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Show BODIES OF AUTO ACCIDEIIT VICTIMS HE II STATE III TABERNACLE MOflDAY Other High School Students Injured In Tragic Auto Wreck Friday Near Payson Reported Improving Double funeral services will be held in the Utah stake tabernacle Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Marba Andelin and Nina McGuire, the two Provo high school girls who were accidentally killed near Payson Friday afternoon while on their way to the Provo-Juab basketball game at Nephi. The funeral promises to be one of the largest attended ever held in Provo. The students of the high school will be excused from their classes to attend the services, according to a decision made by the board of education of the city schools Saturday. Such genuine and whole-hearted sympathy exists in the city towards the families of the accident victims, that it is believed the tabernacle will be thronged to overflowing by the many mourners. The accident struck so close to the heart strings of every father and mother in Provo that it is a community tragedy more than a personal disaster. The bodies will lie in state at the stake tabernacle from Monday forenoon at 11 o'clock until 1:30 o'clock, when they may be viewed by schoolmates and friends. The music department of the high school will furnish the music. Pallbearers will be selected from among the schoolmates of the two girls. In respect to the family of Postmaster J. P. McGuire, the postoffice department has authorizes the closing of the Provo postoffice at 1:45 o'clock Monday afternoon until the end of the services. Reports from the Payson hospital late Saturday evening eve-ning stated that a decided improvement was noted in the condition of Beth Wright, the young girl who sustained the most severe injuries in the accident with exception of the two who were killed. Although she has a severe fracture of the skull, the attending physicians are now firmly of the opinion that she will recover from her injuries. She is still at the hospital as are also her sister Addie, who sustained a fractured left shoulder, and her step-brother, Leland Bown, who sustained minor bruises to his face. The three youths are the children of William and Hattie Wright Bown, 376 North University avenue. Bess Boyden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alma Boyden, 281 North First West street, was the least injured of the girls. She sustained bruises on the left side of her forehead and minor cuts on her elbow. She was taken to her home in Provo four hours after the accident by her parents. As told in the Evening Herald Fri day, the accident happened when a team of horses driven by John Done, 64, a farmer of Payson, became be-came frightened by an Orem passenger pass-enger train approaching from the rear and jumped against the car driven- by, Addie Wright, in which the five girls the young man. The accident took place at the bottom of the hill immediately east of Payson about 3:20 o'clock Friday afternoon. after-noon. The complete details of the accident acci-dent will never be known. Everything Every-thing happened so quickly and so unexpectedly that no one, not even-the even-the victims of the accident, seem to know anything about in. only that there was an awful accident. People who arrived on the scene of the accident immediately after it occurred told conflicting stories. One declared that he saw the car turn over three times. Another said that the car never turned over at all. One said that the left horse leaped right into the back of the car and over the back sent. Another declared as emphatically that the horse was only on the left running board of the car. "There was just a crash and then it was all over," said Leland Bown when asked how it happened. "I don't know what took place. No, I can't tell whether tho car tipped over or not." Bess Boyden was equally uncertain uncer-tain as to the details of the acci dent. She is of the opinion, however, how-ever, that the horse did not come inside in-side of the car. , '.My God, I'll never get over this," moaned Mr. Donn. driver of the team figuring in the accident. After Mr. Done had visited the hospital to se how the injured were progressing, he went to the scene of the accident in bis automobile. He was seen there by a Herald reporter. re-porter. His head was resting heavily heav-ily in the palms of his hands while he swayed back and forth, bemoaning bemoan-ing the sad tragedy. "My God. how will I ever forget this scene'.'" he grieved. "Why should I have this terrible thing come into my old life, Why should such beautiful young girls come to such a sad ending? "Everything happened so extremely extreme-ly fast that I can't tell exactly what took place. I was driving peacefully along when all of a sudden sud-den the horses plunged to one side right into the approaching automobile. auto-mobile. I did not hear the Orem train whistle so I think they were frightened when the train went over the viaduct. I was on the wagon but son found myself on the side of the road. How I got there I don't know. I must have fallen. It. took me so unawares I don't know how it really did happen. "No. the automobile was nut speeding. I really can't tell how fast it was going, but I imagine it came along in a moderate speed." liappy and joyous over the pros-ports pros-ports of an auto ride over the paved highway to Nephi and anticipating a good time at the last league basketball bas-ketball game at Nephi as well as later ut the annual junior prom, of the Juab high school, the five girls and young Leland Bown left their homes on the beautiful springlike Friday afternoon. The girls had prepared a luncheon which was to be enjoyed before the basketball game. Addie Wright was at the wheel with her step-brother Leland Bown beside her. In the back seat from left to right were Marba Andelin, Nina McGuire, Beth Wright and Bess Boyden. Little dreaming of the tragls calamity that awyiiited them, the students joked and laughed and drank in the wonderful scenery of the drive as the car leisurely passed through Springville, Spanish Fork and Salem. They had left early in the afternoon so that there would be no need for any hurry. They were approaching the hill east of Payson and would soon be in that community. . Then, crash ! Piercing shrieks penetrated pen-etrated the air. The car stopped abruptly in a high embankment to the side of the road. Other travelers hurried to the accident cur. Among the first to arrive were the members of the Provo high school basketball team. They found that the windshield had been torn lose on the left side of the car. The top had caved in. A ghastly scene was beheld inside in-side the car. Bleeding profusely from cuts about the face and necks were the four girls. Death had already al-ready come to Marba and Nina. Beth was unconscious), while Bess was stunned. What had happened? The correct details of the tragedy will never be known. The suddenness of the disaster dis-aster so completely stunned all of the principals in the accident that they failed to realize what had taken place. . The most plausible interpretation gathered from various persons who rushed to the aid of the injured is as follows: Frightened by the Orem train approaching ap-proaching from the rear, the horses driven by Mr. Done became frightened fright-ened and jumped -right into the Bown car just theni even with the team. The left horse jumped onto the left fender of the car breaking down the windshield and the top of the cor. The wagon tongue pierced through the steering wheel knocking out a small piece and striking Addie. the driver, in the left shoulder, causing a fracture. The horse then reared in the air and is believed to have McGwire girl in the jaw with the come down just in time to strike the wagon tongue and breaking the neck of the Andelin girl with the neck yoke. It is also believed that the horse struck the McGuire girl in the head with his hoofs. Marba Andelin sustained a broken neck, a laceration to the jaw and a broken right hand. Besides the broken jaw, Nina McGuire also sustained a fractured left arm and numerous laceratious about the bead. Nina McGuire was born In Frovo, March 22, 1!MIX. She Is survived by her parents, four brothers nud two sisters. Jack. James, Ray, Dorothy. Kniui ami J. Paul McGuire, nil of Provo; alau by. her paternal grand- father. S. E. McGuire. Daniels. Wnsatch county and her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Law-rence Anderson of Provo. Marbff Andelin 'was horn In Provo, January 20, 11)08. She is survived sur-vived by her parents, three brothers broth-ers and one sisteft. Aubrey O. Andelin. An-delin. Tdaho FnUn;'Mrs. Clyde F. Hansen nnd LeTrenue Andelin. Salt Lake City; Deleee Andelin. on n mission In Lon-j Reach. ( 'a I., nnd Wilford Aiidcliu, Provo. |