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Show BUS CRASH WRECKS POLE Narrowly missing the big plate glass windows of the Bingham Drug and Bingham Meat Co., a Lewis Bros bus, driven by Bert Lewis, crashed into a utility pole, snapping the pole without breaking break-ing the wires and demolishing a small retaining wall in front of the drug store. The accident occurred oc-curred last Friday morning at about 11 a m. Their were no passengers pas-sengers in the bus. According to E. J Householder, Household-er, Salt Lake county deputy sheriff, Mr. Lewis boarded the bus to take it to a nearby service station for refueling when the breaks failed, causing the vehicle ve-hicle to run rampant down Main street- Mr. Lewis zigzagged the bus from curb to curb to slow down its speed and then crashed it into the pole. The bus sustained sustain-ed slight damage as did a delivery de-livery truck for Bingham Meat, which was struck by the bus. The driver escaped injury o |