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Show Offers Sympathy ... " ! r. ..'v .'", ' :. : ..- , ' V I ..- i Little 3-year-old Gary Lee Beardall trys to comfort his aunt, Mrs. Axel Danielson, who is suffering from painful injuries sustained sus-tained in an heroic attempt to save the little boy from a near fatal accident. Springville Woman Hurt in Attempt To Save Nephew from Accident S Mrs. Axel Danielson is still confined to her bed part of the time with injuries she suffered in a freak accident last Thursday when she attempted to rescue her little 3-year old nephew from the cab of a large truck running away backwards into Hobble Creek. The truck had been parked by the boy's father, Max Beardall, in front of the home while he was home for dinner. Unnoticed little Gary climbed into the truck and released the brake. As the car moved backward toward to-ward the creek the child screamed and Mrs. Danielson, aunt, stand- ing a short distance away talking talk-ing to a neighbor, heard the cry and saw the predicament of the child. She ran to the truck and as she took hold of the handle on the door, the rear end of the vehicle ve-hicle went over the creek embankment em-bankment and she was thrown into the waist-deep Hobble Creek water. Mrs. Danielson narrowly escaped death as she was swept approximately approxi-mately 65 feet down the creek under the foot bridge and road bridge, but managed to climb out without aid. She suffered a deep (Continued on page two) Springville Woman Hurt In Attempt To Save Life (Continued from Page One) cut on her left leg, requiring six stitches, also a cracked bone in her ankle, wrenched ligaments and numerous painful bruises and cuts about her body. She was lauded for her efforts in trying to save little Gray of whom she is especially es-pecially fond. Relatives said she has a weak heart and the injuries in-juries plus the exertion and cold plunge in the creek could have been fatal. Officers said that had Mrs. Dan-ielson Dan-ielson not been thrown clear she may have been crushed between the truck and the rock wall of the creek. The little boy was removed from the cab of the truck, none the worse for his experience with the exception of a shaking up and a real scare; Dr. John T. Marshall, local dentist den-tist was one of the first persons at the scene and extracted Gary from the truck cab. To get the truck from the creek, a crane had to be used to lift the rear end while another truck pulled the vehicle forward. |