| Show MISH PS Kill fiVE MEN IN UTAH 1 Foot 1000 Fall From Zion Park Mountain Kills Los Angeles Man Terrific heat automobile accidents and other mishaps combined to cause eight deaths in Utah western Wyoming and Idaho over the weekend week week- end Five were killed in Utah two t In n west western m V and one in Idaho The dead Floyd Head 43 Salt Lake proprietor tor or of the Belmont hotel South State street cardiac failure allure resulting result result- ing ng from heat exhaustion Ralph Ross 34 South Sixth West Vest street fractured skull suffered In an automobile accident on Twenty- Twenty first South street Heber George Bott 23 Brigham City fractured skull suffered In an automobile accident In Sardine canyon can can- you yon Oland Cline 23 23 Bear Boar River liver City fractured skull suffered In n the same me accident L Lynn nn Eastman 18 Evanston Wyo drowned in Bear river Hershel 18 Evanston com com- Continued on race Pace Sixteen HEAT MISHAPS KILL fiVE MEN IN UTAH Continued front from Po Pue e Nine panion of Eastman drowned In tn Bear river Don Orcutt 24 Los Angeles killed in a foot 1000 fall ot off the slopes of Cathedral mountain Zion national park George 48 foreman of or orthe the Utah Construction company's House creek ranch near Twin Falls Idaho killed when he was thrown from his car near a a. railroad underpass underpass underpass under under- pass near Twin Falls Sunday SECOND HEAT VICTIM I With Mr Heads Head's death the heat wave had claimed its Us second victim within a a. week In Salt Lake Several hours after he returned to his hotel Sunday afternoon from rom a walk through the hot streets Mr Head collapsed and died from Crom heart failure Induced by heat exhaustion His death was the second within the week William Hill 64 well known Salt Lake restaurant man of Third avenue overcome Friday while watching the Covered Wagon Days parade died In the city emergency emergency emer gency hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage hemorrhage hem caused by the heat Mr Head also operated the Leeds apartments 44 Third East street He formerly was organist at the old American theater where he was em cm until 1929 He had lived In Salt Lake five years coming here from Crom Pocatello Idaho He also operated oper motion picture theaters In BIl lings hugs Mont and Ft Worth Texas He was born in Iowa September September Sep 28 28 1887 Surviving arc are the widow Mrs Mac Mae Barrett Head three children Mary Lou C Cyrilla Audry Audr and Edward Head Jr all of oC Salt Lake a sister Mrs Lulu M. M Moore Mont and three brothers broth broth- ers D D. C. C Head Salt Lake M. M C. C Head Casper W Wyo o and V W. W P. P Head Los Angeles HITS lilTS TELEPHONE POLE Mr Ross was killed when a telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone pole struck by the automobile he was driving crashed down on him himIn himIn himin In front of West Vest Twenty first South street late Saturday Miss Mabel Phillips South SouthWest SouthWest SouthWest West Temple street passenger in the machine suffered a fractured rib cuts and bruises about the head Witnesses reported to Deputy Sheriff Sher Sher- iff HC J. J W. W West Vest that Mr Ross was driving about 40 miles mUes an hour in inan inan inan an easterly direction on the street and swerved abruptly to avoid striking striking striking ing another car backed from a private private vate driveway on the south side of Twenty first South street Russell Rigby Magna driver of the second car was held blameless In connection with the crash Mr Ross' Ross skull was fractured when the severed pole crashed down on his head Miss Phillips was taken talen talento to her home where she received medical medical med med- ical attention Mr Ross was pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- dead when he reached the Salt Sait Lake county general hospital The victim was born in Denver Deliver June 18 1897 He was a World war veteran Surviving arc his mother Mrs Jennie Cimini Riga one brother broth broth- er Angelo Riga and eight sisters Mrs Frank Latino Catherine Lucile Louise Clara Victoria and Grace Riga all of Salt Lake and Mrs Joe Bonacci of Helper WAS NOTED CLIMBER IBER Mr Orcutt only known conqueror of oC the Great White Throne worlds world's greatest monolith in Zion national park was VaS killed when he fell 1000 feet to his death from Crom the steep sides of Cathedral mountain Saturday His body crushed and broken was found a mile and a half from the west rim early Sunday b by rangers Details of the fatal fall tall will never be known The victim had decided to scale Cathedral mountain as a preparatory to the attempted at at- tempted climb of West Temple mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain never ne climbed by white man On June 30 Mr Orcutt achieved the distinction of being the first white man to scale the Great White Throne He later pronounced the climb cUmb the most dan dangerous erous in his entire entire en tire lire mountain climbing experience At one juncture he narrowly escaped death when he slipped down the monoliths monolith's side to the brink of or a precipice The victims victim's body was taken to Cedar City where it Is being being be be- ing held pending word from relatives Mr Bott and Mr were killed Eugene Bott Boll 19 was critically injured and two other persons were reported recovering Monday as a a. result re sult suIt of an automobile accident on a hairpin turn in Sardine canyon near Logan Sunday at 1 30 a. a m. m Both the elder Bott and were instantly killed They suffered crushed skulls when the automobile overturned Eugene Bott driver ol 01 the machine suffered a broken back Melvin Bankhead 21 and Crosby Bankhead 18 suffered cuts and bruises WENT TO SLEEP Patrolman Harry Clark who investigated investigated said the driver apparently went to sleep at the wheel as the car was being driven at a comparatively comparatively moderate speed As it reached I the turn it Is believed to have gone over o the side of the road and rolled down the bank bani almost 2000 feet The young men were returning to their homes after having atten attended ed a dance In Logan The Bott and Bankhead youths are arc brothers their parents being George H. H and Nancy Bankhead Bott of or Brigham Cit City Young was wasa a son of Joseph and Selma Anderson of Bear River City I Close companions for years young oung Eastman and both of Evanston Evanston Evanston Evans- Evans ton were drowned together in Bear river 20 miles from Evanston Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- urda night suffered a cramp while in the water and Eastman attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to rescue him Neither could swim and both went under Artificial respiration was wa unsuccessfully attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted after the bodies were ered was a native of Lehl Lehi and Eastman was born in Evanston Mr Mt was killed when he was thrown from the automobile In which he was riding near the underpass under pass of the Oregon Short Line railroad railroad rail rail- road on the Wells Rogerson-Wells branch branchat at 8 p p. p m m. m Sunda Sunday He apparently lost control of oC the car which left the therOld road rOld and overturned Mr Mull en was vas foreman of or the Utah Construction company's House creek creel ranch near Twin Falls He was returning from a visit to the San Jacinto ranch of or the company compan in Nevada Nerada He was at one time a member memo mem ber of oC the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and was a famous Camous broncho buster SUFFERS BROKEN SHOULDER Mrs C. C J. J Hogan 43 43 of Eureka suffered a a. broken should r several fractured ribs and probable internal Injuries shortly after aeter noon Monday when the automobile in iii which she was riding collided with another at atthe atthe the thc Intersection of or Fourth South and Fourth East s streets I The automobile driven by C. C J. J Hogan Ho Ho- gan 45 the injured womans woman's husband hus- hus band collided with machine driven by W W. C. C Riggs 37 of 1278 lEast East Seventeenth South street ac according according according ac- ac cording to police reports The Hogan I car was being driven north on Fourth East street while Riggs was driving west on Fourth South street Mrs Hogan was taken to the city emergency hospital by her husband following the collision and later was removed to the Salt Lake county general general gen gen- eral hospital Both Hogan and Riggs escaped injury |
