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Show AUTO-TRAIN CRASH KILLS HYRUM MAN Harold Nordick Victim Of Fatal Accident Funeral services for Harold Nordick, Nor-dick, 25, resident of Hyrum since 1940, who died Sunday at 8:35 p. m. in a Logan hospital of a badly fractured skull received about two hours earlier when his stalled automobile au-tomobile was struck by a Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Central Railroad passenger train on a crossing about one-mile one-mile west of Hyrum, were conducted con-ducted this" afternoon in the Hyrum Hy-rum Third ward chapel. Mr. Nordick's wife end three small children, who were paosen- gers in the small coupe, miraculously miracu-lously escaped serious injury. According to a story pieced together to-gether by family members and those who arrived shorlty after the accident, Mr. Nordick was crossing the railroad tracks to drive into an alfalfa field to irrigate. ir-rigate. The engine of 'his 1930 model coupe stalled and he was unable to get out of the car before the train struck. The accident occurred oc-curred at ,6:27 p. m. . Mrs. Nordick, 27, who heard the train's whistle, jumped from the - car and dragged one of the child ren with her, but in the confusion she was unable to tell which child it was. Donald, 2, who apparently stayed stay-ed in the automobile, was the most seriously injured. He received a bad laceration of the ear and neck and cuts and bruises about the head. Shirlene, 6, also received head lacerations, while !Lee, 4, es-L es-L caped with minor cuts and bruises. bruis-es. Mr. Nordick was treated by Dr. v . J. Paul Burgess, Hyrum, before he was rushed to the Cache ley hospital by the Logan-t. .6 fire department ambulance. ;!He died without regaining consciousness. conscious-ness. The children were given medical tr-Kifcnent ir. Hyrum. . D. W. Jones, 2539 Grarnmercy street, Ogden, motorman of the two-car passenger train, said. '"The train was coming around the (Continued on page Three) |