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Show YOUNG PEOPLE MIRACUOUSLY ESCAPE DEATH " Springville Girl Sustains Bad ' ' Lacerations in Face in ' Auto Accident. i , y A narrow escape from death'was experienced by two Springville people peo-ple when the small coupe in which they were riding ran into an east-bound east-bound freight train nt Springville Tuesday night about 10 :30 o'clock. Elsin Darker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harker, sustained several lacerations about tho face, while Milan Beardnll, a Springville barber, bar-ber, who was driving the car escaped without a scratch. The right side wheels of the coupe and the running bonrd were demolished. demol-ished. The upper glass in the windshield wind-shield was broken and the glass In the right door was also broken. The accident happened as the car was going south on the state highway near the Jefferson school in Springville. A long eastbouud Denver and Rio Grande' train was crossing the road. More than half the length of the train had passed across the highway. For some cause or another neither ono of the occupants of the coupe are said to have seen the passing train until their nuro struck it and in some manner was caught on a coal car. The auto was dragged along with the train over the cattle guards which were torn to pieces. More than 25 yards of the wires to the interlocking signal station were pulled up and broken. .The auto was not released from the train until the. conlcnr to which it had become ntached jumped the rails and bumped along the ties. The engineer did not realize anything any-thing was wrong until the car had run on the ties for a distance of several sev-eral blocks. . Miss Harker was rushed to the office of Dr. John R. Anderson where her injuries were nttended to I after which she was taken to her! home, , |