| Show I GIRlS BODY GUT IN i TWO I Little Dorothy Avrett RunDown Run-Down By Trolley CarII INQUEST TO BE HELD TODAY I FiveYcnrOld Daughter of H S Avrett While Trying to Cross In Front of Center Street and Jordan Bridge Car at First South and Sixth West Streets Was Run Over I and Instantly Killed A Fender Might Havo Saved the Childs Life Dorothy Florence Avrett the five yearold daughter of II S Avretl 675 West First South was run down and klllod by 1 a street car a L First South and Sixth West streets about 6 oclock last evening The childs body was cut In two causing Instant death The accident occurred almost directly direct-ly 1 In front of time little furls home whore she had been playing along tho thoroughfare and vas wen by several pedestrians who were passing and also by fortyJive passengers on tho Center Klreot and Jordan brldjrc car No 12 The child had been playing alonG the I I I Dorothy Avrott street hanging on behind warons for short distances whon abe would drop off and catch other passing vehicles She limped from one of those jupt as the street car run by Molorman It C Ferguson cuinc along going went She evidently became alarmed at the nearness near-ness of the car and too badly frightened fright-ened to Judcre quickly she started to cross in front of It In an effort to reach her horn when she was struck BOY TRIED TO SAVE HER William Jcnhlna an eighteenyear old boy who was riding on the front platform of the car mudo a desperate effort to seize the child before she was rim down but failed and had n narrow escape from Injury hiimxjlf Ferguson quickly shut off the current and applied ap-plied the brake but It was too late to saC the child The passengers on the cur realizing what had been done were panicstricken and hurriedly started for the doors vomeii shrlkod and It hi said one of them fainted Henry Had icy conductor of the car said that he was unaware at the time what was the cause of the tumult hut he heard the sound of the car passing over the body The car went thirty feet before slopping slop-ping Benjamin Givers who was passing pass-ing and saw the accident lifted the little lit-tle girl and It was found that the trunk of her body had bccn almost completely complete-ly J flccrcd between the ribs and abdomen abdo-men The child evidently died Instant ly J and without pain Dr Wllcox however how-ever was summoned lie removed tho body to the little girls home lie Bald she had been completely disemboweled COULDNT STOP CAR Both of the streetcar men ntatcd thnt the cur was going at the ordinary rate of speed and was stopped aa quickly nn possible under the circumstances circum-stances Ferguson says he saw the little lit-tle girl but no quickly did the thing happen lie was unable to check tho speed of his car Mr Arrctt bus been living In the neighborhood where the accident occurred oc-curred only about three weeks He Is well known In the county and In several sev-eral other towns of the State however For about live years he lived in Salt Lake prior to his removal to Grants villc 1 from which place ho came only a fow weoks ago Tho mother of the lit tle girl has been dead about one year There are three other children ln the family INQUEST TODAY Assistant County Attorney Loot bou IQW decided last night that an Inquest into the death of the girl would be held to fix the responsibility of the accident but it was postponed until today Jus tice Morris Sommer will conduct the Inquest I tIn t-In all probability the Consolidated Railway and Power company will be asked to explain why fenders have not been attached to the cars us promised on many occasions It Is the unanimous opinion of those who saw yesterdays accident that the fonder device or dinarily used would have saved the childs life |
