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Show MOTHER GIVES LIFE TO SAVEHER BABY Mrs. Elinorc Bcrryniau Is In- . stantly Killed- by South , Temple Car. j CHILD IS TOSSED ASIDE AND SEVERELY INJURED Physician Says, However. That the Little One Will Recover. Sacrificing her life to save that, of her six-months-old babe, Mrs. Jllinore Berryman, 25 years of age, tho. wife of, George H. Bcrryniau of Granger, tossed her infant out of her arms .isfc before she was-struck b3' westbound South I Temple street car No. -133, undor the management of Motormun A. Krummell and Conductor. L. D. Hartwell, at tho sorfthcast corner of Fourth East and Brigham streets Saturday, night at S:02 o'clock. Her aunt, Mrs. Benjamin Berryman, Ber-ryman, rcsidfng at 25 Fourth East street, who was standing on tho southeast south-east corner at the time of tho accident, ran screaming toward tho bab', and, picking up the infaut, led the waj to her jionie, to which the mother was carried car-ried afterwards by Motormau Krummell and twoslrangcrs who wero on the front platform when the car struck tho woman. Mrs. Elinoro Borrymau died before she reached the house. Her husband, hus-band, George H. Berryinnn, was notified of tho accident at his farm in Granger by a representative of The Tribuue, who telephoned the sad news. Mr, Bpr-rym.'in Bpr-rym.'in immediately hurried to the home of his aunt. t Police Are Notified. The news of the accident was immediately im-mediately telephoned to the polico station sta-tion .by employees of tho Brigham Street pharmacy, and Lieutenant TIempel at once detailed cDr. F. B. Steele. Patrolman Patrol-man "W. A Griffin and Special Officer L. L. IWire lo look into tho details of tho accidcut. The information gathered by the polico department was as follows: fol-lows: ' George IT. Berryman had taken his wifo and her child, Dorothy, to tho home of his aunt Saturday morning at 11 o'clock, from where sho was to have left to attend a. lodge mooting of the Naomi lodge "No.jJ, Daughters of I?c-bckah, I?c-bckah, of -wJjich' sho was a member, and, wliich inet at the I. Q. O.' 1 hall Saturday night. Sho had left the house with her aunt, who was taking her to the car at the corner of Fourth East and Brigham slroets. Just as tho women were ncaring tho corner, an eastbonnd car stormed at the southeast corner and Mrs. Elinoro Berryman remarked to her aunt, that she would havo to hurry to catch tho car for the city, which usually canio along shortly after the castbound car had passed .thcwcorncr. Tries to Save Baby. ' With the baby in her arms Mrs. Berryman Berry-man started around tho rear end of the car standing on tho southeast corner and before shy could step back was struck by tho westbound car.. Realizing her danger tho woman tossed the baby, which was wranped in a heavy shawl, behind her, .-just before tho car struck her- She sustained a fracturo of the skull over tho right temple, wliich extended ex-tended lo the base of the skull. The child sustained a sori'ous scalp wound, tho scalp being torn away from tho forehead just abovo tho eyebrows to tho .back of tho head. The child was immediately carried into tho houso of tho aunt and Dr. C. F." Wildox' was summoned. sum-moned. Ho dressed tho wounds of tho infant and then notified tho physicians in the n.mploy of the street railway, who ordered the removal of the child to the Grovos L. D. S. hospital, where it was said it would recover. One'-of the mnu who was standing on the front platform of the car when it struck the woman and who later carried car-ried hor into the homo of her auut. said that car No. 433 was running at tho rato of twonty-fivo mies per hour at the, time of tho accident. Ho also said that tho motormau had thrown off his controller 150 feet up tho street from the corner whero tho accidont had occurred, oc-curred, and was allowing tho car to eoatit when tho woman was struck. Tho forco of fho collision, according to the man on tho front platform, smashed the fender, aud the car ran , threo of rTs lengths boforo it could be stopped by the motorman, who immediately threw on tho air. Tho throwing on of the air ko suddenly, after striking the woman., is said to have huddled a number num-ber of the passengers into tho front end of the car. Officials Eeticent. Asked regarding his business, tho man on the front platform said that he was a railroad man and also 6tatcd positively that; no gong had been sounded, and said .ha,t tho car struck the woman before the molonnan' hud had time to sound bis gong. Both of the inolormcn, tho conductor and tho car dispatcher .refused to dis-, cuss tho accident, and referred inquiries from tho newspaper men to tho claim agent; F. E. Hansen, claim agent of tho Utah Light and Kailway company, was found at the Orpheum theater shortly after tho accident occurred, but could tell vnry little- about, it, as he said that he knew but few of the details. |
