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Show t 1 1 1 The Victims of the Fatal Auto Smashup at Murray , , , , s At tojr, Simon (J. Hazelton, superintendent of XJ. S. Smelter at JVlidvah, who was hilled; lelow at left, Robert L. Bootlt rich merchant of JVlidvale, who was hilled, and "Willis T. Vincent, saloonkeeper of Jdidvale, who escaped with slight injuries. 11 . , J LIVES OF TWO I AUTOJDUP I Simeon C. Hazelton, Su-perintendent Su-perintendent of United States Smelter at Mid-vale, Mid-vale, and Robert L. Booth, Prominent Mer-chant, Mer-chant, Killed When Auto and Street Car Collide at Murray. DRIVER OF AUTO I IS "BADLY INJURED H Men Who Perished Had H Premonition of Death, and Did -Not Want to I Go on Trip; Effort of Chauffeur to Cross the Jt Track and Avoid Run-ning Run-ning Down Wagon Proves Fatal. TWO men. wero killed and two in-jurcd. in-jurcd. one perhaps fatally, when William 33. McGinnis, master mechanic of tho United States smelter at Midvalc, taking a. deeper-'ate deeper-'ate chunco to escape collision, with a wagon,, drove his auto head pn into a r .speeding -street'Ciir. onthe JMurray line near Sixteenth South and State streets at S o 'clock last night. The Dead. SIMEON O. HA.ZLBTON, siiperinten-dent siiperinten-dent of the United States smelter at Midvale. KOBERT I. BOOTH, a member of the town council at Midvale aud man-ager man-ager of tho Booth Mercantile company. The Injured. William B. McGinnis, four ribs brok-en, brok-en, two scalp wounds and probably in-termtlly in-termtlly injured. Willis T. Vincent, saloonkeeper at Midvale, left leg wrenched at the hips: bruisod and cut, Tho four men vcro en route to Salt Lako iu McGinnis rs five-passenger car to attend a meeting of the. directors fl of the Western .Black Marble company, iu which they wero interested. Just opposite the Progress power plant north of Murray, McGinnis turned from tho narrow roadway to tho. east of the car tracks aud crossed to the othor side, seeking a safer passage of the street car approaching at high speod from the north. Blinded by the headlight of the stroot car, he failed to see, until, too late, a wagon comiug from the north iJ on the west sido of the tracks. A col-lision col-lision with the wagon was imminent. Crashes Into Oar, jH Taking tho only courso left to him, McGinnis spun his steering wheel to the right aud shot full speed ahead into the blinding glaro of the headlight in tho forlorn hope of clearing tho track ahead of tho car. Thero was a grinding, crnshing roar of splintering glass and buckling steel, drowning tho cries of ter-ror ter-ror from the doomed men in tho auto. and tho warning shout of tho motorman. A flnsh of light from the broken cir-cuit cir-cuit of tho car lighted up tho surround-ings surround-ings and then, camo darkness. When the lights woro restored the auto was found in tho ditch a rod or two from tho roud, reduced to a mass of junk. Tho bodies of Hazlelon and Booth, tho hoads literally clovon in two -and the limbs crnshed out of all semblance, . wero found by tho sido of tho wreckage. McGinnis lay unconscious in tho ditch twenty yards form tho streofc car. Viu-cent, Viu-cent, stunnod into momentary insensi- t bility, was picked up on tho other side of the Btroet. His injuries were slight. Motorman Escapes. Motorman T. A. ProdrickBon of tho street car camo unscathed through tho shower of glass and wreckage, though ho was stunnod for a moment by tho shock. M, M. Taylor, undertaker in chargo of tho Midvale branch' of the S. M. Taylor Undertaking company, was on tho front platform with the con-ductor con-ductor and was unhurt. Ho was splashed from head to foot with the blood from tho victims. Prcdrickson brought his car to a stop a few rods beyond tho point of (Continued on Pago Nine,) LOSE LIVES TRYING TP MOID COLLISIOil (Oonticued From Pago One.) impact. The score of passengers, all hurled from their Hcat.s but unhurt, poured out of tho car and began at once to care for the injured. Booth was dead wheu found. .Hazlc-ton .Hazlc-ton died as they were lifting btm aboard tho street car. Dr. W II. Rothwcil of Murray was one of the first to reach the scone. Tie ministered min-istered first aid to McGinnls and Vincent, Vin-cent, who were taken to their homes In Mldvale on the car that struck them, which was not so badly damaged but that It could continue its outbound trip. No Time to Slow Down. Employees of the Progress power plant saw the accident from the .windows of tho planti They declared that the stroct car was running at full speed, which Is about twenty-live to thirty miles an hour, and that so suddenly did the danger arise that there was no time for warning or reduction of speed. From the words and actions of the victims vic-tims an hour before tho accident, It Is evident that each had a premonition of death. The four men had agreed early In the day to attend the meeting In Salt Lake without fall. When Vincent and McGinnls called for Superintendent Haz-elton Haz-elton they found him In a peculiar mood. He said ho had changed his mind and would not accompany them. Pressed for reasons, he had none. He appeared 111 at ease and preoccupied, and It was only with much persuasion that he finally got Into the car. Booth, too, said he h?.d changed his mind and presented pre-sented several excuses for not making the trip, but these were overrrlden by his companions. "Strangely enough, It occurred to me not to make the trip early in the evening;" even-ing;" said Mr. Vincent last night. "I had no exact premonition of trouble, but a vague uneasiness possessed me and I seriously considered staying at home." Realized. Danger. "We vera rolling along at a fair clip as we sjproached the car," continued Mr. Vinewit. "McGinnls was keeping to the narrow roadway on the east side of the tracks and apparently he feared to pass the street car on this narrow road lest he might, in the confusing lights, strike a telegraph pole on the side of the road. He crossed In front of the car while It was about 100 yards away. I was sitting In iho rear seat directly behind be-hind McGlnnis: Booth was in the front seat and Hazel ton was Just behind him In the back seat. None of us saw the wagon until we were within thirty yards of It. The wagon and the street car were abreast. McGinnls took the only chance that offered. He tried to recross the tracks, The front wheels were over the track when the car struck us. Being on the outside, both McGinnls and my-Bclf my-Bclf were thrown clear of both auto and car. This undoubtedly saved us. Hazel-ton Hazel-ton and Booth were caught inside and hurled against the street car." Spectator Dazed. '1 noticed the auto coming toward us rather erratically while it was at least 100 yards away." said M. M. Taylor, the undertaker, who was on the front platform. plat-form. "I saw them cross the track to apparent safety and I could hardly believe be-lieve my eyes when it turned again In our way. I saw what was going to happen hap-pen and I had an impulse to jump from the platform, but horror held me in a sort of trance. The force of the collision threw me against. the controller and I was stunned for a moment. When I. gathered my wits I found my shirt front wns splashed with blood and I thought I had been hurt at first." The bodies of Hazel ton and Booth were taken to the Taylor undertaking establishment estab-lishment nt Mldvale. Simon C. Hazelton had been superintendent superin-tendent of the Murray smeller of tho United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company since 1000. He was born In Washington, D. C. forty-five years apo. Ills mother, Diana Hazelton. and his sisters, Hannah and -Lillian Hazelton. Hazel-ton. reside In Washington. Mr Hazelton graduated from the Lehigh Le-high university at South Bethlehem, Pa., in 188S, taking a degree in mining engineering. engi-neering. He was a classmate and a lifelong life-long friend of Max S. Hauauer. president of the Union assay office of this city. Veteran in Smelter Work. Hazelton came to Salt Lake in IS50 and for several years was assistant superintendent super-intendent of the old Germania and Mingo smelters at Murray. He became assistant assist-ant superintendent of the United States smelter at Murray In 1303, Later he went to Peru and was Identified with the McCtine mining Interests there until three years ago, when he was offered and accepted the position of superintendent superin-tendent of tho Mldvale smelter. I Mr. Hazelton had hundreds of friends In Salt Lake and throughout the west. He enjoyed a reputation of being one of the most expert mining and smelter men In the west and was accouated a man of ! thorough capabilities and character. He i was unmarried. The body will be taken to Washington for burial. Robert L. Booth Is survived by a widow, a father and mother, six brothers, and a sister. He was -13 yeara old. He had lived in Ildvalo many years, coming com-ing from the east, and had established himself as a prominent business man and citizen. His mother, Mrs. Isaac Booth, collapsed when told of the accident, and her condition Is critical. She had been ill for many weeks and It Is feared the shock of grief will cause a serious relapse. re-lapse. Early this morning Mr. McGinnls was alive, with fair chances of recovery. Dr. J. E. Robertson, who is attending him. pronounced his condition as critical, but not without hope. McGlnnis is unmarried. unmar-ried. He came to Mldvale from Montana Mon-tana three years ago and became master mas-ter mechanic at the smelter soon after his arrival. Vincent Little Injured. Mr. Vincent was able to visit the families fam-ilies of his stricken frlendH last night and apparently " was little the worse for his experience. He Is tlio proprietor of the Vincent bar in Mldvale, which was tho scene of a spectacular holdup several weeks ago. According to a statement made to F. E. Hansen, claims adjustor of the Utah Light & Railway company, by Motor-man Motor-man T. A. Frcderlckson and Conductor E. C. Clare, tho accident was unavoidable. unavoid-able. The men said; "We were traveling south on Stato street in car No. 606. which Is known as a "600" clpss car. weighing about 32 tons, the heaviest in the service. Our speed was normal. As is well known, the tracks hug tho left side of State street going south, leaving room only for a narrow roadway to the left. Only pnH vehicle can occupy this roadway at or.BBVI "The autoiats were driving north alonVKpl this roadway. At a point directly oppoBBVJ site the Progress Powor plant the autBBV without warning, suddenly swerved taBVJ the left, evidently to avoid a riy, ar.-BH crashed hoadon into our car. An investigation lo determine responHH siblllty for the accident will be made t"BBpl day. according to Mr Hansen. .. J The Tribune covered tho story of tl'BVBV accident, both at the svono of the co Hslon and at Midvale. with tho aid of big Pierce-Arrow 1012 model car irolH the Tom Botterli garage Under tlio conH trot of an experienced chauffeur, AH Tribune car made record time to anH from Midvale. IH |
