Evening star., 1934-02-26
EIGHT FOUND DEAD
IN WRECKED PLANE
Transport Plunged Into
SnoW-Covered Pass in
Utah Mountains.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, February 26.--I
The wrecking of giant United Air
line transport last Friday was so swift
and sudden. line officials said <today,
that the eight persons who died never
knew what happened.
The plane fell vertically like great
ball of steel, and struck the ground
with such force that the engine was
imbedded in the ground up to the
cabin.
'All the bodies were pushed for
ward" said Leon Cuddeback, assist
ant to Chief Pilot H. T. Lewis Of
United Airlines. THE ship did not
move after it struck the ground
There was no evidence of fire. Death
must have been instantaneous to all"
The dead:
Miss Mary Carter. stewardess. for
merly Of Omaha and Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Lloyd Anderson. Cheyenne, pilot
Eric c. Danielson, Cheyenne, CO.
pilot.
J. j. Sterling, mayor of Benton
Harbor, Mich.
Marcellus Zinsmaster, Des Moines,
Iowa
Evald w. Berglund, Boone, Iowa.
Bert Mclaughlin, Perry, Iowa
E. L. Walker. Rock Springs. Wyo.
Missing Since Friday.
Missing since last Friday shortly
after it had taken off here for Chey-
enne with five passengers and a crew
of three, the transport was found
wrecked in a Snow-covered pass 20
miles east of here. The wreckage
was sighted at dusk yesterday by
searching plane.
A rescue party of company OFF,
cialS which reached the scene through
deep snow two hours later found the
managled bodies of the two pilots
and the five passengers thrust into
the forward end of the plane and
imprisoned by wreckage.
Only the body of the stewardess.
Miss Carter, was intact. 1t lay on
top of those of the others. Identifica-
ton was possible only by jewelry and
clothing.
Except for the wings, which were
cracked, virtually every part of the
craft was smashed The tail hung
drunkenly like boys broken kite.
Taken to Salt Lake City.
Several hours were required to ex-
tricate the bodies from the wreckage.
They we're carried miles to the
Lincoln Highway, where ambulances
brought them to this city. The nose
of the plane had to be dug from the
ground before baggage and express
could be removed from the forward
compartment.
Judge John C. Green. coroner of
Summit County. a member of the
rescue party, said it was apparent that
all the passengers and crew had died
instantly. He said none of them
seemed to have moved after the plane
struck.
The plane was sighted by Pilots
Don Broughton and Creighton H.
Geer, who were about to return to the
airport here for more fuel. Broughton
signaled the find to other flyers, and
returned to the airfield TO lead a
PAL ~ VI O1LSldlo W LlAC NpOI
ManeuverS Of the searching planes
had been noted by a party of skiers
nearby, who located the wrecked ship
and advised the airline officials of
its exact whereabouts.
The giant low-wing twin-motor
liner, one of the latest developments
in aircraft, went to its end within a
mile of the airway's beacon that shows
the way through Parleys Canyon,
main air and land artery from Salt
Lake Valley to the East. But the
beacon was obscured by heavy snow
storm which swept the Wasatch
Mountains shortly before its approach,
and by heavy clouds that trailed for
a mile below
1t had cleared the summit of the
pass. and wrecked itself about three
quarters of a mile below on the east
ward SlODe