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Show TRAIN-CAR CRASH KILLSPROYOJVIAN The jarring crash of a passenger passen-ger car into a loaded, moving coal gondola Sunday morning at 1:05 a.m. claimed the life of a Utah county man, Eliverto Archuleta, Arch-uleta, 45, of 616 S. 4th West, Provo. Three other persons, two critically, were injured in the collision. The mishap occurred on the Bingham highway a mile and a half west of 3200 West The auto hit the fifth car of a Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad train. Driver of the car, Tony Lopez, 31, Provo, suffered wrist and leg fractures, head and internal injuries. in-juries. He was in critical condition con-dition at Holy Cross hospital. His wife, Patsy Lopez, also in critical condition in the same hospital, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, fracture of the left leg and severe scalp laceration. Mrs. Lorencita Archuleta, 38, wife of the fatally injured man was released from St. Mark's hospital Sunday morning after treatment for multiple lace-Vi-tions and abrasions. Salt Lake County Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Pete Kutulas, who investigated investigat-ed the accident, said the east-bound east-bound car, a 1957 model, passed another car on the highway, then crashed into the coal car. The auto's front end folded like an accordion, the deputy said, and bounced backwards from the impact. im-pact. Conductor of the train was G. C. McCall, 783 Browning Ave. Ten minutes after the fatal mishap, an auto stopped on the opposite side of the train was struck from behind by another vehicle. No one was injured. Mr. Archuleta was born March 16, 1910, in El Rito, N. Mex., a son of Pedro and Crecencia Baca Archuleta. He moved to Colton, Carbon County, in 1950 and married mar-ried Lorencita L. Archuleta in November of 1943. He worked for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad until 1952, when he moved to Provo and was employed by the Union Pa- """" cific Railroad. He was a member of the St. Francis Catholic parish par-ish of Provo. Surviving him are his widow and a son, Provo; his father, a brother, and four sisters. |