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Show DAVID 1 MORRIS IS SALT LAKE VISITOR Genial "Speaker of Third House" Tells of Accident at St. George. RepreaentatKe David H. Moma. Leino-rratlc Leino-rratlc member of the legislature from Washington county, arrived In the city from fi. George j eaterday to transact some legal b:.slne?a. Tbe genial "speaker of the third houee" said he did not bnM to town to hold any polti:a I POW-V owe or make any nominations for the federal judgeship. "I taven't thought abojt politics lately, said Mr. Morris, "and l will be busy with some legal affairs a.i the time i am here." Mr. Muni came over the stage routs from .St George theay following the accident in which a woman was killed and a number of persona seriously injured when Hie amo stage rumbled down a 200-foot embankment. He inspected the scene of the accident and talked with some of the participants. lie said: From what I learned from some of those who were In t ne. accident. I believe that Mrs. arah t.'asto. tha woman who was killed, died from heart failure following the shock., rather than from any injuries. They said she was conscious after the accident and did not aeem to be badly hurt. Then, suddenly, ahe collapsed and expired ex-pired on the spot. It has been found that Alvin ftuckl, the young man whose hack was reported re-ported broken, was not hurt as seriously seri-ously a first reported. The doctors find i hat ids back was not broken. fin t his spl nal cord ws s I n ju red a nd 'tiier Is still douut an to whether this will cause permanent paralysis. His loWer limbs are paralyzed now. I saw the place where the accident occurred when I came along the. next day. The auto stage was at the foot of the embankment, having tumbled more than Ii0 feet. The last twelve feet w'as a sheer drop to a group of boulders. None of the occupants could have fallen all the distance or they would surely have been crushed to death when the oar hit the boulders. boul-ders. In its fall the auto seemed lo have spilled Its occupants along the was'. 1 guess none of them went more than the first 100 feet. Crops ha v been excellent In " Dixie" this season. Mr. Morris reported, and the people are "poor, but happy," as he facetiously put it. |