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Show : LEO HARDING MEETS DEATH IN ACCIDENT Child Falls Underneath Wheel of Farm wagon, Driven by father I-ieo Harding, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Harding of Vineyard, was instantly killed shortly after one o'clock Tuesday afternoon when his head was crushed underneath a large farm wagon. Tho little boy was riding in the wagon with his father. Going down a small sandhill the front end gate became unfastened and the boy fell out, the wheels crushing his head. Mr .Harding stopped (he wagon immediately, but the child was already al-ready dead. According to Mrs. S. H. Blake, neighbors of the Harding family and who saw tho accident, Mr. Harding had just hitched his team to the wagon ready for the afternoon's work. Mrs. Harding came out and notified him that he was wanted on the telephone. With the, hoy in the wagon, he drove his team-on a trot down a small sandhill between the barn and the house where he intended to leave the team while he answered the telephone call. In some way the front end gate of the wagon was jarred loose with the result that tho boy fell underneath under-neath the wheels. The distracted father picked up the child in his amis but life had already al-ready departed. Mr. Harding is a member of the Vineyard ward bishopric. The body was taken to (he Berg Mortuary. |