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Show AUTO STRIKES POLE; MM BADLY INJURED Companion in Drive Painfully Pain-fully Hurt ; Victims in Hospital. One man waa perhaps fatally injured, another was painfully, but not seriously, injured, and a large section of the territory terri-tory south of Fourteenth South was thrown into darkness aUout 10 o'clock last night, when an automobile driven, by Tony Floor of Garfield plunged into a pole carrying high-tension electric; wires, at a point on the Garfield road about five miles west of State street. In the machine with Floor at the time of the accident was Fete Diamond, 2S years of age, also a resident of Garfield, Gar-field, who was so badly injured that he may not recover. Both men are Greeks. "We were on our way from Garfield," Floor told the police, "and were going at a good rate of speed. There was a machine ma-chine ahead of us and I tried to go around it. Just what happened I do not know, but I think our machine must have struck a rut. At any rate, I lost control con-trol of it and it crashed into the heavy pole at the roadside. Pete was catapulted cata-pulted from the seat over the windshield and struck the post head first. The steering post held me in the seat." The men were brought to the emergency emer-gency hospital by Anton Nelson, proprietor proprie-tor of Nelson's cafe, 15 West Second South street, who, with his family, came upon the scene shortly after the accident. acci-dent. It was found that Diamond had sustained a fracture of the left knee, a dislocated left shoulder and that most of his scalp was literally torn from his skull. He was thought to have suffered possible internal injuries also in the region re-gion of the chest. Floor was found to be suffering from a badly wrenched back and shoulder, and numerous lacerations about the head and chest. According to the sheriff's office, so great was the impact of the auto against the pole that the latter snapped off, bringing down all the wires and throwing a large section of the county Into darkness. The Salt Lake sheriff's office, working work-ing in conjunction with Sheriff Charles Nalder of Layton, is conducting an investigation in-vestigation into a mysterious automobile accident which occurred early yesterday morning at Secrist hill, between Farming-ton Farming-ton and Kaysville. The only clue to the identity of the occupants or either machine ma-chine is said to be a blood-stained coat, hat and a bottle partly filled with liquor. The coat and hat are said to have been found in one of the cars, while the liquor was fownd in the roadway near by. At a late hour last night the officers said that they had not been able to learn who the jpecupants of either machine were, nor ItPw the accident happened. hap-pened. It was learned that one of tho cars was the property of John Little of 806 Arapahoe avenue. "Accompanied by Layton Howlett of Sf.3 Arapahoe avenue and Tom Mathews of 155 North West Temple street," said Mr. Little last night, "I went to Ogden Wednesday night. We left the car standing stand-ing in front of the interurban depot and T left my hat and coat on the seat. Then we went to a near-by restaurant and upon our return, about 11 o'clock, we found that someone had stolen the machine. This morning I discovered my auto between Farmington and Kaysville, battered to pieces. I have no idea as to who was driving the machine at the time of the crash. The coat is mine, but the blood on it belonged to others unknown un-known to me. I understand that the other machine is listed as belonging to L. W. Brant of 57 C street, but I have made no inquiries about It. When we returned to Salt Lake this morning. I reported the matter to "both the police and the sheriff." Mr. Howlett substantially substan-tially corroborated Mr. Little's statement, while Mr. Mathews could not be reached last night. "I have an automobile," said Mr. Brant, "but it is only a small roadster and not a car such as Is described in connection connec-tion with this matter. I positively do not know a thing about this accident, as I was at home and so was my car. I understand one of the cars bore a number num-ber identical with the number on my machine, but It seems to me there must either be duplicate numbers or that the report is in error." According to Deputy Sheriff A. M. Lamb of Lavton, who was sent to investigate in-vestigate for Sheriff Nalder, a large auto truck appeared on the1 scene shortly after the accident and loaded the wreckage of one of the cars, which was presumably brought to Salt Lake. The blood-stained coat indicated that soi-.eone had been seriously injured, but the officers say they have been unable to learn what disposition was made of such persons, as no trace of them could be found at any of the local hospitals. |
