Salt Lake City, Oct. 19.
Twenty persons were killed when an airliner belonging to the United Air Lines crashed about 50 miles east of Hayden Peak on Porcupine Range, the search party sent to locate the aeroplane reported to-day The disaster was the worst on record in American commercial aviation history. The United Air liner, which left Salt Lake City yesterday for San Francisco, where it was flying from Newark, New Jersey, was reported missing only 26 minutes after leaving the local airport.
It apparently ran into strong winds and a snowstorm, reported round the Rock Springs region where it was sighted yesterday by a rancher. It must have cracked when the pilot attempted a landing. The search party came upon the wreckage 50 miles east of Hayden Peak. The searchers beheld "a terrible sight. Eighteen bodies were hurled through a hole torn behind the cockpit, and were scattered for a radius of 100 feet in front of the wreck. They were all deeply buried in snow, only legs and arms protruding. The nineteenth person was jammed against the cockpit.
Although reported yesterday that there were sixteen passengers and three employees, there were actually seventeen passengers, Mrs, Helen Ferreira, who was speeding to San Francisco at the time of the crash, was due to give birth to a child. She was hurrying to San Francisco to be under the care of her uncle.
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