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Show VAUGHN THOMPSON DIES OF INJURIES Youth's Long Fall From Derrick at the Hanchctt Pump Well Proves Fatal. Last Tuesday morning Vaughn Thompson, the fifteen-year-old son of C. A. Thompson of tho Dixie Power Company, was fatally hurt when ho fell twenty-five feet off a dorrick at the Hanchctt well on Ccdnr Bottoms. Falling on his hend, tho lad fractured his skull. Ho was rushed to a Salt Lako hospital immediately where nn operation lifted and put in pluco tho bones of the skull, but tho victim died without regaining consciousness. Funeral services were held at tho liome of Mr. Thompson on Rlvcrsido Drive, Salt Lako City. Tho bereaved father, is tho manager of tho Cedar City office of tho Dixie Power company com-pany and is well known in Iron and) Washington counties. |