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As Oaden Stood Prepared to Assist Victims of Wreck JHE OGDEbT J AKLiEAIVlli ICI AlSil SI Monday Evening January 1 1945 - I Screams Sloans irtr - Of S P Wreck i 'i 5 i forts1 the toll undoubtecHy would ft have been much higher" said- one of the injured survivors Clarence Heberer chief' steward of the passenger train of Alarrieda Calif Heberer suffered head lacerations and was knocked unconscious u (Continued from P One) momentarily He awoke to a "nightwhich mare of screams and groans" 3 Saul Phillips 833 Second Street crescendoed out of the inkly black- - Oakand Cal internal injuries -ness M J Ralaske San Leandro The temperature was 20 to 25 CalMrsserious injuries j degrees but when Hebererhisgained C A" brakeman Ogden Russell way the outside after edging — z Z f1 through twisted steel and broken westsaw passengers the and he many is glass open bound main bound main is expected to be open wandering about Th first rosriTA train left Oeden late today one and hours after the Crews are about nau crash Rescuers arrived at the piie-u- p through the job of clearing wreckhalf an hour later to find pas- age from the tracks on the westsengers still milling about the bound main it was reported scene doing what little they could Among the fatalities' in the S P to ease' the suffering of the in- train wreck early Sunday was was Robert Erickson SeamanJ 15 jured 15 son of William Albert and ElizCause Unexplained abeth Hunt Errickson Seaman Cause of the Southern Pacific He' was born Jan 24 1929jin train wreck near Ogden yesterday Trenton N J He had beenat-tendin- g although officially unexplained school in Salt Lake City will not be officialy known until and lived there with his mother the completion of an investigation at 963 East Fifth South He and launched upon the arrival of offi- his mother were en' route to Berkcials from the railroad office in eley Calif to join Mr Seaman San Francisco accountant worka is civilian who It is expected the investigation naval supply the in Oakland will require several days after ing was injured The mother depot which an interstate commerce com- in the wreck but was taken! on mission hearing will" be conducted to San The Francisco boy It was unofficially stated that ed schools in Freehold N Jattendand the wreck occurred efter a freight theA a of was member Episcopal train had developed a hot box The freight crew stopped Ithe lirst church Survivors include his parents train following it with' signals but ' additional signaling failed to stop and one sister Lois Marie Seathe second which Crashed into the man whose home is at 501 Fourth avenue Salt Lake rear of the passenger train The sister came to the mortuary Meanwhile almost normal' operto identify Ithe ation of train service has been ef- 529 Twenty-fift- h " Rend the Air - 6 A At Wreck Scene i "Moans screams and cries burst from the cars'1 seconds alter a rear section of the Southern Pacific Limited crasheji into its first causeunit early yesterday" on the ma Great Salt Lake's way over ' lands Yeoman Frederick W Box of Elmira N" 'Yv aid who "Most of the servicemen coach the — a im 75 ner cent of to learh the passengers? got out" cairf Tlnx for- " me cause oi iL Star-Ga- imerly with the" Elmira half-cloth- one-ha- lf "rV i i j I 4 -- I t ' —-- Wi i- - !ZCu still was dark but we could cars aheaa na5 beebadlydamaged rear saw car after car piled in the y It was' foggy and frigid Train Telescoped "A diner dir ecuy to the kitchce that the two 1 1 'V - HV II —Photos by Mel Howe Shown READY TO IIEJJP above are Red Cross ambulances "standing by" at Ogden Union Parailroad yards followingthe Bag-ley wreck jit cific Limited train near the shores of Great Salt Lake At side is shown how victims were transferred from the Southern Pacific Pullmans into the waiting-- cars here and rushed tcuhospitals Railroad officials believed all the bodies had been taken from the tangled a dozen cars wreckage of nearly and locomotive r but workmen still toiled today to clear away the debris -- It was one of the worst" railroad accidents in the history of the west A sailor said a telescoped coach "was virtually pulverized seats and bodies crushed together" The passenger train first section of was the Pacific Limited No 21cause-way the running slowly along that leads to the trestle crossing Great Salt Lake when it was struck from behind by the second section made up of 20 mail and express cars wv coach was penetrated skidded en the Pullman having up the way of the dinfr'fSth- - BoX HContmued The express engine one-thir- d of the way — ii m hjiPhed evnress train r we sleeper both side of was telescqpedx-othe roadbed some pi u laKc inc into the of uthe injured Box said were in the ninth ear wa jaymej one which: V - a r:tii to nearly one-iuDy tne car wumu me suu inallv neakeo "vvnen it and nusery the mountains over the coacn Suffering in the -- n ice-cover- ed Wt Sn m - im ! virfaiallV" DUlver- bodifs crushed to- - — ized seats and uwu me oi Bodies cether rfnuble window yXI Will u On one side of the car four or five n'mDn wpro naeked together from - one i fiaiiv oirtpnHpd aim jamB" "PViaTTTinrist ot tne mates TVIUUUTV corpsmen navy andarmy the windowthrew and a blanket wer went to work' where moans of in jured emanated Axes Hamme xi Used t cirt-v cafH vnlnnteer workers used - axes and hammers to breakbutintoin Ithe twisted steel wreckage before a rescue — blC 4ha hours V - i'4h only trairt arrived had removed Most about 20 trapped passengers of the trapped men-- ' ana women and were J mid west returning fron Christmas furloughs aftej he f Said nr varatinns T "On the north side "of the car the body of a Colored army ser deatn- - jusi geant was seated in ahead of him lay sandwiched hu-- ! window high A jnan beings piled wonian near the top pile whimp- ered and screamed from crushed Others— mostly service men rom Page One) jegs (Continued — were-silein death beneath frMKprl the 'dead hung of Bodies r lier" f from the broken winddw" Clarence Heberer of Alameda Califs hdad steward in the dining tirrtrlr C - ' - K- n Fatal to i 1 48 - nt '' : Ccfeialniasli lilt saiaiiie :: car J " "Providence must have oeen w nn me he said Heberer and student steward ntio tit Tinrtali also of Alameda navy praised Work of 4rmy and ward men attached to two hospital cars which were in ithe passenger TVv a train andi were unaamageuJ " a pc military aid men did a "bang-upjob Heberer said Relief Trains Outfitted ichan rriiuc nf the wrfrk Tpachcd I Continued From Page nllmi' iiuut carj ore efi ihp dinftr onlv minutes be fore the impact to go to another AtPiilrliP Aiin i j auiu iwu OneV In a sirlingbattle above an American Airfield in Belgium s and Some 50 Messerschmitt-109Focke Wulfs attacked the field and ' were iet by American fighter defenses which knocked down all buU-1of 'the attack group The-- succession of enemy attacks trains with "physic bgden' relief flank of the ians against the northern nurses were ouuiuea aim and not the affected army by Seyenh news scene Meanwhile in blackout on the sent to theRed 36hoi4r Cross disaster serv-- w the Luxembourg-Belgia- n front started Ogden was - mobilized nurses' aides late yesterday summoned to report to the hosSeventh Army Hit and trucks and other transpitals to the ' facilities dispatched ' A battalion of Germans hit the port r receive and dead the ta station Seventh army line at Bannsteln the injured five niilcs southeast of Bitche From the army and navy installaA force of equaj strength lashed tions came'' officers and men and out south' of Dambach six miles Hmbulances rmmprnns east of: Bannstein and three miles that attachedto the It happened short 0f the German frontier A thrrd httack was mounted two miles west of Dambach and two others West of Bitche At the same time enemy patrol activity flared up In the woods near Biindenthal two miles inside the German Palatinate and northwest or Wissembqurg 'Yet other German forces were nrnhinr4 tho t'rpnrli Virf urmv no sitions due west of Colar below w Mrasbofirg Ther was little change in g enteral positions in the - battle of the Luxembourg-Belgia- n bulge ' 7 first section of the limited train were two hospital cars with staffs and equipment arid supplies These cars were undamaged in the wreck So these cars were filled with the njured the undamaeed part of the rirct train nac lltlhftrtked from the HmacH sprtion and' the undam aged train was started on us west' ward journey Hence far- fewer mjuiea were brought - to Ogden than was ex pected Tha AtsA instead : arrived In greater numbers than! the inju'fe'd Identification Slow There followed then tne xiismai tact nt id Antifvln s the dead so that correct answers couldj be given to the numerous calls coming trom all parts of the nation for information about 'loved ones known to J be on the train Dead lay unidentified m ugoen in-la- ' Son YJattftH A fcvi a Move 4 u 4f qlr kvuviv efrn vvkwi£ v forced northeast between Bastogne and StI Hubert moved up about 11 mile front in two miles along its firs 12 hours after the push ' ntf nt jmirfHatr Kntiirrtflv The 4dvance was continuing but Its extent was not disclosed - i j f Bastogne ' "Had it not been for their II ia3iKe e Jt or some ef- 1 2 l : Plus Tax ' Down C5 a Month - - Famous Dorothy Gray night Crrara— so very softening for drjr flaky skin ! 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Mrs Gert(j chest injuries a' telescoped 'at ast three -Nev f racige A Walker Sparks of the VTJ u it wa vll care oeing jumwir Georg£red spine to tell whicn car Deiongeaio wni-traiWalker Sparks Nev The track was completes Charle'f Thor wprr also four or jnve Injuries fV Walkrr Sparks Nev Carmefd t rmind coaches' sprawled over the double re at least three: SPSto""" Lf Walker track" he said "and the rocky bank and into down S 1Cnrticc personnel: water of Great Salt Lake Plum Bt lfaTph E RidUhoovejr snlashcs asainst the rocky it S 2CJmih S C- leg fractures One etigine was almost-cofill 5 Mon- Charles J Hartwig Route ilJSlvUB paaaKii&-- i pleteiy Ufatuy FC were on handA leg fracture trails "Resdue Albrecht 63VC 3012 if William- E said an4 there lare 'scores NJ orrest avenue Lyndhurst he peppie milling J around the wreck Actually were priced from 14950 to 19900lelLut are an an(j some grouped at this one clearance price Only six of servfce at a frac juist slightly soiled but will give years if cost Act quickly yoiji ee a new tipn of their original ' i Hm xSS H TWICE asi much for your money! - Ordinarily a iPullman standard sleeping car from Salt Lake City to San Francisco which is attached tn WpctHminrl train Nn 91 at n- den is filled to capacity Te car oai juajce uiy and was picked jeii her up by the train which was wrecked shortly afterwards on the causeway leading to the Great Salt w :Trom tlie air the racunj looked Francisco sn Arthur ' biuries Milwaukee fSin: AM Pill? vsr wk mnrm la Plus Tax Light Load Carried By Wrecked Pullniaii i lll - t REG Vi " Le w w is back and iegk I k Captain Reports113 ' pas-'seng- cr -- -- ' j Lorene ScF in uti"— D leg fract- utlndall Mrs Wil tCity burns Seamaf- Salt w - -- Thfi hird'nrmv hftwiVtr wa runninfj into considerably stiffenedGerman" defenses as Von Rundstedt spiffed his forces to meet new thrsaf Rpvprinff iha raif of the pulge might trap three to live vermaii cuvimuhs wcsii oi body- — — — fordry Patton east- - tranrfioS Cal Ve1 slightly t -- The injuries unkn T®ferfeiFJ? ch the-eaSt i officials said t— — lasU car of the passenger section A combination steel and wood day-coathree cars from the end was turned into a shambles oT twisted steel splintered wood and ' torn bodies It was in the daycoach that the crudest tragedy occurred The lives of a family of four and two — returning to their Nevada homes after a gala Christmas vacation injOgden — were snuffed out These dead were reported as Mr and Mrs LeRoy Porter of Sparks Nev their two daughters Peggy 14 and Mary 8 and Jack and Del-ph- a Francis brother and silster-in-lao'f Mrs Porter Mr and Mrs Francis were from Carlin Nev The engine and 10 of the train's 18 cars were undamaged and proceeded west to complete its Chicago— San Francisco run as soon as the injured were treated and placed aboard Mrdical Corps Heroes Medical corps detachments assigned to the army hospital cars were declared the heroes of the - ! Train Wreck fected - mortuaries today1 Names of some military personnel killed in the collision were withheld pending notification of next of kin Greatest carnage occurred in the - -- ( J i Mrs B J 18-c- ar LLX — — ed minor lnjurlet I iiii Dial 5775 2265 Washington Blvd 1 CS s — '" 'v |