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Show HANS RIGTRUP BADLY INJURED IN ACCIDENT Hans C. Rigtrup, 55, of Spring-ville, Spring-ville, is in a critical condition in the Richfield hospital as a result of an auto accident near Marysvale , Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock. He , is suffering from a fractured sicull. Frank Riggs, 45, his companion, is also in the hospital with a deep scalp wound and a torn right hand. His condition is not. serious. Rigtrup and Riggs were en route home from Hatchtown with a trailer on the half-ton truck containing con-taining a heifer. When they reached reach-ed a sharp turn in the highway three miles south of Marysvale the trailer failed to make the turn and caused the truck to run into the borrow pit. The car turned over three times and Rigtrup was hurled through the top. His head struck a -rock as he hit the ground, 25 yards be- yond the truck. He was almost j scalped and his skull was severely ! fractured. Riggs was pinned in the j car and was pulled from the wreckage wreck-age by passing motorists and both were rushed to the Richfield hospital hos-pital in an unconscious condition. Rigtrup is one of the largest poultry raisers in Utah county. Riggs is a formeL' resident of Hatchtown. |