WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	Father of train victims grieves, Wants to take bodies back to Ecuador (Trumbull-WTNH) _ The father of the family killed by an Amtrak train earlier this week is on his way to Connecticut. Carlos Urgiles' wife and four sons were struck while they were walking along the tracks in the middle of the night. Funeral arrangements are being made for the family here in Connecticut but those plans may change. Urgiles wants to take the bodies back to their native land of Ecuador. News Channel 8's Jocelyn Sigue reports. Carlos Urgiles is expected to arrive at JFK airport in New York at 9:00 tonight, and we understand he has an offer for a free ride for himself and the bodies of his wife and four boys. He would like to bury them in Ecuador. However, he must first discuss that with the sister of Julia Toledo. Funeral arrangements are currently planned for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Trumbull. Flags were flying at half-staff again at Luis Muñoz Marin school, where three of the boys who were killed attended. Staffers notified parents of funeral plans for eleven-year-old Carlos, ten-year-old Jose, Six-year-old Angel, their baby brother Pedro, age three, and their mother. More flowers and a candle are at the Bridgeport apartment where the family called home. Meantime, the organs of Jose may already be saving other lives. They were harvested at Bridgeport Hospital, and taken to patients in need last night. The New England Organ bank would not say where the organs were going, but that they should have been on the operating table this morning. A wake will be held Sunday night from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The funeral is scheduled to be held at the church Monday at 9:00 am, and the burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Easton. But these plans could change if Urgiles takes the bodies back to Ecuador. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Father of train victims grieves, Wants to take bodies back to Ecuador
(Trumbull-WTNH) _ The father of the family killed by an Amtrak train earlier this week is on his way to Connecticut. Carlos Urgiles' wife and four sons were struck while they were walking along the tracks in the middle of the night. Funeral arrangements are being made for the family here in Connecticut but those plans may change. Urgiles wants to take the bodies back to their native land of Ecuador.
News Channel 8's Jocelyn Sigue reports.

Carlos Urgiles is expected to arrive at JFK airport in New York at 9:00 tonight, and we understand he has an offer for a free ride for himself and the bodies of his wife and four boys. He would like to bury them in Ecuador. However, he must first discuss that with the sister of Julia Toledo.

Funeral arrangements are currently planned for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Trumbull.

Flags were flying at half-staff again at Luis Muñoz Marin school, where three of the boys who were killed attended. Staffers notified parents of funeral plans for eleven-year-old Carlos, ten-year-old Jose, Six-year-old Angel, their baby brother Pedro, age three, and their mother.

More flowers and a candle are at the Bridgeport apartment where the family called home.

Meantime, the organs of Jose may already be saving other lives. They were harvested at Bridgeport Hospital, and taken to patients in need last night. The New England Organ bank would not say where the organs were going, but that they should have been on the operating table this morning.

A wake will be held Sunday night from 6:00-9:00 pm at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The funeral is scheduled to be held at the church Monday at 9:00 am, and the burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Easton. But these plans could change if Urgiles takes the bodies back to Ecuador.

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