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Show GIRL ORPHANED III AUJO CRASH AMERICAN FORK. Jan. I A 1J-year-old girl waa orphaned here today to-day aa a reault of a Naw Yaar'a ve automobile-train eolliaion which claimed the live of her father and mother. The mother, Mr. Elva Logjton Smith, M, of Pleasant Grove, died early Sunday of Injuriet aha received In the miahap and the father, Wll-lard Wll-lard Slmth. St, waa killed in the crash. Othera Injured In the accident and who are reported recovering are Mra. La land Beer, : George Petcr-aon, Petcr-aon, M. and La Grand Richina, 21. La-land La-land Beera, huaband of Mra. Beera, aaraped uninjured. The accident occurred, investigate investiga-te reported, when Mr. Smith, driver! of the car, backed the machine across, the railroad tracks in the path ot a westbound train, while aeeking a parking place. The train struck the car and knocked It against a pole. Mra. Smith, seated in the front seat with her husband, suffered a fractured frac-tured akull and internal injuries. She was born in American Fork. June 13. loss, the daughter ot Peter . and Susie Wagstaff Logs ton, and was educated in local schools and at the Brlgham Young university. She I taught school In American Fork for eleven years and was married June IS, 1919. in Salt Lake, where she and her husband resided for two vaars. They moved to American Fork and a year and a half ago opened a cafe in Pleasant Grove. Mra. Smith la aurvived by her parents, par-ents, the daughter, two brothers, Roy Logs ton, Los Angelea. and Howard Logs ton. Salt Lake, and three sister, Mrs. Wayne Hansen, Bingham; Mra. John Bruckwalter, Salt Lake, and Mrs. Aria Adams, American Fork. Double funeral services for Mr. and Mra. Smith will be conducted in Pleasant Grove, probably Thursday |