| Show M 7 Ii F Fb b tr I i I iTi 4 M JaK K Ji fek i v-v v j. j y Vv r 2 p L A I s 4 I 4 V 4 0 WRECK FOUND 3 DAYS AFTER CRASH Investigating officers ers examine wreckage e of or automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile which plunged ed down doun embankment 1012 miles south of at Thistle Utah carrying tn two 0 former service men to death Part of oC one body hody can be I seen in fore foreground round under front of the machine The fatal accident apparently occurred Saturday 2 Utah Vets Killed In hi Canyon Crash By TeJe Telegram ram Leased Wire Vire PROVO PROVO Utah's Utah's 1946 highway fatality toll had jumped to 53 Wednesday with discovery of the bodies of two former service servicemen men killed when their automobile plunged from an embankment at Birdseye Utah county about 10 miles south of Thistle The accident apparently occurred Saturday night although I wreckage was not discovered until late Tuesday afternoon The dead Golden Goden A. A Mower lower 24 son of or Mrs Martha Terry Mower Fair Fair- view Russell NIelson 20 son of ot Mr and Mrs Wilford L. L NIelson Fairview lew The accident brought the Utah 1 county fatality to toll for this year to seven compared with three at this time last year The bodies and the wrecked machine machine machine ma ma- chine were discovered by three youths from Fairview v who were hitchhiking through Dry canyon Therald and Lamont Lament Rigby and andRoss andRoss andRoss Ross Bhone who discovered the accident told tod officers they had been seen riding north In a car driven by jy T. T E. E McKeen of Birdseye who let Jet et them out of the car near his horn home lome e. e They saw the wreckage as they walked along the embankment near a brid bridge e and ran back to the home lome of Mr McKeen who telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned Utah County Sheriff Theron S. S Hall Both victims had been thrown I clear of the sedan One was lying near the front of the machine and the he other near the right door Investigators said the car apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap was traveling north on highway U. U S S. S 89 80 Tracks showed snowed the he machine left the highway on the he wrong side approximately feet from the bridge and plunged down a foot 10 embankment into a rocky gulch One of the victims wore a wristwatch which was stopped at 11 15 11 45 15 leading officers to believe that hat may have been the time of the hc accident Relatives of the victims said they had been missing since 5 p. p m. m Saturday Both men had recently been discharged from the army after serving in the European theater of operations Mr Mower was born bom in FairSee FairSee Fair- Fair See Page 7 Column 1 I 1946 H HIGHWAY FATAliTY TOLL Utah total 1946 19 53 Utah April total tota 3 To date last year ear 34 3 All of last year Salt Lake count county outside city 4 To date last ast year 3 All of 1945 20 Salt SaH Lake City to April 10 10 1916 9 o oTo To date last year 10 All of 19 1915 30 30 Davis county to April 10 1946 6 C To date Ia last t year 0 All of 1915 17 Utah count county to April 10 1946 19 7 To date I last t year 3 All of 1915 16 Weber eber county to April 10 1946 1 t 4 tTo To date late last ast year ear 8 All AJI of 1915 28 11 z d z Die De Dien Dier r t n Canyon anyon 7 Crash rash of Car ar Continued from Page On One eW tI a son of or FrancIs and Martha Marthar Mower and a attended t t c i e-i h d e d errY Terry r In view Fairview and Mt PleasE Pleas Pleas- ant t E are his mother h his is e s Cox dow Mrs Dorothy Mower I son Golden Wayne Mower 3 il of Fairview and the following ill roth rs and sisters Ross Max afar l ii G d Rayona Mower view Fairview emU Terrill Mower Germany Mrs Una Ine Castleberry Provo and Mrs mma Farnsworth Salt Sal t Lake City J M Air Mr Nelson NIelson was born in Fairview Fairview Fair Fair- 4 i view July 15 1925 a son of f WilI Wil Wil- ford L. L and Eva Hansen Nielson I He Ie attended Fairview schools t Surviving are arc his parents five nye broth brothers rs and two VO sisters Gerald Ralph Robert Kenneth and Geneva Gene- Gene Fairview Juan Nici- Nici j va Nielson Uon aan with the navy in the Pacific nd d Mrs Mra Valera Vance Bell GareM Gar- Gar eM CaL 1946 loo Tr H APR L moors S 1946 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT AT 7 8 9 10 11 1213 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2425 26 2627 27 28 29 30 Aprils April's traffic record assumed a grim look Wednesday with additIon addition addition addi addi- tion of two moro more deaths as aCi the re result of an accident which apparently apparently ap ap- occurred Saturday night but was va not discovered until lato Tuesday Two service ex men were killed In the tho Utah county crash |
