Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-21 | Page 1 | Car of Friend Kills Printer

CAR OF FRIEND KILLS PRINTER Veteran Typo Struck ' Crossing Street I Chance that brought together two ; friends of long standing also dealt ( death to one when John Silas Rus- ..II . 1Alt , ,CII, VO, , V, .v.u . East Ninlti South street, was fatally Injured as he crossed a street Friday night and was struck by sn automobils report edly driven by a neighbor. George Parker. 65. of 857 McClelland street A train-car crash tarly Saturday left a motorist in a hospital In "fair" condition. U D.....II - - - If - ( m atruck about S Mr. Russell p. m. at Ninth South and Tenth East streets, the driver ssying ha did not see his neighbor until too late to avoid a collision. Mr. Russell had been a printer here for 46 years He was associated until 1034 with the Rocky Mountain Bank Note company. A member of La Grande L D. 8. ward, he bad sung with tha L D. S. tabernacle rhoir in ks presentation of Handel's "Messiah." He was born In Des Moines, Iowa, June 26, 1S69, and Is survived by his widow, two sons, J. Earl snd Harry S. Russell; a daughter, Mrs. Ima Gout, and five grandchildren, all of Salt Lake City After driving into the eighty-first ear of a lot-car Denver Rio Grande Weatern railroad train on Wasatch street in Midvale at 1 a. m Saturday, Elvin L Hughes, 28. of Sandy, was In "fair" condition at St . Mark's hospital. Ha was taken to the Salt Lake general hospital, where he was found to have deep cuts on the head, bruises and Injury to the left eye, . and removed to St Mark's hospital. In the waka of a two-car collision en the Saltair highway Friday that injured 12 persons, J. K. Smith, 41, of 77S Fourth svenue, reported to the sheriffs offics Saturday that his machine had been rammed from the rear by a car that later passed another automobile, then collided i headon with a westbound car. The 12 were injured In a collision ' between cars driven by David Weid- ner, 18, of 1&93 Seventh East street. . and D. W. Barnard, 30. of St John. Weldner's car waa reported as the eastbound machine. , Mr. Smith said that Mrs. J. K. Smith. 39, suffered bruises and that (Mrs. Stina Niison. 432 Third East street suffered severe bumps on the back of the head when the rear window in the car was broken.