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Show T. F. BYRNES OF CEDAR DIES IX AUTO CRASH i r ' Thomas E. Byrnes, well known in railway circles here and prominent nationally as a writer on Utah sub-' sub-' jecls. was killed Saturday morning in an automobile accident near Cedar City, according to dispatches received in Salt Lake. ' Clarence Olson of Cedar City, who i was riding with Mr. Byrnes, received I injuries which are expected to pr-.-ve fatal. J. C. Littie, a third passer. ger cscaped with minor hurts. Mr. Bymes's death climaxed a series se-ries of fatalities which had pur. tied i him throughout life. His wife and two children were killed in an c-ast-j em railway crash before he came to j Utah. He iost a fortune when an j Illinois mine was destroyed by a j blast. Seventy-five men perished in j the disaster. Other ventures he made i i:t Utah were similarly unfortunate, I but he remained an optimist to the last and was regarded as one of the state's best advertisers by the men who knew him. j Crash on the Lund Road j Saturday's fatal crash occurred about six miles w est of Cedar City on : the road to Lund. After missir.g a branch train. Byrnes. Olson and Little had started to drive to Lund in the hope of making connections there for Salt Lake. At the point where the accident occurred, they encountered a truck laden with a small frame house in the process of being moved. Little, who was driving, attempted to pass, but struck the end of the pro- jecting building, his car splintering j the framework. A timber broke ' I Bymes's r.eck. killing him instantly, j Olson was pinned beneath other t::a-; t::a-; bers and sustained interna! injuries, j -Bymes's body was taken back to j Cedar City and Olson was place! in ! the hospital there. Attempts are be- ing made to communicate with a sis- 1 ter of Mr. Byrnes, believed to be living liv-ing in Kentucky. So far as is known the si-ier is the only surviving relative. rela-tive. Tragedy to be Probed An investigation is being made at Cedar City to determine resppnsibil-I resppnsibil-I it y for the tragedy, i Mr. Byrnes was about 65 years old. At one time he was transportation I manager for the Missouri Pacific, j with offices in St. Louis. He left this position for the disasterous mine : venture, and. after that, about twen-j twen-j ty-five years ago. came to Utah to . start life anew. The newcomer had to begin at the bottom of the railway ladder again as i a braketr.an with the Utah-Idaho Central. He subsequently becaaie station agent at Brigham City, and, 'after an unsuccessful peach-shipping j venture, obtained a post as superintendent superin-tendent with the Utah Construction t company, w hich was then building 'the Lund-Cedar City branch. i ! When the railway was finished Mr. 1 Byrnes remained at Cedar Citv. iden tifying himself prominently with the life cf that town, and wrote many magazines and newspaper articles about the wonders of southern Utah. He was an occasional contributor to The Tribune, and w as organizer and ; f'rst president of the Zion Canyon i olnb. He was a frequent visitor here and was well known, not only in liter-jary. liter-jary. but railway circles. One of his j recent Enterprises had been the pab-lication pab-lication of the Utah Tourists' guide. ( devoted chiefly to the attractions of the southern part of the state. S.:lt i Lake Tribune, i |