Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 1 | Auto Kills Girl and S. L. Man

AN 6 C J ta II ilia II M SIX OTHERS IN fATAl CRASH SUrfER HURTS V. V Eckman Salesman DEATH VICTIM HAD FAMILY IN CITY Driver of Wrecked Machine Machine Ma Ma- chine Believed to Have Havo Been Blinded by Hea Head Headlights Headlights lights of Other Car Car- LOGAN LOGA Dec 21 Two Two persons were killed and six persons Injured when an automobile ran off bif the road near l last night The dead Vittor Eckman Lincoln car tar saleman sale sale- man manof of Salt Lake who died from froma broken back Miss R Rachael chael Meyrick nurse of Logan city schools who wl also died from a broken back c. c The Injured M. M S S. S Riley representative of ot Ford Motor compa company y in Utah and Idaho back wrenched Lee Jones Logan city representative representative represent represent- of ot the Ford Motor company Vance salesman of ot Bris- Bris ham liani City formerly of at Salt Lake Loke Miss Corinne Jensen health nurs of the- the Cache county Miss l Lindsay Miss Jones Eckman was a a. resident of Salt alt Lake residing at 35 Logan aye aye- due nue ue He lIe is married and has two children one two years ears of or age and the other only eleven en months old Ho lIe was a salesman for tor the car In northern Utah and Idaho Eckman was driving the car on th the Logan Logan-Hyrum road on the way to a a. party As tho motorists reached 1 Millville Ec e. e EcKman man became blinded from the glaring lights of ofa ofa a a. passing motor and ran off oft the road The car turned over several times time It came to a stop top against a pole at which time Miss Meyrick was Instantly killed Eckman Eckman Eck Eck- j I man was picked up and taken to the hospital at Logan where he died a little later Riley who was formerly of ot Salt L Lake and who is said now to DO tie living in Logan suffered z a Ii wrenched back and is in the hos hos- pital pita was also badly bruised He was formerly assistant manager of ot the local branch branC of ot theFord tho the Ford Motor 1 compa company compan and Is now manager of the tho Pea 11 Automobile company at Brigham City Misses Jensen Jones and Lindsay Lindsay Lind Lind- I say all an said to be bo residents of Lo Log Lo Log g gan n n. n were badly shaken up and slightly bruised The accident oc occurred occurred oc- oc curs ed about o'clock last night The police pollee claim that liquor was found in the tho car An inquest is being beIng be be- be being ing held Iteld this afternoon IDAHO BANKER BANK E KILLED WHEN MACHI E SKIDS IDAHO FALLS Ida Dec 21 W W. A Davis cashier of ot the First National bank of ot Roberts Ida was Instantly killed and Dean Whitman of ot Roberts Robert was seriously injured when Davis' Davis car skidded into the ditch at nt an earl early hour this morning The Tho accident nt occurred near the tha Menan l depot at Davis und and Whitman Whitman Whitman Whit Whit- man were en route home from Rex Rex- burg A tire came oft off a rear wheel l throwing the car into tho the ditch ditch Whitman was taken to a 1 RIgby ho hospital hos hoS- pita pital where ho he is still unconscious COUSIN CONTESTS WILL LOS ANGELES Dec Dee 21 A 21 A con contest test to set aside the will vIll In which th the late Sarah P. P Livingston of ot Redondo Redondo Re- Re dondo near here bequeathed an es estate estate es- es tate valued at between and to the tho board of oC foreign missions of ot the Presbyterian church and the American Baptist Missionary Missionary Mission Mission- ary union has been ben filed tiled in probate court b by Isaac W. W Dyer of ot Portland Maine a cousin of the h dec deceased eC