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Show Berlin Bluhm Dies of Injuries Machine Hits Freight Train at Crossing-; Three Others Injured Berlin Bluhm, 22, of Moroni, died at G p. m. Sunday at his home ol injuries suffered when his automobile automo-bile crashed into a standing D. Si R. G. W. freight train on Main and Fifth West streets Saturday night. His skulll and four ribs were fractured. Mr. Bluhm never regained consciousness. John Joiley, 20, of Moroni; Beth Beckstrom, 17, and May Wilcox, 17, both of Mt. Pleasant, also suffered injuries. They were passengers in Bluhm's machine. The young people had attended a dance in Mt. Pleasant and were enroute to Moroni to attend another an-other when the crash occurred. Frost on the windshield was said to have obscured the driver's vision. The freight train, run as an extra ex-tra between Manti and Thistle, had ;ust pulled into the station. Miss Wilcox suffered internal injuries, in-juries, cuts and bruises. She is the daughter of Mrs. Webly Wilcox. Miss Beckstrom, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Beckstrom, and Joiley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Joiley, suffered cuts and bruises. The injured were taken . to the home of A. F. Rasmussen after the accident, where 'their injuries were dressed by Drs. W. M. Thome, VV. P. Winters, P. L. Holman of Mt. Pleasant and H. E. Dice of Moroni, all three being called in. All were removed to their homes except Bluhm, who remained at the Rasmussen home until Sunday morning, when he was removed to the Dice hospital at Moroni. The car, a coupe, was completely demolished. Bluhm is survived by his. father, Andrais Bluhm, who was injured in an automobile accident three weeks agg; his motner, Mrs. Mary Eluhm Greco; a half-brother, Monroe Mon-roe Wilkinson; a sister, Miss Regma Bluhm, and two brothers, Henry and Theodore Bluhm. |