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Show 10 ESCAPE DEATH WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Anthony Pinned Under Car; Severely Injured. Machine of Victims and That Driven by Youths Badly Damaged. T'innei liencath their automobile vhen the machine turned turtle, following a collision with another ear on the Ogtlen road, just north of the Salt Lake county line, vesterday, Kdward D. ' Anthony, a fialt Lake fireman, suffered an injured spine and numerous bruises about his lmdy, and his wife, Mrs. Annie E. Anthony, An-thony, received a fractured skull, a severe scalp wound and several bruises, and lies at the point of death at St. -Mark 's hospital. According to the police, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Kate Irvine, 21 Wouth Eleventh East street, were driving driv-ing their machine northward en route to Bountiful, and turned to the right shortly after, entering Davis county, to pass a southbound car, said to have been driven by Miss Tlortense Stohl, daughter daugh-ter of Lorenzo N. Stohl, 717 East First tSouth street. A second machine, said by the police to have been driven by ("laud Ueiner, 1(3 years of age, son of Moroni Heiner, 1910 Fifth East street, and to have been occupied bv two other youths, liobert Snell, 22i)8 Eighth East street, and Eugene Driggs, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Driggs, 550 Driggs avenue, was reported by the officers to have been ciosely following the auto driven by Miss itohl, and to have turned to the left in order to pass Miss Stohl's c:ir just as Mr. Anthony's machine attempted at-tempted to pass. Car Turns Turtle. Chief of the fire department, William H. Bywater, who investigated the accident, ac-cident, asserted that the force of the impact when the automobiles came together to-gether was such that the Anthony machine ma-chine turned completely over twice, pinning the occupants beneath it when it stopped at the side of the road. Mrs. Irvine was able to extricate herself, but Mr. and - Mrs. Anthony remained beneath be-neath the ear until rescued from their position. The three young men were said to have been thrown from their car and j,rj have suffered numerous bruises and lacerations, though neither received serious injuries. The police ambulance was summoned, but the victims of the accident were taken to St. Mark 's hospital by Deputy Sheriff Lauren D. Briggs of Davis county, who was a short distance away when the accident occurred. Traveling at High Speed. Both machines were badly damaged. The police assert that the car driven by young Heiner belonged to Miss btohl's father, and that the machine driven by Miss Stotil, in which two other young ladies were riding, belonged to Moroni Heiner. The three girls in one machine and the three 3-ouths in the other, were said by the police to luive been traveling at an excessive speed at the time yie accident occurred. Another daughter of Mr. Stohl's, Yenuio Stohl, 9 years of age, was killed in an automobile accident last, July at Eighth East and Second South streets. Tlie little girl was riding the handle bars of a bicycle with a playmate, Samuel Stewart, when they collided with Dr. W. A. Colton's machine. She received injuries from which she died a few days later. |