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Show WOMAN KILLED IN CAR CRASH ON STATE ROAD One dead and four injured is the toll of an automobile accident which occurred on the state highway on Provo Bench, about six miles north iif I'nivo. at 1 :1( o-'clock Sunday afternoon, when a- car driven by Snmnel Hadfield, 57, of 1251 War-nick War-nick avenue, Salt Lake City, skidded on the west pavement and struck n car driven hy M. B. Cutler, 74, of 444 East Third North street, Provo. Dead In Back Seat-Mrs. Seat-Mrs. Mary Forkuer, S3, wife of U. V. Forkuer of Los Angeles, was touud dead in the back seat of the ,ur driven by Mr. Hadfield, immediately immed-iately following the crash. Mrs. Samuel Hadfield, wife of the driver, suffered severe cuts and bruises about the head and body; Edwin Lougden, 24, of 125 K street, Salt Lake City, suffered deep lacerations about the hands; Mrs. Longdcn, lis wife, was bruised about the legs and may have received internal injuries, in-juries, and Miss Clara Lougden, 14, sister of Edwin, was thought to hove sustained internal injuries. The dead woman's bodr and tht injured were taken to the Alrd h-v-pitdl iu Provo hy O. H. Ivory, 1021 Laird avenue, Salt Lake City, who was one o the first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Post mortem namlnation revealed the probability prob-ability that the death of Mrs. Fork-ner Fork-ner was caused by a fractured skull, indicated by a severe bruise on the temple. This was not at first discovered, dis-covered, and it was though for a time that heart failure was the cause o death. Investigation of the accident hy Deputy Sheriffs B. F. Holier and Otto Birk, and County Attorney I. E. Broekbank, showed that Mr. Cutler, Cut-ler, accompanied by his wife, was driving north, when he decided to ( turn to go south. Believing that he ( had time to cross the pavement before the approaching car driven by Mr. Hadfield arrived, he made u sharp turn, but not until Hadfield was too close to avoid t lie crash, j Upon seeing that he was not going I to clear the Cutler car Hadfield applied his brakes, which caused his . i-ar to skid into the Cutler car, striking strik-ing it broudside. Three Escape Injury Mr. and Mrs. Culler, and Mr. Hadfield Had-field escated injurey. Mrs. Forkuer had come to U'iu lust Thursday to visit with he.' tlnugliter, Mrs. J. W. Zubell, win lives ut Steel City. As she passed through on a stage line ThursduV she saw her daughter am", waved u her That was the last time Mrs. '"Iicll saw her mother alive. In ndilltlnn to Mrs. .obeli she is survived sur-vived hy Knottier daughter, Mrs. Hooper of Nevada, and one sou Vhl-wln Vhl-wln WciHu of Provo, alt the ctiil-'Iri'n ctiil-'Iri'n being of u former murniihJ to Waller Henry Hill, formerly of linker City, Oregon. The futility came to (his country 'mm England about .six years ago. The body was taken iu charge l'.v the Rerg Mortuary, pending word froin the husband. The injured persons have been removed re-moved to their homes. |