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Show ; DAKOTAII DIES VHEIITIIROYil UliDERTRUCK Highway Fatality Raises Utah's 1939 Traffic Toll to 135 Utah'i 1939 traffic toll had been raised to 135 Friday after a South Dakota traveler was crushed beneath wheels of a truck, in Beaver county. The victim was Victor A. Trosln, 33, of Deadwood. S. D., who toppled top-pled from the truck cab his brothed was driving In Wildcat canyon, 12 miles north of beaver. His death was the first traffic fatality this year In that county, compared with three to November 10. 1938. There were three auch deaths for all of last year, making a reduction of 66.8 per cent The state toll compares with 173 In the same period last year, a 21.39 per cent reduction. Victim Falls Beneath Truck Wheels Special to The Telegram BEAVER, Nov. ,10 Victor A. Trosln. 33, of Deadwood, S. D., en route to Riverside, Cel., In a truck loaded with household furnishings, fur-nishings, was killed Thursday aft- AMfwin M'hxn hm Itimned or fell Out of the vehicle and wa run over by Its rear dual wheels. Sheriff Jasper Puffer of Beaver county aaid the accident occurred In Wildcat canyon, 12 miles north of here. The victim was riding In the cab of a truck driven by his brother, Hubert A. Trosin, 21, who lost control of the heavily loaded vehicle. ve-hicle. When the truck started careening from side to side of the steep canyon Victor either fell or jumped from the cab. His brother remained with the truck and escaped injury, although the vehicle overturned. Victor suffered e broken neck, fractures of both legs and internal inter-nal Injuries, the aheriff aaid. The brothers were members of a family moving to Riverside to make their home. Their father, Rudolph Trosin; their mother, Mrs. Mary S. Weber Trosin; another an-other brother and a sister-in-law and the latter couple's son were riding in a passenger car behind the truck. They did not witness the mishap. Besides his parents, the victim tCoaUfUMd on Pas TbrM) (Column Om) DAKOTAII DIES III UTAH CRASH CCoaUaMS Tnm Pan Om) Is survived by seven brothers and three sisters. The body was taken to the Southern Utah mortuary at Beaver to be prepared for burial in Riverside. An aged pedestrian and a youthful youth-ful bicyclist were victims of traffic traf-fic mishaps In Salt Lake City rhursday afternoon and evening. Both were reported recovering Friday. Robert Creery, 78, of 505 Third .venue, struck by a car Thursday evening at Third East and South Temple streets. Is recovering at lt Lake general hospital, where is Is being treated for a deep calp cut and a possible leg frsc- ure. Traffic Investigator T. W. South-vorth South-vorth said the elderly man was valking across South Temple treet when he was struck by a ar driven by Wilbur H. Smith, 26, t 1006 East South Temple street The driver was charged with fating fati-ng to yield the right of way. Twelve-year-old Leland Merrill, on of Mr. and Mrs. Leland H. Merrill, 165 Mead avenue, Is re-overing re-overing at his home from a frao ured collarbone and cuts and ruises suffered "Thursday after-' oon when the bicycle he was rid-ng rid-ng collided with a car driven by ViUlam Johnson, 46, of 1157 Mil-on Mil-on avenue, at West Temple street nd Fayette avenue. Although the truck he was drlv-ng drlv-ng overturned following a million mill-ion Thursday afternoon at Wind-or Wind-or street and Belmont avenue, v. F. Bollschweiler, 40. of 1124 Vlndsor street, escaped injury, lis truck collided with a truck Derated by Henry J. Jorgensen, 2, of 844 Wilmington avenue. |