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Show :' : ,' Child Is Crushed Under Racking Cm Fred Ferguson Is Killed In Salt Lake Crash, Spring-dale Girl Meets Death When : 10-Ton Truck Hits ller ; Three Utahns, two of them Trovo persons, met death i -automobile accidents Tuesday. Myrtle Jean Stanton, 18-month-old daughter of Goorp- r and Beatrice Prue Stanton, 330 East Fifth South, Provo wa I ' killed at 8:20 p.,m. when she ran in the path of a backii.,1 i&r operated by Miss Edith Curtis of Cast!- Gate Mr T'm' Fe?gu,8.on' 29' living at Salt Lake, and a son o rtl'J p ' M Ferguson of 050 East Second Soutl stieet Provo, was fatally injured when the car in which h. -was riding crashed into the rear of another machine. Tllc Stanton child died less thai 10 minutes after the acciden which occurred in the drivewa' near the home of Mrs. ItuKm M I Snow, 149 South Fifth Fast, Prove:' where Miss Curtis lias been visit '"g- . ! I'laying linhind Shed i ; The child evidently had beci r " playing behind a shed near tin.;' driveway and stumbled into thu 1 path of the bucking car. Both,1 I wheels on the right side of the oar '' passed over the child's body. Mis.i' 'i Jurtis was- unaware of the acei- !! dent until the machine was a car 1 length from the child's body. 1 ' Frank Crandall, who was at- '. ' traded to the ::pot, assisted in car- ,'i rying the baby into the Prue home '' j where the mother had been living ' ' Dr. David Weslwuod' who was 1 called, pronounce.' the baby dead.' Miss Curlis, as well a3 the child's I ' mother and grandparents, wan prostrated with grief over the sad .1 ' mishap. Ferguson was killed when the '.' -ar in which he was riding with! ' Jack Corless, 21, son of former' I ' Sheriff John .S. Corless, crashed ' ' into the rear of another machine. : ' i -or,CS3 was driving. They were ' J accompanied by a parLy of Eh.Is I "lice today were seeking two i i girl occnpanla of the machine who ' were reported to have jumped from ! j the rumble seat and fled after the ' crash. .1 . Ferguson war, rushed lo the emergency hospital but was pro- ; nounced dead on his arrival. T 1 ' ol the girl occupants were treated , , 1 for severe lacerations and bruises 3 Young Corless was uninjured ' Horn In JTovo Ferguson was born in p,.ovo February S, 1M02 ond attended the local schools including lhe B Y u i He left P,-ovo several years ago 1 and worked as a timekeeper at ar, ' lily mine. Several moiilhs aim he 1 came lo Kali. Lake in search of work. He was unmarried. j He lost his arm several years ! ago when a sholgin, exploded acei- : dentally 03 ,,e was crawling tni'oui'h a fence, while hunting ! .Surviving are his parents, James ' and M-"'i;i Strong J.'erguson- ' i and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Alii-ander, Alii-ander, Provo, and Mrs. E J Arch- 1 bold, Seattle, Washington. The Stanton child was born in n Des Moines, Iowa, January 1 I Survivinfj besides the parents, arc the grandpa rents. Mr. and Mrs W. M. P,-e, J30 Kast Filth Soul h. Funeral services will be held Thursday a 12:30 o'clock at the Prue home, .'i.'in k, i,.:m, , - ,, oulllM s-reet. I;,s-,op Waller Whitehead of the First wurd wil) 1Jro;.ilie Hie boy may be viewed at the home prior to lhe services Inter ment will be i the Provo city cemetery. A similar accident caused the death here Inst year of a daughler ot Alark Anderson, manager of tl, Roberts hotel. In the third fatality of , (J m Utah. Clinc Clifford, 4, of Spring-dale Spring-dale nta,. Zion N.,tio,,al park was killed when she was struck by a ten-ton truck. The driver, Loren.o MacGregor, formier ."!" student, said the child ran from the roadside road-side into the side of the machine which was towing an oil trailer l ie accident happened near the city limits of Springdnle. |