Show OLIDAY c CRASHES KILL THREE CAR CA R PLUNGES OFF HIGHWAY INTO IN T 0 RAVINE I Independence ce Day Cay Marred by Fatalities 15 Persons Injured CANYON MISHAP FATAL Auto Accidents Cause Major Number of Casualties Three persons were killed and 15 injured in holiday accidents in Salt Lake City and Utah late Tuesday and p I Wednesday Automobile mishaps were responsible responsible sible for the deaths and injuries to 11 persons The dead Mr and Mrs Nephi W. W Dolt bit both 25 years old Roosevelt avenue Clifford 21 of Paragonah Mr and Mrs Holt HoIt were fatally injured in in- when their car driven by Mr Holt hurtled of off the Parleys Parley's canyon canyon can can- yon highway and plunged nearly feet to the canyon bottom near Suicide Sui Sui- cide rock east of Lookout point at 1240 a. a m. m Wednesday The badly battered bodies of the young foung couple married slightly more than a year were found shortly afterward afterward after after- ward by Deputy Sher Sheriffs Sheriffs' sp A. A Hanks and Leonard Hyland The victims s suffered fractured skulls internal injuries in- in juries uries and broken limbs but their faces aces were not scratched scratch d according to reports of the officers officer Mrs Holt Halt the former Alice June Madsen died before the police ambulance am am- reached the Salt Lake general gen gen- eral cral hospital and her husband succumbed suc sue at a. a m. m ten minutes after fter arrival at the hospital The automobile was dem demolished The couple according to investigating investigating gating officers were returning to Salt Lake CIt City after taking Mrs Soils Halts mother Mrs Essie Essie- Vincent of 1860 Park street to a friends friend's canyon home to spend the holiday Driving at a speed estimated b by Continued from THREE KILLED IN ACCIDENTS Independence Day Marred by Fatalities 15 Persons Injured d S Continued from PUt Pas One officers at about 40 miles mUes an hour Mr Holt failed to negotiate a curve on the road rond at nt a point above the city reservoir and th the machine hurtled into space hitting the side of the moun mountain twice t the tl first st feet catapulting Mr Holt into the hill hill- side Thrown From rom Car Mrs s. Holt was thrown out after the car ear had fallen tallen about l. l feet t according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to the officers The automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile overturned many times On the third somers somersault it hit nose first and landed upside down at which time Iliac officers said the woman was wu thrown out The machine settled seWed in a heap feet from the lower road The accident was wa reported first t to police by Howard Telford who lives Ilves at the reservoir at the mouth of the canyon near the scene Mr Holt 1 Is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Samuel J J. J Holt of 1563 South Main street a brother Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel E. E Holt of Salt Lake and a sister aister Mrs Leon of Logan Mrs Holt Is survived by her parents C C. C C. C Madsen of or Denver Colo Cob and Mrs Vincent of Salt Lake a brother Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieu Lieu- tenant Elwood C Madsen in the air service in Panama and an uncle unde Wallace Bailey of New London Conn The bodies are at the Dc Deseret cret mortuary mortuary mortuary mor mor- pending funeral arrangements Chief Deputy J. J Wallace West of the sheriffs sheriff's office spent Wednesday morning investigating the fatal acci accI- dent Dies DIu In Collision Mr son of Joseph R. R and Harriet Reynolds Reynold of Paragonah Paragonah Paragonah Para Para- gonah was WB killed at 1 a. a m m. m when the car in which he was riding overtUrned overturned overturned over over- turned after colliding with another In canyon Six persons including a brother of or the victim are Bre in a critical condi cond condition tion in a Milford hospital The othera others oth oth- ers era Injured are Thomas Holyoke Inc lac crated skull Buella Holyoke cuts cut and bruises Marie S pley scalp wounds Max Edwards cuts cuts' and bruises Thelma Atkins scalp wounds wound and punctured check cheek The accident occurred InvestigatIng In Ing officers said while the group was returning fr from om m a dance in Hanging Rock in M canyon Further Fur Further ther details of ot the mishap were no not available Struck by Auto Three persons narrowly escape escaped possible death Tuesday at p p. p m sri when a truck driven by James L L. 19 of 1901 West North Temple Tempi street skidded and overturned on a curve at Crand Crandall avenue between Ninth East and Eleventh East streets Mr suffered a deep laceration on the head and Mrs Ellen Adams 19 of South Eleventh East street suffered a compound fracture and a severe laceration on the left le leg Grace Eckert 15 15 of the same at address ad dress was bruised and shaken while Elwood Adams 22 escaped injury The injured were taken to the Sa Salt Lake general hospital by passing mo mo- Norma Norm Tylor 9 of Browning avenue suffered a possible fracture of the left leg and body bruises Tues Tue Tuesday Tues Tues- day at p p. p m. m when she was struck by a machine driven by J. J H. H Harrop Harrop Har Har- rop sop of 1537 Hubbard avenue The Th accident occurred at 1964 South Ninth East street According to witnesses the girl alighted from a southbound bus and ran around the bus directly in the path of the Harrop car Woman Injured Mildred Mott 20 Hubbard avenue ave aye nue flue suffered a probable fractured fracture left ankle Tuesday afternoon when she was struck by an auto at Ninth South and Third East streets as sh she alighted from a street car The auto was wu driven by John Bussell Bus Rus sell 16 South West Wept Temple street police said Russell was arrested ora ona ona on or a charge of or passing a standing street treet tar ear He later was Wa released to h hu father Miss Mott Molt was treated at the emergency erne emer erner- erner S gency hospital and taken to her hornDon horn home Don Kimball 23 of 1432 Eleventh East street was taken to the emergency erne emer- emer gency hospital Wednesday at 93 a. a m rn where he was wa treated for a adeep adeep deep l laceration of his left ankle M Mr Kimball accidentally Injured himself when he cut his ankle with an a awhile ax while chopping wood on a camping trip in Lambs Lamb's canyon Injured by Firecracker Stanley Shields 10 10 son of Mr an and Mrs Charles Shields Downin Downing Downing- ton 1951 avenue suffered a slight abrasion of ot an an eyelid and inflamed left leU eye ey I when fireworks firework ex exploded on the sidewalk sIde side- walk in front of his home the powder striking him in the eye Fred Butcher 2 2 son of ot Mr an and Mrs Fred Butcher West South Sout Temple street suffered mouth burns burn Tuesday evening when he swallowed I potash crystals which his mother had hac placed on a table after treating a wound on her hand He was treated at the Salt Sail Lake Lak county General hospital and later late was Wa removed to his hi His co condition condition con con- was reported not ser serious ous |