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Show After Gasoline Truck and Auto Collide -S.-Lv-CR07D-PERILED-AS GASOLINE FLOODS STREET AFTER CRASH Explosion Danger Averted When Throng Lured by Truck-Auto Collision Is Hustled Away by Police No serious injuries but the inflammatory threat of more than 4000 gallons of spilled gasoline appeared Saturday on Salt Lake City's traffic accident roster. LUCKILY, NOBODY DROPPED A MATCH AT THIS SCENE I Four thousand gallons of gasoline spilled from this tanker truck i 'I " , , O I! ' ' - L The gasoline flooded the ICS block on Second West street Friday Fri-day night when a tank trailer at the B. J. Allen Oil company waa wrenched from Ite cab and overturned over-turned by a colliding automobile. Firemen and police barred the srea to excited crowds to prevent ignition of ths fluid by a carelessly discarded mstch or clgarst butt Soaking ths gasollns with a shower of sawdust, the firemen hosed ths mixture down ths gutters. One Injured The truck was driven by Ward Dorrity, 34, 43J Fifth avenue, and the automobile by Bea Booth.. 43,1 926 Gennessea street, according to police. Both were charged with reckless driving. ' The only person Injured in the collision was Rial Allen, 24, 233 J street, relief driver, who was asleep in ths cab of the truck when the crash occurred. He was treated at emergency hospital for a deep cut on his right hsnd. Four other accidents appeared en the roster Saturday. Homer Lee Anderson, 30, Woods Cross, was a hit-run victim at Second Sec-ond West and First North streets Friday night when ha stepped out of his csr to crank It A car, which reportedly failed to slacken speed, tore an open door in the Anderson suto off its hinges and dragged Mr. Anderson for 33 feet slong the pavement He was treated at emergency emer-gency hospital for cuts on the head and facs and abrasions on ths legs. Crash Hurts Three Three persons suffered minor Injuries In-juries early Saturday when an automobile au-tomobile driven by Edward T. Col-burn. Col-burn. 18, 709 North First West street went out of control and overturned over-turned against a tree at Center and Fourth North streets. Mr. Colburn received abrasions and contusions of ths right hip and left leg. His passengers, Joe Betts, 20, 582 Center street; Jsck Little-fair, Little-fair, 17, 978 West Second South street snd Emmy Lou Gates, 18. 672 North First West street were cut and bruised. Ths party was treated at emergency hospital. Clyde Miller, 18, 710 Bryan avenue, ave-nue, was treated Friday night at emergency hospital for minor cuts and bruises sfter his motorcycle hsd ContlnueS on Paen Three) 4 Column Two! WRECKAGE OF SEDAN AFTER COLLISION WITH GASOLINE TRUCK This passenger machine overturned big, heavy tanker vehicle. Crowd Periled When Gasoline Floods Street After Crash (Continued from Pace One) been sideswiped on East South Temple street near Twelfth East street by an automobile driven by F. C. Richmond, 1118 South Temple street according to police. Cyclist Die John Edholm, 37. Newhouse hotel, was treated at Salt Lake General hospital Friday night after his automobile au-tomobile had collided at Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh South and State streets with a machine driven by Reed German. Ger-man. 44. 1352 Sherman avenue, according ac-cording to police. The death Friday of N. Henry Honney. 45, cyclist struck Thursday night by a truck, brought the number num-ber of Salt Lake City traffic dead for 1937 to 34, three of th deaths occurring in December. Andrew Baker, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter K. Baker, 866 East Thirteenth South street, suffered suf-fered a possible slight concussion of the brain Saturday afternoon when he reportedly darted into the path of a motorcycle. Traffic Investigator G. M. Hop-kin Hop-kin and E. H. Christeiuen said Theron Wright. 23, 824 Warnock avenue, was riding the motorcycle which struck the boy In the 1400 block of Ninth East street. Andrew was taken to Salt Lak general hospital. |
