Show Three Die in Traffic Train rain Accidents To ToMar Mar Utah Holiday States State's Highway Toll Climbs to 82 With T Two o July Fatalities Transient I Killed in Railway Mishap Utah with three deaths death took its place Saturday in the na nations nation's nations nation's na- na tion's parade of holiday tragedies two tragedies two of the deat deaths s being charged to the un unappeasable appeasable traffic account and the third involving involving involving in- in a transient and a railroad train Elsewhere in the country fires and kindred ac accidents accidents accidents ac- ac were vere pushing the total up to the deaths the National Safety council has estimated will follow in the wake of the weekend weekend weekend week week- end celebrations Utah victims were Merlin L. L Pope 3 35 North Ogden Ogden Og- Og den who died of traffic crash injuries Friday at 10 p. p m. m Mrs Margaret Anderson 54 Monticello who died in a Price city hospital of injuries suffered when a vehicle plunged from the road into int a canyon A transient identified as Patrick Kenneth McGraw 47 believed to tobe tobe tobe be from Park City injured fatally fatally fatally fa fa- fa- fa tally when struck by a train at Ogden I Traffic Toll lifts 82 itt ic de deaths r raised i ed Utah Utah's f year to 82 nine more mor more than the 73 recorded at this time last year Weber county's toll toIl stood at six one more than on July 5 last year The Carbon coun county y death was the third for forthe forthe forthe the year the same as for the corresponding corresponding corresponding cor cor- responding period last year Meanwhile a year old Riverdale Riverdale Riverdale Riv- Riv resident told Ogden police he was the driver of a car can that killed an Ogden pedestrian in a accident Thursday night Special to The Telegram PRICE PRICE One One person was dead Saturday and two others were injured in an Independence day accident on highway 50 near Windy park a mile west of the mouth of Price canyon Plunges Into Canyon The victim was Mrs Margaret Anderson 54 Monticello who died in Price city hospital at 6 p. p m. m Frid Friday y two and a half hours after the up pick-up truck in which she was riding plunged over a foot embankment in the can can- yon She died of a skull fracture Internal in internal internal in- in injuries and compound fracture of the left arm Injured are Arthur Anderson 55 h her r husband and Mrs Lorraine Lorraine Lorraine Lor Lor- raine Winger 19 their daughter who suffered head cuts and shock Mrs Wingers Winger's condition was re reported reported reported re- re ported good Saturday The accident occurred Sergeant J. J L. L Sullivan of the state highway highway highway high high- way patrol said when the Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson truck skidded in gravel while negotiating a curve Plunges Off Road In attempting to correct the skid Mr Anderson lost control o othe of the ehi vehicle le Ie and it plunged down cont Continued on Pare Pape Three uJ Column u Two T Traffic Rail Mishaps Kill ill Three in Utah Continued from Pa Par Page One Ones the he canyon sto stopping ping just short o ohe of the he river The group was erf ed route to Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den to join Mrs Wingers Winger's husband Special to The Telegram OGDEN OGDEN Crashing Crashing his automobile automobile automo- automo bile Ue into a parked machine Merin Merlin Merlin Mer- Mer lin in L. L Pope 35 North Ogden was wa dead Saturday of injuries suffered Friday at 1008 p. p m. m Traffic Patrolmen H. H K Keeter and Ralph Morley said the victim was vas traveling north on Washington boulevard at an estimated speed of 60 to 65 miles an hour when he ht struck truck the parked car occupied by Mr and Mrs J. J A. A Blackfoot Blackfoot Black- Black foot oot Idaho The speeding car they said knocked the parked machine feet but failed to cause injury tche to tc the he couple who ware were visiting Mrs B. B Burningham Washington boulevard Mr Pope suffered a fractured skull kull and other injuries He was born January 30 1906 at t Ashland Kan a son of Fred R. R and nd Annie L. L Armstrong Pope For Tor 15 years ye rs he had a resided r s ded at Ogden moving to to North Ogden only seven months ago He maried married mar- mar ned ried Gladys Marsh at Ogden May 8 1940 Mr Pope was vas employed by Ketchum Builders' Builders Supply company com com- pany any and previously had been a brakeman for the Union Pacific and nd Utah-Idaho Utah Central railroad companies Surviving are his widow his father ather and stepmother of Ogden and nd five stepbrothers and stepsisters stepsisters step- step sisters Asters Lavell Smith of Missoula Mont Ray and John Clawson and Mrs Harold H. H Hudson of Ogden Charles Clawson Wash i in n g t ton o n D. D C. C and George Clawson Evanston Evanston Ev- Ev anston Wyo Funeral Set for Monday Funeral services will be conducted conducted con- con ducted Monday at 2 p. p m. m in the Lindquist and Sons funeral chapel at t Ogden by Bishop William G. G Demik of Ogden Eighteenth L D S ward Friends may call at the home of f his father Twenty-ninth Twenty street reet Sunday afternoon n and evening evening eve- eve ning ing and Monday until noon and andt at t the mortuary chapel until time of f services OGDEN A switching ching locomotive locomotive tive ve or moving freight car Saturday Saturday Satur- Satur day ay at 1 a. a m. m struck struck- and killed a transient tentatively identified as John ohn 50 as he was walking on n the Union Pacific Railroad corn corn- any tracks near Thirtieth street in n the Ogden union railroad depot yards ards The victims victim's body was discovered discovered ered red shortly after the accident by y P. P W. W Turner yardmaster and C. C D Farley and Glen A. A Chandler switchmen Death was pronounced accidental tal al by Charles G. G Cowl Cowley y Ogden city ity judge and M. M Blame Peterson assistant county attorney who acted act act- ed d as coroners A bearing the name and nd social security number but buto no o address was the basis for the identification Detectives D George Ge rge I Theobald and H. H G. G Allred of the Ogden police department said The body Is at the Kirkendall- Kirkendall Darlings Darlings- mortuary pending location location loca- loca tion ion of relatives Special to The Telegram OGDEN June 5 5 f Mathews Mathews Math- Math ws 23 of Riverdale was being held eld in Ogden jail without bail Saturday as police investigated the he fatal traffic accident in which involved he ie was Mathews walked into the police station tation Friday night and said he was the driver of the automobile that lat killed Fredrick Andrew Taylor Tay- Tay lor br or 74 of 2779 Grant avenue nearly early 24 hours earlier Police Captain Dewey Hawkins said aid he would present facts Inthe in inie inthe the ie case to the county attorney and nd ask that an involuntary man- man manslaughter manslaughter slaughter laughter charge be filed against Mathews Decides to Surrender Captain Hawkins quoted Mathews Mathews Math- Math he thought it over over overall ws as saying before deciding to toive all 11 day Friday give ive himself up Mathews reportedly told the officers he stopped his a automo automobile torno- torno bile immediately after it struck Mr Taylor about p. p m. m Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day on Lincoln avenue between Twenty-first Twenty and Twenty second streets He mingled with the crowd while police investigated I and then went to an Ogden rooming rooming rooming room room- ing house to spend the night po police police police po- po lice said Mathews told officers he had borrowed the automobile and picked up another man and two girls for the joyride After the accident Mathews said his companions companions com corn left the car and fled on foot He told police he saw Mr Taylor but was unable to stop I his car before hitting him al although although although al- al though he was traveling only about 25 miles an hour Tire marks on the street showed the car stopped within 19 feet after the accident police said |