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Show Couple From California Die Of Injuries in Saltair Crash Elderly Visitors Succumb to Hurts Received Re-ceived in Mishap Tuesday Death on a high speed highway Friday had ended the visit of an elderly California couple who had come to Utah to see the sights. They wers Robert K. Humphrey,' 7, of Yuba City, who died late Thursday, and Mrs. Eva May Humphrey, 72, who died early Friday Fri-day of Injuries suffered Tuesday afternoon In a two-car collision on U. 8. hlghwsy 40 at Saltair. Mr. Humphrey suffered probable fracture of the skull and Mrs. Humphrey Hum-phrey Internal injuries when their eastbound car, driven by their son, : Psul J. Humphrey, 42, turned left onto ths road to ths resort. Ths : Humphrsy car waa struck by a west-1 west-1 bound machine driven by C. W i Grant, 24, of 1044 Fifth East street I who said hs did not sea ths othei k I car becauss it was behind another eastbound machine. Three others were Injured In tbe crash. Mrs. Ruth Humphrey, 27, wife of Paul Humphrey, suffered a bruised hip and cuts and bruises and was In "fairly good" condition at tha Salt Lake general hospital. Mr. Grant was rut and bruised and his passenger, Ed Beard, 31, Richmond, Cal, suffered Injuries to his nose snd foot. Hs was in "fair" condition at ths hospital. Deputy Sheriff J. E. Scheib and Lota Kinney, investigator for the county and district attorneys' (Continual on Pa tfva) IColuma OuaJ .. CRASH INJURIES FATAL TO TWO (Ceattauee frost Page One) offices, aald they would Interview thosa la tha hospital for mora data on tha crash and turn tha Information Informa-tion over to the county attorney ' ta decide on any possible action. Mr. Humphrey waa born July 14. 1M1. In Pennsylvania. A mining . angtoeer for aft years, ha waa employed em-ployed by the Colorado Iron works m Denver 15 years and spent a large part of his lifs with tha Guggenheim Gug-genheim Exploration company In Mexico. Beaidea his son, he Is survived sur-vived by a aiater, Mrs. W. T. Stavely, Shawnee, Okla. Three persona ware Injured and na waa charged with reckless driving driv-ing as result of a two-car collision at State and South Temple streets shortly after I a. m. Friday. E. H. Cameron. 1. of 370 H street was arrested after his car collided with one driven by W. J. Madill. 27, of 23 East Fifth South street They suffered cuts and bruises, as did Peggy Whelan, la, of 72 West Fourth South street. Grant Reed. 18, of 1810 South Red-' Red-' Wood road was charged with reckless reck-less driving after hla automobile Waa alleged to have collided with two cars at Third Eaat and Sixth South atreets at p. m. Thuraday. Driver of one of the other cars Waa Darrell Scheller, 24. of 252 East Ninth South street, while tha third car reportedly waa owned by Francis Fran-cis C Bromley, 712 Ninth East atreet . Struck by an automobile as he Walked across State atreet near Thirty-third South atreet about 6 p. m., Reynolds Cahoon, 77, of 253 Fourth avenue suffered a leg Injury and a head cut, for which he was treated at the Salt Lake general hospital hos-pital The car reportedly waa driven by Lawrence Kitchen, 19, American Fork. Mr. Cahoon was crossing the I atreet to enter his own car. He was taken home after hospital treatment |
