Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-07-20 | Page 1 | Salt Lake Women Hurt in Auto Crash on Coast

jSALT LAKE WOMEN HURT it vtf it IN AUTO CRASH ON COAST! j MRS. SARAH A. M'CH RYSTAL of this city, who, with j , Mrs. Fj. K. Woodruff, also of Salt Lake, was severely in- j ' jurcd in an automobile accident in Los Angeles last night. . 'r - ,''','''''" ' 'k Jj it. , ' :'l ( ' , t' -- I r i i . " ' ' i - " : -a -::.: , if A I - " K I - - I , c ' " L Mrs. Sarah McChrystal and Mrs. F. K. Woodruff Severely Injured. Special to The Tribune. LOS ANGELES. Cah, July 1?. Mrs. Sarah A. McChrystal of Salt Lake City was seriously injured and the right arm of Mrs. F. K. Woodruff of the same city was broken this evening when two big Plerce-Arrow cars collided at Thirty-eighth street and Grand avenue. The injured women were given emergency emer-gency treatment by Dr. Harland Shoemaker Shoe-maker at his home, 1956 La Salle street, and were later taken to the hospital of the Good Samaritan. The women, both of whom are staying at the Hotel Virginia at Long Beach, were being driven in Mrs. McChrystal's car by W. C. Leslie, her chauffeur. Leslie Les-lie was driving east on Thirty-eighth street, making for the Long Beach road, when, at the Grand avenue crossing, he found himself almost upon a car driven by John Zobelien, 3S01 Moneta avenue, who was taking Mrs. Phillip Zobelien to her home at 301 South Grand. As she saw the collision was imminent, Mrs. McChrystal. despite her il years, attempted at-tempted to jump to the ground before the crash came. She only succeeded in being thrown against the Zobelien car and was rendered unconscious. Three of her ribs were broken, her scalp was cut and she suffered other bruises and abrasions. Mrs. Woodruff remained re-mained in her seat, but her right arm was broken and she was also jolted hard and suffered considerably from shock. The ZobeMens escaped unhurt, as did Leslie, the chauffeur, who had been driving driv-ing the McChrystal car. Mrs. Sarah A, McChrystal, who is mentioned men-tioned In the foregoing dispatch as having hav-ing been -severely injured at Los Angeles, An-geles, is one of t he best known women In Utah. Her home is at S75 East First South street. She is the widow of John McChrystal, prominent mining man, who died years aso, and is the mother of Mrs. W. R. Wallace of this citv. John li. Mc-Chrvstal, Mc-Chrvstal, Ja-.-kson McChrystal and A. 1 1. McChrystal of Eureka. Jason McChrystal of Logan, Mark McChrystal of Long Beach and Mrs. E. C. Parsons of this city. Mrs. F. K. Woodruff, who resides at No. 49 Twelfth East street, also is widely known in this ciLy. She Is the widow of F. K. Woodruff, the mother of -Russell Woodruff and Miss Adelaide Woodruff, the niece of City Commissioner Henry w. Lawrence and the sister of Mrs. Karl A. Scheid. Although Mrs. McChrystal and Mrs. Woodruff left the city for the coast about two weeks ago. they did not make the trip together. Thpy met. however, at the Hotel Virginia at Long Beach, where both were stopping. W. C. Leslie, Mrs. McChrystal's chauffeur, chauf-feur, is well known in Salt Lake. He formerly for-merly drove one of the motors In the fire department and always has been known as a careful driver. At an early hour this morning nothing hud been heard concerning the accident by the families of the two women, aside from the information furnished tu them by The Tribune.