Show Funeral uner Rites Held Tod Today y for Accident Victim Forest Foresi Same Truck on OD Dry DIf DryFork Fork Road Sunday Funeral services for Gerald N Reid Reid 23 na who was killed Sunday night when a For For- Forest Forest est Service truck ran oft the Dry D Fork DryFork Road and overturned will willbe will willbe be held today Thur Thursday day at 2 pm at the Hanna Ward Chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints The accident at about 10 pm when the truck a weapon on carrier carrier- driven o H Holman 34 Salt e City ap- ap ap- ap apparently went out of control as asit It approached a curve and pl pled ed over a foot 10 embankment rolling over once and landin landing upright on Its wheels The nine occupants of the vehicle were all thrown out Specific location of the acc acci- acci accident dent was two miles above the Dry Fork settlement between the first and second bridges over the Dry Fork Creek The men were to work on the Forest Service road construe construe- construction tion project in Brownies Can Can- Canyon yon Ernest Weeks 18 son of Mr El an and Mrs Alvin 1 Weeks suffer suffered ed B a broken collarbone William E Buck Salt Lake City incurred a fractured wrist Other occupants of the truck were Orvil Oaks Vernal Hugh HughH HughH H Davis Spanish Fork Faustino Madrid Vernal John A Reid Tabiona E B Buck Salt Lake CIty According to statements made by several men riding in the truck Homan HoJman an employee with 17 years experience with the Forest Service was travel travel- traveling traveling ing at a high rate of speed Mr Reid Who suffered a rap rup- ruptured turgid liver was apparently in in- in injured when the over him A large rock also rolled on him and had to be bd removed Following the accident themen the themen men walked back to Dry Fork and got Tad and Orvid Merkley who took their pickup truck to the scene of e a a accident A stretcher was fIa d d dei ei wag d-wag di i the tr ab e eU U Coun oU asp II H Ha Continued on page page 5 Accident Victim Continued from page 1 died between 2 and end 3 am Mon Mon- Monday day morning The truck was apparently un un- undamaged damaged with the exception of ofa ofa a broken windshield dented fender f and a bent running board The accident was Investigated ed by Sheriff Herbert M Snyder Snyder der Deputy Sheriff Vet Carroll and County Attorney Hugh W Colton Horace orace E Hedges re re- regional gional safety officer arrived at Vernal Monday to make an in in- in investigation investigation for the Forest Ser Ser- Service Service vice It is understood that local law enforcement officials are weighing the possibility of bringing an Involuntary man man- manslaughter manslaughter slaughter action against Holman MK Mt Reid was b ft Tabiona March Marco 19 1923 the th son son of Mr and Mrs Parley Reid I IMarco He is survived by his parents parents- two brothers Bernard P Reid and John Arlease Reid Tabiona and three sisters Verda Genea McLaughlin San S a n Francisco I Gwen Alice Reid and Georgia Viola Reid both of Tabiona |