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Show ' Vl 'iff ft ' kL . v A - - ; V v f L :1 .-t - Patrolman Melvin W. Grant and Police Chief Leo Van Wagoner look upon the remains of a new GMC pickup truck after it was hit by a freight train east of American Fork. The accident claimed the life of Ralph Rcminger, who was driving the truck. American Fork Man Killed in Train Truck Crash i An American Fork father was killed instantly Tuesday at II a. m. when he apparently backed his pickup truck into the path of an onrushing freight train, while a ycung son and a neighbor witnessed wit-nessed the fatal accident. Dead is Ralph Rominger, 38, proprietor of Rominger and Son Grocery and Coal company en .East State road. The mishap occured on a private grade crossing cross-ing as Mr. Rominger was backing back-ing from the yard of his father's residence. The train, traveling at an estimated speed of 32 m p ih. struck the truck near the left !ie?r .vheel. spun it around, and pitched it 20 feet north of the right of way. Mr. Rominger was thrown 70 : ft. from the truck, investigating officers said. The train was a local freight of the Union Pacific and was southbound to Provo. The enginemen aboard the train stated they did not see the truck until they were within about 18 feet of striking it. A 11-year old son, Martin, witnessed wit-nessed the accident from the lawn of his grandfather's home and a neighbor, James R. Larra-bee, Larra-bee, was standing in his yard across the highway when the accident ac-cident occurred. Mr. Rominger was born April 5. 1912, in Garfield, a son of Martin E. and Bessie Venable Rominger. He moved with his family to American Fork in 1920, where he Ms resided since. He graduated from the local high school and then entered the coal nr.d grocery business with his I father. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints and of the Squaw Peak chapter, International j Footprint Assn. , Surviving are his widow, Dorothy Doro-thy Merkley Rominger, whom he married Feb. 15, 1935, two sons, Martin William, 11, and Connie Gene, 7, his parents, all of American Amer-ican Fork; two children by a previous marriage, Claude Rom-ingtr Rom-ingtr and Joye Rominger Hop-kinscn, Hop-kinscn, both of Provo, and two j sisters, Mrs. Frank (Helen) Mad-isrn, Mad-isrn, and Mrs. Almon (Frances) Bane, Byron, Wyo. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted in the First ward chape Friday at 3 p. m. Friends ma; call at the family home on the 1 East State Road from 10 a. m 'until time of services. |