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Show Two Hunters Die by Own Weapons; Manager-of-Mine-Grushedio Death- Man Dragged to Doom by Locomotive; Youth Shot in Eye by Stray Pellet; S. L. Clear of Traffic Injuries Violent death held carnival In Utah ever the week-end. Four persona were dead and scores Injured, some critically, criti-cally, alone the railroad, on the hlfhwajr, in the field and underground. DEATH BY SWITCH ENGINE Daniel Foster, 30, negro, at first believed murdered, was dragged to death by a locomotive en siding near Third Writ street and Flerpont avenue. KILLED PHEASANT HUNTING G. Owen Andrus, 37, Ilolladay, and Chester Calton, II, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Calton, Cedar Fort, died by their own guns, which were accidentally discharged. James Christensen, K, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ludwlg Christensen. Grand View, was injured when struck In the ' right eye by a pellet from another hunter's gun near Lake View. DEATH IN MINE ACCIDENT Daniel W. Lynch, (8, 141 Eleventh East street, general manager of the Hidden Treasure Mining It Development company, was crushed to death between a skip and the roof of an incline shaft in the Cliff lease In Dry canyon, north of Ophir. j I CRITICALLY INJURED IN -TRAFFIC J George Dixon, 18, Lay ton, was In serious condition In . an Ogden hospital following an accident north of the Clearfield Clear-field city limits. He was homeward bound from a skating party. But there was one bright side to the week-end picture of death and suffering. Not a single serious injury from traffic was reported in Salt Lake City Itself. A locomotive fatality was chalked up in accident records rec-ords when Investigation disclosed that Daniel Foster, 30, negro, ne-gro, at first believed murdered, was in reality Injured when he was struck by a switch engine at a siding near Third West street and Flerpont avenue. His body wss found early Sun-1 day by Jess Barker, 193 Tenth East street, a night watchman. Badly battered, the man was believed be-lieved for a time to have been beaten to death and an intensive probe was begun by police. However. Dr. Henry Ralle, police po-lice surgeon, said after an examination exam-ination Foster apparently had been dragged. Police discovered a blood-spattered blood-spattered railroad car at the siding, sid-ing, from which a trail of blood led 35 feet across two tracks and to a wire fence, which Foster apparently ap-parently had used for support. Police said Foster doubtless was struck by the engine Saturday night, was dragged alongside the tracks and then tried to crswl for help. D. G. Foster. 732 West First South street, identified the victim and said the latter came here three days ago to take a Job and had planned to "beat" his wsy to the west coast George Dixon. IS. Layton. was In critical condition in sn Ogden hospital hos-pital Monday, suffering injuries received re-ceived when the automobile In which he was riding struck a utility pole north of Clearfiejd city limlta.i late Sunday. ' ( The youth suffered a compound (Continue P" rtv, I lOriumn Six) Variety of Accidents in Utah Over Weekend Claim Four Lives t Continued from PH One) . skull fractur; dislocated hip, and internal injuries. Authorities aald Young Dixon was riding in an automobile driven by Grant Weaver. 1. The driver, swerved to avoid a cow which lumbered lum-bered across the highway and the automobile crashed into a utility Gene Fish. 21. of Copptrf ield. I pitcher for the Gemmell baseball club, was badly dated when bis automobile left the road and went down a 130-foot embankment on the U. S. Mines road near Copparfield Sunday. Fish said ha dosed while driving. pole. Seven other passengers In the automobile, all of whom were returning re-turning home from a skating party, were also injured. They were young -Weaver, Kulow Woo Reed Harris. 18: Pelbert Harris. 18: Bean Adams. 17. and Jack Scofield. it, all of Layton, and Newell Phillips, 18, Kaysvilte. A week-end without a single reported re-ported serious injury in automobile accidents was written into police records Monday. Howard O. Miller. S3, of 18M Eleventh East street, suffered a cut hand when a car he was driving was struck by one operated by J. E. Roebuck. 16, of 640 East Sixth South street, at Seventh East and Seventh South streets. Roebuck was booked on reckless driving charge. Wiley Banks. 46, of 156tt West South Temple street, suffered cuts and bruises when ha was struck by 41, of 63 South West Temple street! at South Temple and First Wast streets. Ellis was booked on charges of driving with improper lights and not giving right-of-way to a pedestrian. pedes-trian. Geneva Hunt. 28, of 18 North Main atreet, suffered acalp wounds when a car driven by Boyd Q. An derson. 26, of Loa Angeles, hit tha rear of a car operated by C. W. Stratum, 61. of tha New Grand hotel, at Seventh South and Main streets. As a 7-month-old girl escaped Injury, In-jury, her mother suffered a bruised leg when a baby carriage was struck by an automobile at West Temple atreet and Broadway. Mrs. Lots Smith. 151 West Broadway, Broad-way, was pulling the carriage, containing con-taining her daughter, Loretta Charlotte Char-lotte Smith, when the carriage waa hit by a car driven by Clifton Roberts, Rob-erts, 113 North Fifth West street The carriage waa knocked against Mrs. Smith. Roberta waa booked on chargea of not yielding right-of-way to a pedestrian. Three persona were hurt when automobiles operated by ElWn Phillips, Phil-lips, 21, of 1515 South Stata atreet, and Delbert Carpenter, 38, of 1204 Hudson avenue, collided at Fourth East and Thirteenth South streets. The injured were Norma Carpenter, Carpen-ter, 22, who suffered contusions; Donna Jean Carpenter, 4, possible shoulder fracture, and Norman Carpenter, Car-penter, 21 montha, cuts. Carol Grow, 4, of 758 Blair atreet, suffered knee contusions when struck by an automobile driven by Ralph Young, 18, of Murray, at Second Sec-ond South and Main streets. Henry Johanaon, 27, of 331S Thirteenth Thir-teenth East street, suffered minor cuta when hia automobile and one driven by Robert L Wilson, 34, of 2394 Eighth East atreet, collided at Twenty-first South and Eighth East streets. f William Callenson. 44, of 153 Edith avenue, suffered bruises when his car collided with another and landed against a utility pole at Ninth South and Second East streets. Police did not obtain tha name of tho other driver. |