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Show BIER STRUCK f STREET ESR Aged Man Sustains Severe Injuries When Buggy Is Smashed. Richard Mills, 85 years of age, a retired re-tired farmer residing1 at Centerville, sustained sus-tained lacerations on his head and a possible pos-sible fracture of the skull when his buggy was struck by an outbound Centerville street car yesterday evening at Centerville. Center-ville. Mr. Mills was Riven first aid in Centerville and then brought to the K D. S. hospital in Salt Lake. According to the story of witnesses of the collision, the elderly man failed to hear the approaching street car, and when It neared him drove Ills horse and I buggy directly on the tracks. The motor-man motor-man of tho car had nearly h topped his vehicle when the shock occurred. Witnesses Wit-nesses nay Mr. Mills was not thrown from tho buggy, but fell while attempting to step to the ground. The buggy was badly damaged. "When he fell from the rear end of a brick wagon which he was riding near his home while on his way from school yesterday afternoon, Harold Uerg. 8 years of age, son of Mrs. Etta Jarman, McClelland avenue, sustained a fracture of the skull. He was taken to the county j hospital, where an examination disclosed I that, while the Injury was serious, the ! boy would probably recover. W. Mills, 42 years of ng suffered the loss of the tip of the second finger on his right hand yesterday evening when It wn fflliphf in ha nrliiflnir nii I n a. was operating at the Grocer Printing company, 212 South West Temple street. His Injury was treated at the emergency hospital and he was removed to his home, 17 South West Temple street. |