OCR Text |
Show DEATH CLAIMS THIRD WRECK VICTIM Motorman Sherman of Ill-fated Rapid Transit Car Succumbs at Dee Hospital Ogden, July 10. John M. Sherman tho motorman of tho eastbound car In tho ranyon wreck died at tho Deo hospital at 12:20 o'clock this morning. morn-ing. Ho Is tho third victim of tho Fourth of July accident. Tho motor-man motor-man nevor fully recovered consciousness conscious-ness from tho time tho crush came. Ho had been delirious for ncariyhvo days, Sherman had both of his legs bro ken In tho nccldont and was also Injured In-jured Internally. Tho ofllclalB of the Rapid Transit company postponed iho Investigation Into tho causes of the wreck until a statement could bo obtained, ob-tained, It possible, from tho Injured motorman . Shorman was 18 years old and livid at 901 Grant avonuo. He has been u resident of Ogden for about 11) on 's and was employed by tho Ogden Rap Id Transit company for tnrro years. Ho Is sur'-lvod by n wife and nim children, six boys and three glrU. Tho death of Sherman removes nn' possibility of nn accurate statement of tho oxact causo of the accident Tho employes of tho company ox.uu-ned ox.uu-ned so far havo mado conflicting stntomonts ns to tho causo. Father GratUin, brothor of tho Injured In-jured D. & R. G. brakeman, arrived from Port Arthur, Texas, Bhortly after af-ter midnight last night. Ho was met at tho depot by Rev. P. M. Cushna-han Cushna-han and went Immediately to tho Deo hospital. Grattan's condition Is serious. Carl Wallln one of tho Injured In tho wrock, was ablo to leuvo tho hospital hos-pital yesterday. |