-ment. Ronald J. Flock. 19, Winfield, Kans. William Culpepper, 18, sailor, Wagoner, Okla. Gerald Kerr, 19, sailor, Pueblo, Colo. James Bryant, 18, sailor, Atoka, Okla. (Thompson and Lesser were also released after treatment). At (Tooele, Utah, clinic, to be transferred to Salt Lake City Civilian Civ-ilian and Veterans' hospital: George D. Stephenson, 18, sailor, sail-or, Phillipsburg, Kans. Katherine Hendrlx, 60, Akron, O. (Very critical). Cal Hendrix, 60, same address (husband of Katherine). Jerry Hendrix, 19, same address, ad-dress, (son of Katherine and Cal). Mrs. Wllda McClindan, Sandy, Utah. The following servicemen: Tom Linclcone, 19, Atlanta, Kan. Asseal E. Bell, 20, Preston, Ida. Will Edwards, 26, 3401 Federal Bldg., Denver. Charles Edwards, 23, same address, ad-dress, (brother of Will). Billy Johnson, Wetunck, Okla., (critical). Thomas Johnson. Tompson, Ga. Paul Maquardt, 1055 Clarkson, Denver. Frank Myers PFC, 21 Jackson, Mich. Shirley Ray Palmer, 19, Walters. Wal-ters. Okla. Eldred M. Smith, 19, Downs, Kan. Jack L. Stewart, 19, Macon, Ga. Don Stoltz, 20, Greely, Colo. Ivan E. Waller, 21, Sacramento, Cal. Margaret Waller, same address (wife of Ivan). R. O. Thompson, 20, 312 South Oak St., Witchita, Kan. Sgt. Ellis Scott, 35, Oakland, Cal. Thomas Chappell, 24, St. Peters-burg, Peters-burg, Fla. Sailor Crawls Through Bus Window; Escapes Wreckage With Minor Burns (Editor's note One of the survivors sur-vivors of the Delle bus crash was Apprentice Seaman Shirley Ray Palmer, stationed at Treasure Island, who was on his way home for , Christmas to Walters, Okla. Here's his story:) By Seaman Shirley Ray Palmer As Told to United Press DELLE, Utah. Dec. 18 (U.R) 1 was going home on a 16 day pass Offers Protection Sd IT'S Almoin OurA Here's a club to which all can belong be-long a club that will help you do the things you desire next Christmas! Christ-mas! Put in a little each week, receive re-ceive a substantial Christmas Check next year. That's all there is to it but its the surest recipe we know for a Merry Christmas and a debt-free New Year. Deposit Each Receive Early Week for 50 Weeks Next December $ .50 25.00 2.00 100.00 5.00 250.00 10.00 500.00 i Utah Savings & Loan Association 172 W. Center St., Provo, Utah ' I i 1 v and was on the east bound Treasure Island special. The westbound bus was passing a car on the salt flats when I first saw it through the fog. It was so foggy and our driver couldn t see him very well and I guess he couldn't see us very easy. Our driver suddenly tried to cut out of the way iito the ditch. But the bus slid sideways, and hit the other bus in the middle. About seven second later, our bus burst into flames. I crawled back about half way and out a window. I had been sitting" in front. Others climbed out, too, but I don't know how many. The bus had been full. I was burned a little bit about the ears and the back of my head. (Palmer's story was interrupted here by a military patrolman who ordered him to stop talking to newsmen and to climb into an emergency vehicle and be taken away for aid.) Navy Training Proves Timely SALT LAKE . CITY, Dec. 18 i'.Fi One of the survivors of the Delle, Utah, bus crash credited his navy training for his survival and that of many of his fellow sailors on the "Treasure Island Vacation Special." Jack R. Talbot, 19, Denver, Den-ver, Colo., sailor said: "We could get only one window win-dow unfrozen after the accident acci-dent and the entrance and emergency exit were blocked. "We formed two staggered lines down the middle aisle of the bus and the boys jumped jump-ed from the one useable window win-dow one at a time first the leadoff man of one line, then the leader of the other. "That's why so many of us got out right away, despite the fire." INVALID GETS ACQUAINTED RED WING, Minn. (U.R) Mrs. Sophia Wolpers has been confined confin-ed to her bed for 25 years, but that doesn't prevent her "meeting" "meet-ing" people all over the world. The elderly woman corresponds regularly with 200 persons in the United States, Canada and foreign for-eign countries. She receives an average of nine letters a day and sometimes as many as 25. She answers them all. A versatile electric pencil rharpener is on the market. It will cut a medium, fine or super-f.ne super-f.ne point. 13 Die In Utah Bus Crash, 39 Hurt, Fate X)f 4 Unknown (Continued from Page One) minor injuries and were released after first aid treatment. Aid Delayed 90 Min. Because of the remoteness of the crash and the fo coverins the roads, aid was more than 90 minutes in arriving at the scene. But within two hours, nearly a score of emergency vehicles had converged on the disaster from Tooele, Grantsville and Salt Lake City. More than 20 of the injured were first taken to the tiny clinic at Tooele, a mining-farming town about 25 miles to the east of Delle, which is a service station-section station 62 miles west of Salt Lake City. Accommodations at Tooele were so -limited that the injured there were being removed tonight to civilian hospitals in Salt Lake City, the veterans hospital in Salt Lake City, and the military hos pital at Hill Air Form Base, near Ogden. Near Streamliner Derailing Only 30 miles to the north of the bus wreck scene is Lakeside, Utah, where a streamlined train, the City of San Francisco, met an accident last night that could have been a worse disaster. The streamliner came apart when a car wheel broke "and 15 passenger cars left the tracks. But they remained upright as they lurched nearly half a mile across the smooth, frozen salt beds characteristic of this area and their 265 passengers were not seriously hurt. The exact bus casualty toll was hard to determine for hours after the mishap because of the location of the wreck and the fact that bus firms do not always keep precise passenger lists. The lone telephone line into Delle was jammed from noon on by emergency calls for aid, for information and for use in relaying relay-ing news stories. - Girl Believed Aboard The dead were first placed in the snow beside the road as they were 'taken from the wreckage. Then they were removed to mortuaries mor-tuaries at Tooele and Salt Lake City. One of the first bodies pulled pull-ed out was that of the east bound driver, Eggers. Attendants at the Burlington bus station in Salt Lake City said they believed that one little girl was aboard the westbound vehicle but were not sure. None had been taken to a hospital by mid-eve- nlng. . , . , The wreckage 'burned brightly for three hours until extinguish-ed extinguish-ed by firemen from the nearest towns. Alter that, It still smouldered smould-ered and sparks and flames occasionally oc-casionally ' shot up as the crews hacked through the mass of twisted twist-ed metal In search of bodies. The. careening vehicles locked almost exactly In the center of the fairly wide pavement. When they finally halted, they were across the road in grotesque fashion. Some survivors said that Harris' Har-ris' west bound bus attempted to pass a car just as it, unknowingly unknowing-ly because of the fog, approached the eastbound vehicle and that it went out of control. 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