Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-24 | Page 36 | Aged Woman is Victim of Auto

AGED ACED WOMA WOMAN IS OF AUTO Driver and Companions Leap to Street and Escape Sufferer Likely to Die Every en ayala available le police pollee olce officer was searching carl early this tills morning for tor the driver of or an automobile who abandoned abandoned abandoned aban aban- his car last nl night t a few minutes after atter he had run down and probably tatal fatally injured Mrs Irs J J. Wright 77 7 years rs of age at I Fourth South and State streets streets Although scores of ot people witnessed the accident and observed the driver open tl p t throttle of or his machine machine machine ma ma- chine and speed awa away no 10 one so far tar has been found who can throw an any light on the Identity of tho the driver drivet From tho the scone of the thc accident the machine ran at top speed peed to tho the corner cor eec nor ncr of ot Fourth South and amid Main streets where the time occupants two men Inca and a a. woman were seen to leap from tho the car cat carand and amid aUl run north on Main aln street Several persons person gave chase but lut the trio were I lost 0 St St. Mrs Irs Wright a widow resides in the Plandome hotel und nail a was returning home from corn a visit with hor her daughter I Mrs 0 O. IC K Clark in tho the Fairmont apartments She Site was wa crossing crossing- the tho street when tho car struck her Iter Vit lt sa say the automobile did not slow up for tor the intersection Several other persons leaped clear of oC the machine but th time the aged yoman woman was unable to escape e. e She was hurl hurled cd a distance of ot more than twenty feet teet to the tIme entrance to the Plan Plandome dome hotel hotel She was rendered ren ren- dered unconscious and amId according to reports from Holy Cross hospital where she was removed after the accIdent accident ac ac- ac- ac she sIlo has little chance for Cor er er Examination disclosed that she SilO had Isad suffered a 0 compound fracture of both hoth legs lacerations of tho the face and bod body and probably concussion of tile the brain ain and internal injuries S