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Show SALT LAKE MAN KILLED BY A STREET CAR Salt Lake, Sept. 17. J. C. Ondor-donk, Ondor-donk, a solicitor for tho Petaluma Woekly Poultry Journal of Petaluma, Cal., was struck and almost instantly instant-ly killed by a westbound Sucond South street car at. about 12:30 o'clock this morning. According to witnesses of tho accldeut, the man started to cross the track on the west side of tho crossing at Second East and Second South streets, and stopped directly In front of the car. He seemed to bo dazed and did not look up as the car rushed upon him. Ho was struck on the left temple and hlB skull fractured. fractur-ed. The body was thrown clear of the tracks and not mutilated. Dr. H. Lynch of tho city health department, de-partment, "who Hvcb at 3-11 South Fourth East street, waa at the hospital hos-pital hood after tho accident, but said, tlio man probably died a few seconda after ho was struck. "I was sitting In the car and saw the man "walk aimlessly right lu front of the car" said W H PcrMns.. hea ' machinist f r the Tribune Publishing company. "I was .coing down town j and looked ahead as one will. We were going at a pretty good rate when I the man was struck, although the mo-j mo-j torman seemed 10 iIt all he could to fctop the, car. We were so close to him before he stepped onto the track that there was no chance to stop the car. I believe that the men in charge of the car arc absolutely blameless and that the accident was unavoidable. unavoid-able. The man seemed to he dazed nnd walked right In front of the car when it was too close to him to be stopped. "1 rushed to the Studebaker garage to telephone to the police, hut found a man there who was already telephoning. telephon-ing. Ho then said something about gettln? away, evidently to avoid being be-ing a witness, and I did not learn his name I have seen the man who was struck at different times about the city and think I had heard that he was a solicitor." |