Show CROSSING R IN CRA CRASH H HIll KILLS Ill S 8 l. l GIRL Boxcars Obscured View of Train Driver of Truck Explains The first traffic fatality in Salt Sal Lake Lako City this year 1 occurred Monday Mon Ion day night when Myrtle Medley edley 17 n daughter of ot W. W C. C Medley SO Paxton Paxton Pax Pax- ton avenue was waa Instantly killed when the truck In which she ahe was wu riding to a dance wa aa struck by a Denver Rio Grande Grands Western passenger passenger pas pas- enger train at the Thirteenth South Sout street grade crossing The The- truck was driven by Hyrum Mitchell 28 of Lambert place There wa was waa a of boxcar boxcars near the crO crowing crossing and 1 J did nut nuts nut's see seeor or hear hr the train Mr Ir Mitchell l 11 said MId Mr Medley and anti I used t to work together and I was heh ln him move o some orne things thing and was vas Ing M MYrtle a lift to the lance dance Mitchell ha has haa a wife and two chil dren His JUs condition Is regarded regard d a as serious and while the only injuries that are apparent aro bruises about abou his head and shoulders Xray ray pictures pic pie tures are being mado to determine his tile exact condition lie He is I. at th the county hospital Mitchell was driving cast east and th the train was as proceeding north just jus ent entering Salt Snit Lake after alter a n. run from Denver Den Engineer Ben Den Rugg re reported reported re re- ported to Deputy Sheriffs D. D S 5 S. S Naylor and C. C J. J Larsen that h he blew his locomotive whistle as th the train approached the crossing bu buthe but the auto driver appeared not to heathe hear hea the warning The Tho train traveled about feet before stopping stopping- after Arter the tho crash The girls girl's father said she left lef home to attend a n dance at the Thirtieth Thir- Thir ward |