Show auk crash kilim ea U near delle v e AM TE 4 4 A AW i t VO 4 71 1 4 IP aft I 1 f ia if this car carrying 6 ers overturned several times ct at er failing to negotiate a turn at delle utah and brought death to five live last ast sunday morning the sixth victim is in the tooele thoele gen eral hospital in critical condition tate gillette ambulance crew is shown removing the tha bodies of some of the victims in the picture above photo by macgregor one of the worst highway tragedies in the state involving a single vehicle occurred sunday at 9 45 a m on U S highway 40 50 about 25 miles west of grantsville Grants ville when a 1940 model club convertible coupe failed to negotiate a curve at delle the car carried six passengers five of whom were killed in the crash and the sixth is in critical condition at tooele thoele general hospital the dead were charles calvin johnson 22 wayne buchert 29 hope merrl morrl morrison son 17 harvey R bol jolle ohe 23 ramona jioie li hackwell ackwell 18 all of salt lake city seriously injured julia galyan 19 also of salt lake city was taken by tate gillette ambulance to the tooele thoele hospital suffering head chest and other injuries she was still un con tuesday although a slight improvement had been marked according to dr J L mayo tooele thoele county sheriff C A hymas deputy fa fay y gillette and trooper roy hansen highway patrol inv investigated esti gated the accident an eye gitil witness ess of the fatal crash was riley T kelley bus driver for pacific grech greyhound aund lines who had stopped at delle shortly before the accident he r realized the car would not make the curve at the estimated rate of speed they were trav elling 75 miles an hour but there was nothing to be done the car left the road rolled over several times and came to a stop feet from where it left the highway completely demolished and the top torn all six passengers were hurled out apparently four killed instantly and a fifth died soon after according to reports the six victims were returning to salt lake city from wendover the car was registered as belong to charles johnson there was no indication as to who was driving the car |