Show MIDNIGHT NARROWLY ESCAPE EATH DEATH D after the dance given saturday night by storms orchestra from grand junction colo two of the players took some roosevelt Koo sevelt girls girla tor for a joy ride that ended disastrously while returning to roosevelt the party must have approached the top of the ward dugway at a terrific speed instead of 0 taking the turn to the left the car rushed straight over the brow of the hill flying through the air thirty feet before again touching the ground then plunging down the hillside a considerable distance before being stopped by huge boulders in its alts path miss lavon smith was thrown from the car and rolled down the hill being badly bruised and cut in the decent madoline madeline gagon sustained a broken rib a sprained wrist and a gash in her tore fore head and was wag picked up lona iona barber sustained a bad cut clit on her head necessitating seven witches Itches i a badly cut lip and lost BO sev eral cral teeth she also suffered a ii rious loss ot of blood and Is perhaps fie most serious sufferer ot of all her iter marjorie Marj orle barber was also very 1 verely cut and bruised mr mitchell a traveling salesman irom from ogden who was driving the car iii stained a broken shoulder and internal injuries the member ot 0 the orchestra whose name we could not learn was badly cut and bruised about the head the car a stu ds dr baker was almost a total wreck the girls state that alter after the dance the men offered to take them home in their car but when they entered the car instead ot of taking them home they turned the car east and went in the direction of 0 whiterocks on the return they approached pro ached the dugway at high speed being at the top before they knew it realizing that it if they attempt ed to turn the car would roll over sidewise dewise sl so decided to go straight down the hill and try to keep the car on its wheels this probably saved their lives indeed it Is remarkable that no lives were lost the easy way in which boing girls can be persuaded to ride with strangers is shown by the tact fart that it has been practically impossible to learn th names f the he mea er r anything about them at last reports it is bel believe levei that tho the girls are progressing favorably the orchestra members left on b truck for or price the following day wendell pope and robert collier two young men from vernal were returning after the dance and found the driver at the toot of the dugway mr coller colier took him to roosevelt and secured aid for the remainder ma inder the injured man tainted fainted on the way in mr pope hurried to those at the wreck and did all he could there until help arrived no doubt but that their timely as aj fil si stance prevented much suffering to the injured as it is doubtful it if the injured could have secured aid sheriff late lafe richardson was called from vernal and was soon at the scene of 0 the accident |