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Show MM AT I TORfe crossing Richard Saunders, 45. Father of Three is Accident HELD IN SIDE CAR BY (i HIS CARPENTER TOOLS Companion Leaps to Safety When Engine Stalls EJpon Tracks Richard Saunders, (5 years of age. H a carpenter, 32.! Twenty-seventh street, H was killed at 8 o'clock this morning when a Washington avenue street car H I crashed Into the motorcycle and sld H car in which he was riding at the Thlr-I Thlr-I te-nth street crossing. I John Logan. 3.1 years of Age. 2353 Mdnroe avenue. w;i. operating the mo- J .tor. He leaped to safety a few mo- J mi nts before the street car struck. i Saunders seems to have been trapped J ln the side car by the tools he was H carrying on his lap He was Just ready to Jump when the crash came. J I He was crushed to siivh an extent that : death was instantaneous. DRAGGED xo FEET. The motorcycle and side car. together togeth-er with Saunders, were rolled by the ar for a distance of about 30 feet. When the street car halted, the man l was beneath the tangled mass tha,t wa- a motorcycle, with the front ; i rucks of the street car pinning the wreckage to the ground. Prank Salt ' 7 1 Llghth street, who 'was In the forward end of the street 'ar, said neither the street car nor the motorcycle was traveling at an excessive ex-cessive rate of speed STORY OF WITNESS, "I was lust w-alking to the front of 'he ear and saw the motorcycle turn ' Salt mated. When the motorcycle hit the railroad ties that made up the ! crossing, the machine stopped directly In front of the street car. The motor-man motor-man rang the bell and sounded the whistle, one of the men. the one running run-ning the machine, jumped The other seemed to be trvlng to get loose and ; was standing upright in the aide car I when the street car hit him." The police were notified and the ambulance called Sergeant A M Edwards Ed-wards directed the removal of the j CAR JACKED IT. Fully half an hour elapsed before 'the man's body could be extricated. It was necessary to Jack up the car and the car truck to allow clearance Saunders' head and shoulders were beneath the motorcycle and after the street car had been Uftod sufficiently ; to allow room, tho motorcycle was pried up with levers and the body of the man removed from underneath. J. L Hogeboom, .'4S Washington I avenue, motorman of the street car, I and R. Kunz, 329 Washington avenue, assisted In the removal of the body. Hogeboom would make no statement regarding the accident. I I C T. Muller. an official of the Utah ; Rapid Transit company, stated that the street car had made every effort I to stop Ho 'aid that the car had not i j been traveling at an excessiv e rate Mr Muller said that the car was 3 feet long and said it had not gone for-iward for-iward an entire , ;ir length alter hav ing hit the motorcycle LOGAN MI CH UPSET. I I Following the accident. Logan went I tn the police station lie was gnatl 'upset We wore going north on Washington avenue and turned at Thirteenth street, and the street car jhlt us." was his statement Passengers who were on the street car at the time of the accident were' Louis Oulld. T20 Cook street. I B. T Burton, 2ti" Patterson avenua I Mrs V Shields. j J L. Moore i 20 Thirteenth street Lorin Trapp, 2239 Monroe avenu H D Van Sickle. Plain City. Frank Suit, 271 Lighth street FATHER OF TURPI , Mr Saunders was born In Colliston. March 1 1876, the son of William G. " I and Amelia l'achelor Saunders 7'he j widow who was formerly Miss Laura May l owers, and the following children, child-ren, survive, Roy L. Laura C, and Er-nc-st M. Saunders. Lrotbers and sisters j surviving arc Mrs, Elizabeth Millard. Moplton, Ids . Heber C. Saunders. Reuben Saunders, Kdward T Saunders of Ogdeq David Saunders, Mouiton, Ida ; nnd Mrs Charlotte LSyington, The body was removed to Llnduuist's |