Show salt laker born in tooele thoele county killed on highway dark clark lewis baker aged 47 years year s of 49 robert ave south salt lake city was fatally injured in an auto pedestrian accident at 2400 S state monday evening at 9 20 a in mr baker was born in mer cur tooele thoele county on june 15 1900 a son of clark M and came carrie peterson baker he had been em aloyed at the salt lake tribune for the past 19 years according to the report mr baker was crossing state street when struck by a north bound car which knocked him rods he was dead upon arrival at the hospital he is survived by his widow mrs delila C baker a daughter mavis baker and a brother morris baker of bakersfield california funeral arrangements were to be announce ed from murray in connection with this accident the salt lake tribune on tuesday summarized the road deaths in 1947 stating that the total deaths for the first half of 1947 stood at 79 which was 10 under the same per od in 1946 it was also said that the darkest picture this year is in davis county where 15 deaths have been recorded as compared with 7 in 1946 salt lake county with 13 deaths compared to 8 in 1946 while tooele thoele county has 6 deaths this year compared with 2 for 1946 |