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Show tar ibflffiEBS STRUCK BI AUTfl 01! COUNTY IAD VEST OLSPANISH FORK Alda Ludlow, High School Student of Bejamin, Strikes Girl as She Steps From Behind Wagon ACCIDENT SAID TO BE UNAVOIDABLE (Special to the Herald) SPANISH FORK, May 14. Bernice Andrews, five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Andrews of this city, died early Thursday morning as a result of injuries sustained in an auto accident near her home Wednesday afternoon. The little girl had been unconscious since the accident which occured about 4 :30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon when she was struck by an automobile driven by Alda Ludlow, 16-year-old daughter of Walter Ludlow of Benjamin. The accident happened near the Andrews home on the paved county road between Spanish Fork mid the Spanish Fork sugar factory. Little Bernice was riding in a wagon with her father, who was driving home from the field west of the city. Alda Ludlow and her cousin, Kate Ludlow, 16, daughter of Paul Ludlow Lud-low of Benjamin, were oriving a car to their home in Benjamin from the Spanish Fork high school. Vera Hodge, 18, Mildred Cutler, 17, and a Leland girl, all students of the Spanish Fork high school wTere riding in the back seat at the time of the accident. Just as the car was even with the wagon, the little girl had crnwled off the back of the wagon ami stepped right in the way of the automobile. au-tomobile. In an effort to avoid striking the girl, Mitts Ludlow turned sharply, tearing a tire from the car and almost running into a telephone pole. The girl was knocked to the pavement pave-ment where she was picked up by the grief-stricken father and enrried into in-to the home. Dr. J. W. Ilagon of Spanish Fork gave surgical assistance. assist-ance. Miss Ludlow was exonerated of all blame by persons who saw the accident, according to Deputy Sheriffs Sher-iffs Otto Birk and George Davis who investigated the details of the accident Thursday. No inquest will be held. A brother of Alda Ludlow, Daniel Ludlow, Wits killed about a year ago when the school bus from Palmyra driven by him was struck by a train on the' Salt Lake and Los Angeles railroad at a crossing about two miles north of the present accident. |