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Show : . TITOS -JIT". '"47 !';. ! -a-" 3 f " tfS r " O I T T "el 3 1 "7" T -T- T , " O I T hc- bodies C- 17 pa::. e:r;.?rs v. I":o cia;;i.v.L in Cti-r vaut-y e.u'iy ';uc. tiay rao.T.ins, were &roasIt to Uio iao.anry CiLbiiaiia-enc la:3 ' XafciU:.y, a..d ii.e two injured pas- ' tnteri were being treated at lire Ii.;a r.Ooa.ial a-ier beiag brought ii.'.o wv.n iroja tire crash potnt by Dr. Ecicirngion shorily alter noon. Dr. Kddingten, viva Wiag, Fire Chief Thomas Powers aad Deputy Sheriit' Ivlorris Anderson and Frank Sharp, were among th? first local chizens to reach the scene of the fatal accident, which is southeast of Fairfield near the middle of Cedar valley. The plane crashed in the sparce sagebrush on the floor of the valley. val-ley. One wing was crumpled, the r.ose of the plane smashed and a gaparg hole opened in the fuselage, raid Mr. Powers. Fassengers' bodies were bruised and broken, but all but the pilot's were intact, Mr. Powers reports. The two passengers saved credited cred-ited their lives to the fact that they fastened their safety .belts when a jar was felt and the plane seemed to be exprienciag trouble. S'urvivois were: Lieutenant A. F. Gardner, 23, United States marine corps, who suffered fractured right leg. Robert Victor MaDett of Harney, Ore., who suffered a back injury and severe shock. Tire dead: lira. Leona Rosell, 125 Third East street, Salt Lake City, a buyer and department manager for Auer- j bach company. J. K. Eratt, 038 Third East street, Salt Lake City, Richard V. James, 2159 Preston street, Salt Lake City, a WAL employe. Knight Bennett, contractor, of Glendale, Cal. Fred Lewis, Los Angeles. W. O. Hart, Orange, Cal., owner of the Orange Daily News. Guy Talbot Jr., Great Falls, I Mont., WAL regional traffic manager. man-ager. Miss C. Wcersing, no address given, listed as a relative of WAL employes. Mrs. George Skylstead, Las Vegas, Nov., who had been visiting in Havre, Mont. i-l. H. Flultman, Missouri Valley, Iowa. D. E. Cummings, 42, Denver Colo., a member of the medical school itaff of the University of Colorado. Lieutenant T. A. Ealdwin, Omaha,'; Neb. Lieutenant H. E. McCrao, Denver. Captain Edward J. Loeffler, Glendale, Glen-dale, Cal., pilot. J. Clifton Lee, Burbank, Cal., copilot. Miss Cleo Booth, Glendale, Cal., stewardess. Douglas S'oule, St. Petersburg, Fla., a student copilot. The two injured men were taken from the wreckage by Lieutenant Casper Woolf of Provo, -a civilian air patrol pilot, who landed a light plane near the ill-fated ship shortly a iter noon Tuesday. Licutcrant Voolf said he tore the fuselage in order to enter the yla.ae and vcrcue the two men. He wrapped the injured men in blankets blan-kets and flow back to Fairfield to get an ambulance. Dr. Elmo Ed-ding! Ed-ding! on of Lehi returi-cd with the ambu'ance and took the injured raen to a Lehi hospital. The plane was first reported missing at 1:20 a. m. in flight re-tarn re-tarn from Salt Lake City to Los Angelas. It was sighted over the now Fairfield CAA station. Leaving the S-.H Lake airport at 1 :,'.: a. m.. the ship wars last heard rara i i a rontUie mes age as it aVaaal the fadd. A l.irge-srala searc'a was hiunch-I hiunch-I or'ad at dayli'.ht and Lieutenant J '.'.'ee'f made the first discovery a! j PraM n. m. The civil air patrol pilot j a- a -e.-i CAA officio's at the Salt I7"' 1 r.'rpo' and tai l of his find-ar.,1 find-ar.,1 warned against, attempt-! to i.md near Lne wreckage wath j a lavoa ship. j I.i.aa ona ar Ctaraaer, one cf the i injured men. said he retained con- ! .viotw-s at'. er the plane seemed to 'nave struel; so'.r.e object and an;.; an ir.a; ant after the final impact, , "It seemed as i: one of the wiags 1 hi; a crest of a mountain and ' abeat 30 or 41 seconds later we j crashed." Ire said. ' "I was knocked vse. conscious, but Van' v'a.on I came to. several of ;'. .e passer, rar.s socmed to be alive," ire continued. Loel people who visited the seene of the accident think that it ceu'.d have teen far rr.ourh we-t f - srrike a paik in '.re West moun-! moun-! '..'.v.' arrd tiam reaolr the point of i lire final crash. Some 13 nr:nu"es , e'.aysod torv.een the time of the i I crash and time of leaving the Salt ; : Lake airport, indicating that the : , n'ana srvd would be more than i ! ICO miles per hour. : ' Some interesting facta concerning the disaster are that the plane was |