Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-24 | Page 1 | Sevier, Grand County Deaths Hike Utah Traffic Toll to 90

Sevier Grand County De Deaths Hike Utah Traffic 90 Utah's ULah's t traffic traffic toll Loil for the year went up to Thursday 90 with the death of a California woman in a j Grand county accident and the death of ot a youth in a Sevier county mishap The 90 dead compares with fatalities in fn 1938 t up p to Aug August st 24 a reduction of 29 per cent ry 1 4 t tY Y Youth Found Dead rr In n Overturned Car Ca Card ir VENICE Sevier County William William William Wil Wil- liam Vern Cowley 18 was found dead beneath his overturned automobile automobile au au- near here her early eady Thurs Thurs- day Investigators estimators cre ere unable to immediately immediately im immediately im- im mediately determine what caused Utah's latest traffic fatality but 0 i the automobile which Mr Cowley was driving h had d hurtled over on the highway highway pinning him beneath it He suffered a a a. crushed head and crushed arm The r I youths youth's body was found about 1230 a a. a m m. by a searching party organized by the youths youth's father when the son did not re return return re- re turn urn home after leaving in the aul autom automobile au automobile au- au tom le Tuesday Tue about ut 8 p. p m. m nf Sherif MOAB-Sherif MOAB Sheriff f J. J J. J B. B of 01 l Grand Gland Gl n county Thursday was was attempting attempting attempting at at- tempting to piece together details of a highway mishap which cost the life of a California woman and seriously injured her husband and sister late late Wednesday The mishap occurred l 12 mile miles east of Cisco 75 m miles les northe northeast st o of Moab on highway y 50 which crosses Continued d on oa Page 13 13 Column 2 WOMAN KILLED IN UTAH CRASH Continued from Page On One the desert of oL eastern Utah and western Colorado Mrs Walter J. J Mills of box Santa Maria Cal was killed and andler her ler husband and a sister Mrs Joe Cox of Cedarwood Colo Cob were seriously seriously seriously seri seri- injured Sheriff said the eastbound eastbound east- east bound jound automobile left the highway traveled feet along a barrow pit which paralleled the road then plunged into a foot 15 deep dry wash The accident occurred about p. p m. m Wednesday and Sheriff said Mrs Mills Mills' body was still by the roadside when he arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived at 9 p p. inI mI mI m m. I cannot understand why the driver was unable to stop the automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile during the entire distance it ran along the barrow pit before plunging into the wash Sheriff said He reported the injured were removed to Fruita Colo Cob by a physician summoned from there and md later taken to a Grand Junction Junction Junc tion Colo Cob hospital Mrs Mills' Mills body was taken to the he Stark mortuary In Fruita An Associated ted Press dispatch from rom Grand Junction reported that Joseph Maxwell Salt Lake City salesman found the wrecked automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile and arid its occupants Scene of the accident is about 12 miles west of the Utah-Colorado Utah I. I line me Sheriff said