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Show ACCIDENT TAKES LIFE OF LOCAL RESIDENT Nelson Wright Struck By Automobile, Dies; Wife Suffers Injuries Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Second ward chapel directed by J. Y. Bearnson, Fifth ward bishop, for Nelson Wright, 69, of this city, who died of injuries sustained early ear-ly Sunday morning in an automobile automo-bile accident on 90 South Main street. The body was shipped to Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, 111., Tuesday evening for burial, bur-ial, under direction of the Claudin funeral home. At the time Mr. Wright was fatally injured his wife, Mrs. Pearl B. Sumsion Wright, suffered suffer-ed painful injuries and was taken to the Payson hospital where her condition is reported as improving. improv-ing. According to H. M. Weight, police po-lice chief, the couple were crossing cross-ing the street to get on an approaching ap-proaching southbound Salt Lake & Utah railroad train when an automobile driven north by Mrs. Reva M. Jackson, Provo, struck them. " Mr. Wright suffered fractured legs and ribs, a skull fracture and fractured collar bone, and died about ten minutes after the accident. acci-dent. Mrs. Wright suffered a fractured leg, knee injury and severe se-vere body cuts and bruises. Driver of the automobile assert-edly assert-edly told Chief Weight she was blinded by the approaching train lights and did not see the couple until the automobile struck them. Mr. Wright's death was the second traffic fatality here within a week. A boy, Gail Averett, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Averett, Aver-ett, was fatally injured Aug 13 when struck by an automobile driven by O. D. Rust. Mr. Wright was born in Lewis-ton, Lewis-ton, 111., Nov. 12, 1874, a son of Phillip and Martha Warner Wright. He came to Utah in 1924 and for 17 years was employed by the Columbia Steel Co. at Ironton. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Fel-lows lodge at Canton, 111. He married Mrs. Sumsion Oct. 16, 1925, in Springville. Survivors besides his widow include in-clude two stepsons and two stepdaughters, step-daughters, Fred Sumsion, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove; Ray Sumsion, Caliente, Nev.; Mrs. Lucille Watts and Mrs. Marie Peters of Springville; six brothers and sisters, Harry and Irving Wright and Mrs. Ellen Walraven, Canton, HI.; Mrs. Sarah Ralston, Peoria, HI.; Mrs. Rachel Jane Linbaugh, Lewiston, HI.; Mrs. Sylvia Onion, Chicago, HI. |