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Show NINE INJURED IN J NI0TDHM1SHAPS j Victims Cut and Bruised in Five Automobile Accidents. i l-'ic motor accidents, due to slrpnevy irasT.c conditions, occurred yesterday in ' Salt Lake. As the result, four women and five men are suffering from lacerations lacera-tions and bruises. In four of the accidents acci-dents automobiles crashed together. One was due to a motorcycle skidding Into an automobile and throwing Us rider to the pavement. The most serious mishap occurred at 1:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon at Vlrst South and Third Bast streets, when an automobile driven by A'. A. Hansen, a taxi driver, collided with a Halt Lake Transportation company taxicab, driven by It. J. Firchell. 22 years of age. Three unidentified women with Hansen sustained sus-tained lacerations of thr inces aiidtoiM and were taken to lioly Cross hospital, where their wounds were treated. Mrs J I. Ucrron, 12S"j West l".rst South street, who was on her way to an undertaking establishment to make funeral fu-neral arrangements for her husband, v, ho died Thursday night, 5 m V,,. tvtlh Blrchell, and sustained body lis.. Birche)! was struck In the pit of he stomach by the steering wheel of 1 i.s machine and sustained possible i iter ua inlurles besides cuts on his face ana hands, lie was taken to the cmergcncl hospital. Hansen sustained a silent out on his hand. , i . According to the police report and that of witnesses, Hirchel! was driving his machine north on Third Hast street when tho collision occurred as Hansen came from tho west on First South street. Birchell's machine was badly smashed, the left rear wheel being torn olf, the left fender bent, the lop smashed, the motor hood telescoped and the wlndshie d broken. Hansen's car was not badly damaged, ouiy the right rear wheel being smashed. ' ' Birchell, the most seriously injured, was taken to his room at tho Wilcox hotel after receiving treatment at the emergency emer-gency hospital. A. W. Mam, 1172 Hollywood avenue, sustained a wrenched back, skin abrasions abra-sions on his right ebow and Injuries to his abdomen when the motorcycle he was riding at Fifth South and Seventh Kast streets yesterday -evening at 5 o'clock, skidded and side-swiped a passing ayto-rnobile. ayto-rnobile. His motorcycle was badly damaged dam-aged and he was stunned by his fall to the pavement. The automobile -k as undamaged. un-damaged. Mawn was removed to the emergency hospital. While driving slowly south on N'inth East street at the Intersection of Fourth South street, an auto, said by the police to have been driven by F. W. Ottterstrom, 1347 South Fifteenth East street, struck mall cart No. 63, occupied by R. Ness, 91 U East Fourth South street. Tho mail cart was overturned and Mr. Ness thrown to the pavement. He was taken to his home. An examination by a physician showed only a few scalp wounds. Burr Frost, residing at 1970 T.-addley court, told the police the automobile was stopped in its own length after it struck the cart. Eleanor P.ohenkohl, 21 years of ago. DCS Harrison avenue, was struck by an automobile, said by the police to have been driven by John II. Huber. 1020 "West Second North street,- an employee of the Boston store, as she was crossing the street on Second South street between Wain and State streets in front of the Wilson hotel. She was taken to the emergency hospital by Fred Edgington, a public chauffeur. Although slightly stunned by a blow on the back of the head, the woman revived after a short treatment and was removed to her home. A light delivery truck, driven by V.. B. Spencer, 324 L, street, and owned by the Barker Bakery company, was struck by another machine at the intersection of Fourth South and Main streets last night at 8 o'clock, and pushed fifty feet. According Ac-cording to the police, the car which struck the bakery machine had license No. 18193. The license number is listed under the name of Walter Glenn, 353 Fifth avenue. After striking the bakery truck the automobile auto-mobile did not stop, but conLinued soutli on Main street. Spencer was uninjured, but the rear wheel of his machine was smashed. CI. It. North, charged with driving an automobile while intoxicated, was given ten days in the city jail yesterday by Judge W. H. Wllkhui. North was arrested ar-rested by Garage-master W. E. Jukes after he is said to have jumped the curbing curb-ing with his maciine, smashing a blcvcle In his path and coming to stop within a few feet of a barber shop window at Twenty-first South and Fifth East streets. |