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Show Alva Ingersoll Dies From Car Injuries An accident which resulted in the death of Alva A. Ingersoll of American Ameri-can Fork occurred about 7:30 Wednesday Wed-nesday night near Second East on the State highway near the Lehi hospital. George C. Loveridge of Lehi and his family were on then-way then-way to the picture show traveling north on the highway at about 15 miles an hour and the driver was ( slowing up to stop at the theatre, i A car coming from the north with glaring headlights blinded him and he struck Ingersoll who was standing stand-ing about four feet on the cement of the highway. Mr. Ingersoll was caught by the fender and carried for several feet. Officers who investigated investi-gated the accident say the Loveridge car stopped within five steps of where Mr. Ingersoll was struck. Mr. Ingersoll was picked up and taken into the Lehi hospital where he was given treatment. He had suffered a compound fracture of the right leg, a deep cut on the back of the head and a fractured skulL He did not regain consciousness and died at 1:30 yesterday morning. Mr. Ingersoll was born January 5, 1876, in American Fork, the son of David and Mary J. Alston Ingersoll. He is survived by his wife, Mary Jacobs Ingersoll, two sons, Clyde and John, four daughters, Melva Whittaker, Jessie Cornwall, May Chrisman and Ruth Ingersoll, all of Los Angeles; four brothers, Joseph E. and Milton H., American Fork; Emmett Ingersoll, Draper; L. Boss, Colorado, and three sisters, Esther Crystal and Margaret, Salt Lake, and Emma Countryman, Spokane, Washington. Funeral services had not been arranged ar-ranged late yesterday afternoon. O : |