The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-02-26
STORM CLAIMS
8 AS SHIP HITS
CANYON WALL
Pilot Had CirCIed in Fog to
Head Back to Airport When
Craft Crashed

Of eight more lives today as the
rugged summit Of Parley's canyon,
20 miles east Of Salt Lake, gave
up the secret of the fate Of the
huge United Air Line transport,
missing since last Friday.
Huddled into the front end of
the all-metal airship were it's five
passengers and crew of three, all
dead-unquestionably killed in
stantly as the giant plane
plunged with terrific force into
the mountainside and buried it's
nose deep in the snow.
Bodies Badly Mangled
The bodies Of all seven men
were badly mangled. That Of
Mary Carter, pretty 24-year-old
etewardesS, was intact.
Seven bodies had been re-
moved from the wreckage early
Today.
The body Of co-pilot Danielson
% expected to be taken out later.
SnowShoeS, skis and sleds were
used by members of the rescue
parties that removed the bodies.
The Inflated air liner was
sighted at 5:21 Sunday afternoon
BY Pilot Don Broughton and CO.
pilot Creighton Geer, after a
truitless and hazardous air search
Of two days.
The dead:
LLOYD ANDERSON, 80, pilot,
Cheyenne. Wyo.
ERIC G. DANIELSON, 20, CO.
pilot. Cheyenne.
MISS MARY CARTER, "a,
SteWardess, Salt Lake City, form
erly Of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Passengers
j. J. STERLING, Mayor of Ben
ton Harbor, Mich.
MARCELLUS C''MIKEO I'm
MASTER, So, Des Moines, Iowa.
w. B. BERGLAND, IS, Boone,
Iowa.
BERT MCLAUGHLIN, Perry,
Iowa.
E. L. WALKER. Rock Springs,
Wyo.
Watch Times Wreck
The wrist watch of Miss Carter
and the position Of the wrecked
liner told the story of the ships
tragedy. The watch stopped at
1885 o'clock, IS minutes after the
plane roared out of the Salt Lake
airport eastbound for Cheyenne.
The nose of the ship was pointed
West, indicating that Pilot Ander-
son was heading back for the local
airport and safety when he
cracked up.
Experienced pilots explained
that the plane probably plunged
straight into the ground while
making a bank. Bewildered by
fog, they said, Pilot Anderson
nosed the liner into the side of
one of the highest peaks of the
WaSatch Mountains.
Three hours after the plane was
spotted by air searchers, ground
rescue crews were able to struggle
through five feet of snow and
rugged terrain to the scene of the
tragedy.
Official Statement
Leon E. Cuddeback, assistant
chief pilot of United Air Lines,
made the following official state
nent:
"The ship struck the ground
In a vertical position, but due to
darkness we were unable to de-
termine whether it hit some OBJ
ject before landing. The nose
Of the ship was imbedded in the
snow, pushing the passengers to
the front of the ship. The plane
was edged in between two trees
and evidence shows it struck
evenly along the edge of the
wings. The time of the acct
dent was not definitely de-
termined. When the clock of
the ship is uncovered it should
show the exact time of the
crash.
ut is expected that COPiIOt
DanielsOn'S body will be ex-
tracted later this morning. But
the bodies of the other seven
persons have been removed and
were brought to Salt Lake. The
bodies of the five passengers
and StewardeSS were easy to ex-
tract, but considerable difficulty
was encountered with the body
of the pilot and co-pilOt.
"The passengers we're killed
Immediately on impact of the
ship"
Face Many Obstacles
The ground rescue party fought
desperately against great obstacles
to remove the bodies from the
summit Holocaust, struggling foot
by foot through the deep snow,
aided by the light of flares.
The body of Miss Carter was
the first to be removed
Mr.. DanielSon's body was on the
bottom of the ship, wedged in
tightly.
Edgar A. Boring, jr., a skier, and
James Rasmussen, Canyon store
keeper, were the first to reach
the wrecked ship. They were at
tracted by Pilot Broughton'S plane
circling the area.
Within an hour roads leading
to the scene of the crash were
blocked by motorists and pedes-
trianS bent upon securing SOU.
VenirS from the plane.