The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-16
T. J. LOFTS and George W. Nc
Aleer Are Tenderly Laid
at Rest.
VICTIMS OF WRECK ON
DENVER & RIO GRANDE
Large ConcOurse Gathers to
Pay Respects to Memory of
the Departed.

Touching indeed were the funerals of
the two Denver & Rio Grande engineers,
Thomas Jefferson LOFTS and George w.
McAleer, who were killed in the freight
wreck at divers siding, twenty miles
south of Salt Lake City, Wednesday
morning, shortly after clock, which
took place Sunday afternoon.
Hundreds of sorrowing relatives and
friends gathered TO pay a last tribute
to the men, who, through a slight er.
ror, had given mp their lives at their
posts OF duty.
In steady downpour Of rain, many
went to the cemetery to see their
friends and comrades laid in their final
resting places.
tis took place from the Masonic Tenn
pie, at First South and Second East
streets, at ! clock, the chapel OF the
temple being crowded to the doors.
Mr. LOFTS was well-known Mason
and the Masonic ritual was read by
Grand Master W. e. Howard, assisted
by other members Of Argeuta lodge, of
which the dead man was a member.
Rev. Mr.. Helmick Talks.
The members Of the Masonic order
were assisted in the service by Rev.
Daniel NJ. Helmick, pastor of Tiff NJ.
L. church, chaplain of the Argenta
lodge, who gavo Il fitting eulogy, and
Rev. Louis S. Bowerman, pastor Of the
set eh NIB
prayer, The quartetto from the East
Side Baptist church gave the selections,
"Nearer Ny God to Thee" and "My
Jesus as Wilt
Relatives were taken 20 the grave in
Mt. Olivet cemetery in carriages. while
brother engineers and Masons were con
Yeyed to the cemetery In three special
electric cars, drapcd with black crepe.
At the grave the Masonic service was
given
The pallbenrers at the funeral were all
brother Masons and also members of the
Brotherhood OF Railroad Engineers. Tho
men to bear the body of their dead
friend were G. q, Shermer, II. W. An
derson. C. f. Ives, Edward Copnor, J..
I. Beless and j. G, Bywater.
The funeral was in charge of Under
taker Eber W. Hall, and in order to
protect the people from the rain and
snow which was falling. be had large
tent erected close NV the grave.
Engineer McAleer' Funeral.
The funeral Of George w. McAleer
took place at 5 clock from the funeral
chapel of O'DoDnoll 6 Co., and was so
largely attended that many could not
gain admlttauce.
Following out a request of Mrs. Nc
Alccr, j. G. Bywatcr, chief of the Broth
erhood OF Railroad Engineers, gave 3
short testimonial talk, telling Of the life
of the dead man as known to his fellow
workmcn, and giving words of condol
ence to sorrowing relatives and friends.
The officiating clergyman was the
Rev Peter \, SlmpliiD, pastor of the
Phillips Congregational church, who
also pronounced short eulogy and eH-
pressed sympathy for those left behind.
There was singing by a selected quar-
tcttc, IN charge of Miss Nora Gleason,
To show the love and respect that Mr.,
McAleer always expressed for his native
state, Maryland, an orchestra was pres
cnt, and as the body was borne from
the chapel it gave the selection "Mary-
land, Ny Maryland. "
Two funeral cars and many carriages
carried relatives and friends to the
grave in Mt Olivet cemetery, whero
burial took place. The pallbearcrs were
Thomas LamPlugh Edward Piper,
Charles Dickerman, j. A, DAILY and Z. O.
II. Johnson,
At both funerals many floral tributes
were placed upon the caskets.