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Show FUNERAL FOR WRECK VICTIMS WILL BE HELD IN LOGAN TABERNACLE Band Leader Guy B. Alexander and Sergeant Claytor P. Preston bodies Arrived Here Last Night. Club Officials Of-ficials are Arranging for Double Funeral. The remains of Guy B. "Alexander and Claytor P. Preston arrived ar-rived In Logan Inst evening over tho Oregon Short Line, with Leo Hansen, of this city, and a member of the Forty-Second Infantry Band accompanying the bodies. The wreck In which tho abovo Logan boys were killed and In which Lewis Edwards, Ros Carlson, and Leo Tarbot, wero badly Injured, In-jured, Is said to have been caused by a flagman falling to do his duty. -The third section of the troop train ran Into tho second section, killing three nnd injuring about fifteen others. It appears that the Logan boys wero In the rear coach of the second section at the time of tho collision. The Booster Club officials have laid plans to hold the funeral on Friday in tho Logan Tabernacle. A committee will bo appointed to decorate the building. Both caskets will probably be placed on a decorated truck. Tho Logan Military Band wilt take part In tho services, which wll be handled by the club, the city, the stake and the colleges. GAVK THEIIt LIVES FOH TUEIIl COUNTRY While all that was mortal of Guy B. Alexander and Claytor P. Preston, was being borne to tho homes they left such a short time ago, the verdict that fell from thousands of lips was that they "died for their country." From the fact that their lives were suddenly sud-denly snuffed out In a railroad wreck while enroute'to a military camp, they aro entitled to just as much honor as if they had died on the field of battle. Now that&wo are really in the war, no ono can toll one day what the wires 61 tho next day will bring, but' ono thing Is certain, we must be prepared for horrors and sacrifices that will harrow up and shock our Inmost souls. In making our first sacrifice, and giving tho lives of those two young men fcr our country, the community can rest assured that It has given two of the flower of Its youth. "Death loves a shining mark," and In taking Guy B. Alexander and Claytor Preston, It claimed two of the brightest andliest in the company that answered the country's call from Logan. Mr. Alexander was not a native son of Logan, but during hl3 stay with us he won our hearts, and his ways and methods so harmonized har-monized with ours that he seemed to bo ono of our own. In the household of Bishop B. G. Thatcher he was looked upon as ono of tho family, and his manly ways and straightforward course won for him a stainless name in tho community. His ability as a loader, together with his marked musical attainments, havo many times charmed and entertained us, and wo all looked forward to tho enviable en-viable record he would make on tho fields of Fraace. Death has cut his record short, but at a time when it is good nnd at its very zenith. His wife and loved ones can rest securo that In this trying ordeal they havo made the maximum of sacrlflco for their country, Claytor P. Proston was born In Logan ,and has spent his young life in our midst. Tho entire community knows him, and as It acquiesced and applauded him in his rosolvo to do service for his country, so it now honors, and will ever revere his memory as one of tho gallant defenders of our country's flag. He went to his death bearing the unsullied namo of one of the founders of this city and this state. A namo that has known hardship and sacrifice, that believed in tho equality of men, and in the divine destiny of the nation over which floats tho Stars and Stripes. No greater privilege could havo been accorded tho noblo grandslre, and respected re-spected father of this young man than to mako such a sacrifice for such a causo. Mortals will murmur because they aro not hero to join in tho obsequies, but wo little know what joy and happiness Is in progress at the mooting on thtf other sldo. There wo havo an " abiding faith that all is well, and thus we aro Impelled to make ready for the summons which will surely overtako all of us. For the little mother, in a darkened room, behind closed doors, stricken with grief at tho loss of her son, our very hearts bleed. It would seem that sho has had enough of trouble and sacrlflco. It It wero possible to shift tho burden, sho would find willing hands to relievo her, but that is not God's way. God knows who can stand these things, and bo "sends us no troubles that havo not somo euro." Mortals can only guess at what God knows. Ho knows just what each and every ono of us can stand, tho sacrifices we can mako, and In visiting sorrow and affliction upon us wo can rest assured that ho makes no mistakes. Hard as It sooms at tho time, In tho end tho unanimous verdict will be, "God knows host." Tho young widows who mourn tho loss of theso young men can rest assured that boys never did, nor nover will, give thoir lives for a nobler and more just causo. That for which they dlod Is enduring, it has ltberatod thousands, and is tho hopo and tho promise of tho millions still enslaved. Undor God tho present conflict con-flict will not coaso until it haa accomplished Its purpose. Only that thing which is right can onduro, and tho great conflict to hurl wrong from tho throne, and rescue right from tho scaffolds of tho world is now on. All honor to tho patriots, Guy I). Aloxander, Claytor P. Preston and Frod T. Whltohouse, throe gallant soldiers who gave thoir lives to such a worthy causo: "These shall resist tho omplro of decay, When tlmo is o'er and worlds bare passed away, Cold in tho dust the chorlshed heart tnay Uty But that which warmed It once mb saVer-A!," |
